New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-08
ANOTHER DAY OF SUFFERING
EFFECT OF THE HEAT DEADLY.
OVER FIFTY CASES OF sUNsTgoKE AT THE HOS
PITALs-THIRTEEN PERSONS DIE.

OVER FIFTY CASES OF sUNsTR0KE AT THE HOS
PIrALs-THIRrEEN PERSONS DIE.
In spite Of the rain which fell on Thursday night,
and III spite of the wind which blew at an average
velocity of ten miles an hour throughout the
day. the heat in the streets of the city yesterday
was greater by two degrees than anything New-York
| has suffered this year. In the lower part of the
city, indeed the wind made little difference to the
temperature for it stayed casually about the
streets as If it had lost its way, and was hot
and heavy with continual contact of the heated
alls. Farther up town, however from Fifty
ninth-st. EDWARDS, there was q pretty strong
breeze so strong that tho dirt swirled in clouds
up Fifth-ave, and in the more ex-
posed portions of the Central Park
people turned their backs to the wind and chung to
their hats with their hands. But nowhere was 1t
cold wind; scarcely even a cooling one for 1T had
come to New-York from the southwest. and there
the country 1T had been blowing over was almost
hot and dry as the city itself Last nights reports,
however speak OF the mercury as falling both to
the sonth and west and there is every reason to
believe that the worst of the heated term has
passed.
THE ENERyATING EFFECTS OF TIE WEATHER
The terrible amount Of suffering that has already
been caused by the heat of the last days is told in
the long lists of sunstrokes not few fatal and many
very serious. But apart from its actual heat each
uccsssive day of heated term is far more danger
GUS than Its predecessor for it finds the people al
ready eDervated by earlier struggles. SO it was
that the weather Yesterday seemed much hotter in
comparison with that of Wednesday than the two
degrees of actual difference warranted. 1t almost
felt as ii the entire accumulated sunshine of the last
six days was lying about the Streets and few would
have been disposed cavll if the thermometer had
registered the whole sum total of 500 or So instead
Of the bare 90. Tho actual readings at
various times during tho day of
Hudnuts Thermometer were as follows: At 3 a. M,
76o; IA. m, TO; a. m, 80; 12m., 500; $3.50
p. m, 80; u p. m, 90; and D. m, $50. At the
Signal Service Station on the Equitable Building,
90 was the best the mercury could do. thereby the
lead which Hudnuts instrument has held for the
last week increased by two degrees. and if the
signal Service officers mean TO get along
side again they will have to light fire
underneath their tube. or keep it standing
all day in boiling water Professor Diapers
instrument. at tho Arsenal in Central Park,
content to jog along respectable second. for
Yesterday it got up to 90 we'll enough aud then
stopped therefore degrees in front of the Signal
Service and three behind Hudnut While the Their
mometers, however. were squandering their time
IN wrangling such small differences, the
people in the streets only knew that 1t was
great deal too hot and SO It might well be- for all
hese readings wero IN tho shade, and IA tho sun
light there were rs many az l47o OF heat IN the
carly afternoon beng l2o more than registered
at the hottest moment of the Fourth.
HOTTER WEATHER IN HISTORY.
In spite of the terrible heat yester-
lay, however. was by no means the
worst day Neu-York has known; 0oo and go
have not been at all nfrequent Of late years, while
~ 1922 the mercury on one occasion got into three
}. 100 - t.1 . ,af /. IA
point of lOi in the shade Eleven years ago, too,
IA the violent heated term Of 1872 the very Same
week of tho year showed n slightly higher
vcrage temperature than It has produced this year,
hough on no single day then was anything higher
naIkcd than 0JS. But no amount OF comparison
An now make yesterday any cooler than II was.
md il il a mean triumph at beat TO gbe at the city
u eleven years ago because 1t WAS oven moro I'M
-omiortablo then than now.
THRcNGs AT THE FREE BATHS
The free baths were thronged from early morning
mil the hour Of closing. many, owing to the
tfeat press waiting hours for their
mn. At .he Battery In the afternoon
.herc was a uarrov escape from what might have
proved serious accident. he gaugway leading
the barge projects nearly foot above the single
pseo beneath several small 'b boys got wedsed
It this point aud il WAS only 10y vigorous use OF
his camel bat tho policeman IN charge drove back the
crowd which, after the usual manner OF
rowd. was pnshing on regardless of the
dangerous position OF tho boys Beyond some
Gather severe bruises no one was seriously injured.
there were upward OF 5000 men
ana boys who awaited themselves of
thc FREQ bath at the Battery and nearly many
-oolcd their heated bodies IN the uptown baths. A
great crowd besrged the bath nc the foot of Duane
C.. hundreds Oeiug turned away during the day.
FABULOUS QUANTITIES or IcE-wATER DRUNK.
In hot term thoughts turn readily to
cooling drinks. std somewhat heated fancy
sumated yesterday that enough ice-water was
trunk last week to float tho American Navy.
In the last few days perhaps 600 people have
lad drink al the Moderation SOcety's free Ice
water fountain alone. IN front OF the Post Office.
While mt every lemonade stand. beer saloon soda
fountain aud wine room drinking nas been ncessant
he drinking 10 not confined the human family,
.ithcr, fOl the keepers Of the Central Park
.nenagene say that the beasts were all drink
ng double quantities of water and turning up their
hoses at good honest flesh and blood.
STORM IN THE EVENING.
Toward evening yesterday tho conventional
thunderstorm made its appearance. and in rather
better time than usual Ii performed. however in
"A perfunctory way. and seemed anxious to get it
over as quickly as possible. At about halfpast
the clouds swept up. but they were second-rate
clouds ana did not give much promise OF heavy
Storm. Then. almost without warning. the rain
began and for few minutes 1t had all the
appearance of really irst-class article; for the
rinnder-olaps broke so quickly upon each !
ntng time to get ont of tho way |
in between and the ram fell in very buslncss-ike
way Ii was of short duration, howav"r, and by |
o'clock there noihing of 1T left but the wet |
streets and cooler ar.
Ibe larger hospitals kept several ambulancss |
going mill "A late hour last evening. and thirteen |
fatal cases OF sunstroke were reported |
Uefore 8 p. m. At Chambers Strret Hos
pItal moro than dozen cases were
brought in although only one death occurred,
the patient OK pirng before the ambulance arrived.
At Bellevue the ambulance service was very heavy
and i'm spite of the number continually employ ed,
there was need Tor more. several calls often
coming at about tho same time. Those
who we're exposed to artificial heat such as
cooks engineers fremen and bakers, were In
especial peril aud in many instances were obliged