New-York tribune., 1885-07-23
PRICE THREE CENTS
THE HEAT MODERATING,
NO INCREASE In RATE OF MORTALITY
| SUFFERING AND DEATHS FROM sUNsrRoKR-TwBNTY1
ONE CASES RKPoRTRD.

sUfsEhIN0 AND DEATHS FROM eUNsTROxR-TwBN1YS
ONE CASES RKPoRTED
The tropical heat still hung over the city
yesterday though sliGhty moderated and the ustre,
oils was done to turn By nRhtfal The fear q ~
fastdious Frenchmen captured by the King Of Dshousy
that they would nos bs wen cooked wss
not shared By tho citizens Of New.Yers
Every ono who moved about the streets
was certain that be was nt only to bs served mp
roast or ragout after the walk To the Inhabitants oe
the crowded tenement districts the aborers forced -
work In the sum- however the heat joke To Sons
of them 1t meant DEATH to al suffering. Though not -
intense - on the previous day. the people debtated
BY the heat Of the previous days felt Il almost much
The thermometer ut the Signal Service Station on the
Equitable Building registered 92e between and p n.
At g. m. It registered 79s. The highest temperature
registered by Hudnurs thermometer 92e at p N.
At Sandy Hook the breeze scarcely rendered bearo
. temperature Of 90e.
The FREQ baths along the river fronts filed al
day and the visitors thereto found grateful relief from
the heat in the cool waters The Battery about -
comfortable place there In the city, and bust
ness men passing along its breezeswept walks enved
the lightly clad tramps who did nothing all day but dc
In the shade and let the gentle breszcs venate thsR
tattered garments
Despite the continuance Of the hot weather the death
rate has not increased greatly in the CITY, The numbar
Of deaths reported at the Bureau Of Vital Statistics
yesterday was l5l, while on Tuesday 1Go death.
the night were reported to the police yes
terday morning and were attributed to tho
heat: Mary Duffy age eightysix. OIL No. 81 Columbia.
ST. William Norbert, thirteen years Of at No. SIT
sec0ndave and Andrew q. Sandborn, thirty eight,
at No. 5O4 bec0ndave. Mary Carr, servant at No. 100
West Twenty ninhst, dropped dead while at work In
the morning
Hannah Burns living at No. 1sI Lndiowst, left hef
bed before daylight aud went to sleep at fth-sory
window. She fell out ana fractured her skull.
Thomas Wright, an engineer of No. 504 West Fifty
ffh-st died the effects Of sunstrokc ecve nth
ave. and One-hundred-ani-fifty-four
An unknown mau apparently about thirty years old,
fell dead at St. Nicholas-ave aud Onc-hundred-and-
thirty.seventh-st
the heat sent to hospitals or hoE.es.
Ten persons, one OF them letter carrier, were
reported overcome by the heat In Brooklyn yester-
day. James Middleton nftythree Of No. 316 Frank.
lnaye, Frustrated by the heat at Coney Island aud
died In q short time.
Mrs. Jane Barnes. age sixty, Of sevcnthst.. Long
Island City, the VI Mrs. McKenna Ferry.
St. last evening, aud asked permission 10 lie down. She
died IL q few moments from effects Of the heat
CROPS DAMAGED IN THE CATAwIssA VALLEY.
SHENANDOAH, Penn, July 22.-One Of the
most terrific and destructive rain and wind storms
witnessed in this section passed the Caiawisss
Valley yesterday afternoon, dealing out destruction Ia
farm houses and crops The rain which fell in torrents
was preceded by o violent hurricane, which uprooted
and blew fences and barns In It's tn. The
oats and wheat crops especially suffered, several
fine deds being levelled by the wind and submerged by
the food The damage to the crops alone In the valley
is estimated at $4,000.