The evening world., 1888-06-25
HOT, ISN'T IT ?
The Town swelters in Spite Of
Promised Cold Waves.
People Dropping or and Chill
dren Suffering Intensely.

In the Street.-The Young Weather Clerk
on the Equitable Building snn Insists
that His Geld Wave II Coming $50 Il
Chrisrmas), aud L. willing to Provo 1t
by Chart.-Hard Times In tho Tenoments.
PercLed in his eyrie on the top Of the
Equitable Building, not a drop Of perspira-
ton on his brow, as cool az q cake of ice and
apparently unmindful Of the fact that men
and animals were dropping dead all about
in the s~uperheated streets Of tho city,
Weather Clerk Dunn received the ~perspIring
EVENING WORLD reporter this morning.
It Is going to be cooler" he said.
How much ?" was the doubling inquiry.
II can't tell that. Already two high ba-
rometers have passed over us without
causing any great reduction in the temper
ture, and now we arc promised another,
which may do better.
at was caught over Lake Superior this
morning. and Tapped its cold wings over
Marquette, Mich. till the mercury vent
down to forty-two degrees.
hope that it will not have lost any OF It's
vigor when 1t reaches New York. which will
be some time within the next twenty-four
hours"
LOCAL RAINS
There were local rains all over the country
last night, but they were in most cases slight
mometers perceptibly.
Alta. M. the Governments instrument on
the Equitable Building registered "a degrees,
but It began climbing the tube with the sun,
and bids fair to beat its record of 81 made
Hudnlt's instrument registered SO degrees
In New Orleans. Jacksonville. Fla, and
even in Galveston, Tex, II is no warmer to-
day than in this city, while in Boston the
bean eaters awoke this morning, after o cool
and refreshing sleep, to find the mercury at
56 degrees.
In Chicago, too, where the hottest kind Of
O hot time Is expected to-day, the metal got
Ths-haat-record oftha-past week shows the
temperature to have been for that time IS
degrees above the normal, as shown by a
record OF years observations.
VERY LARGE DEATH RATE.
So unusual and 10 contant and excessive
has been the heat that the death rate has
The deaths directly attributable to heat have
increased rapidly Sudden deaths without
medical attendance, are reported every few
moments at the Coroners' office. and the
hospital ambulances are kept on the go al
most constantly.
Among those reported to-day who died
from the effects of the heat were;
Thomas Gallagher. aged t~orty-hve. Of 1914
Mulberry street.
Sessions Building, who died at 8 o'clock this
morning.
Annie Nennick. q child, 10 Stanton street.
Mrs. Mimi Tompkins, aged thirty-nine.
go Avenue b.
James Matthews, thlrty-ons. 2ss East
Patrick Criliy, 1888 East Forty-ei h street.
William Dodd, 1907 Third avenue.
Mary Mckay, twenty-eight years, $40 West
Lizzie Mcdonald. aged forty-fve, servant
at 26e West Twenty-second street, dropped
dead in the dining-room.
Hugh Mglroy, aged thirty-two. 4ss West
Fifty second street.
lawrence Rsi., seventy-two years, s6l Eas.
James MoGinn, 1853 West Fifty-second
street.
Annie Gafhgan, al Second avenue.
- Butler, child, 4l5 West Thirty-Ex
Ann Shea, seventy years old. 900 Floral
- Bendel, child, s54 First avenue.
Unknown woman, dropped dead at 216
West Forty-second street:
Undertakers, relatives, friend and
officials passed into the Coroners' office with
these reports and the clerical force was kept
very busy.
OoRoNRRs VERY BUSY.
As It will be necessary to bury the bodies
quickly because of the nature of their death
and the extreme heat, which renders their
keeping extremely unsafe. Coroner Eidman.
who is assigned TO attend To all of the cases.
will have to have the assistance of all of the
physicians of the stan, probably, to properly
dispose of the cases.
BOILED FRoM A ROOF TO DEATH.
Another death which is directly attribu-
table to the heat is that OF Mrs. Elizabeth
Knell, of 1877 Ludlow street. Driven from
her oven-like tenement to the roof to sleep,
she rolled of to the roof Of 1853 and was found
there dead at 8 A. n.
DEATH IN THE
The continued heated term is playing sad
havoc among the children in the tenement
house district. The certificates OF death are
pouring in to-day, and several clerks are kept
busy tabulHtinR them for future reference In
the Bureau of Vital Statistics.
Since Wednesday nearly one hundred per-
son men, women and children-have sue
cumbed TO the heat, 80 per cent. proving
fatal. Up TO noon to-day over one hundred
caused by the heat have been reported. and
1t looks like fully 800 deaths for the day, tho
heaviest for q year.
Last weeks review shows 81 deaths. $50 Of
which were Of children unde FIVE years. the
largest mortality for one day being 249. The
prevailing diseases last week we're scarla-
tina, diphtheria, w~hooping cough, typhoid
fever, heart troubles, phthisis, pneumonia
and kidney affections, all Of which were az
gravaied by the heat.
In closely GRO Sded and lily ventilated ton
ement. houses the deaths last ,week reached
$50, an in rease of nearly two hundred over
the previous week. and In the institutions
there was an equally high death rate.
HORSES OVERCOME.
Great precautions are taken by the several
surface roads TO prevent the loss OF horses.
Relays have cen establiSl ed on near,y all
OF the lines nj intervals Of about a mile, and
II a horse shows evidence of exhaustion the
team Is relieved at the first relay station and
attended TO by a veterinary surgeon.
The Third Avenue road has established q