The evening world., 1890-08-01
IT is KILLING HEAT.
FiV1 Deaths and an Attempt al Sui
eide Reported Day.
Untold Suffering In the Crowded
Tenement Dis'r.ct,.
Cooler Weather Promls, d Tonight
by Uncle Sans Weather Bureau.

The intolerahle hcnt is causing untold
suffering 20 tho crowded population of
Gotham.
Al 3 o'clock this morning tho mercury
in Biakely's tele-thermometer registered
80 degrees of heat; at 0 O'Clock, 80 degrees;
at there was recorded 80 degrees, at neon
81 degrees, and ut U clock 1t still stood
at the ~ mark.
The person who could catch q wink of
sleep during the long hours Of last
night, whom the city was envel-
oped in astifling. smothcring atmosphere,
which seemed 10 become all the more
heavy and depressing after the sun won't
down, was lucky, indeed.
Most denizens of the town tossed and
sweltered in their beds till daylight with
out getting q moments relief, and a
general despair was manifested in the
faces of those who made their way to
their business early this morning over the
sun-baksd ravementb.
Hot highs do more than anything else
TO increase the city's death rate, and last
night was one of the kind that makes un-
dortakers busy.
In some parts OF the town the mercury
did not fail below SO during the entire
night, while the relative humidity for the
twenty-four hours. ending at 5 o'clock
this morning, averaged ~ per cont. :.
This IL something extraordinary, almost
unparalleled. i'll fact. and there is no
wonder that prostrations from the exces-
sive heat were numerous and that sickness
WINS rampant everywhere.
Reports from the police and the hos
pitfalls this morning show TINT the number
of fatal prostrations has largely increased,
and to-dny's record, if the hot wave con-
tinues 10 get in its deadly work, will
bo unprecedented.
One of the victims reported is Rev. James
Trainor, priest in 81. Joseph's Catholic |
Church in Pacific street, Brooklyn, who
died last night at tho Cumberland Street |
Hospital from the effects Of a sunstroke. |
Annie Blumenscheid. twenty seven |
years old, OF 400 East Eleventh street, ate |
lot OF Paris green last night and was |
taken to Bellevue Hospital at 2 A. NJ. a
very sick woman.
The girl is single and n servant.
Wednesday she helped her sister to get |
out the family wash in the yard and |
stood with unprotected head In the hot |
sun. Yesterday she complained of severe
headache and showed symptoms OF sun
stroke.
1t was in fit of despondency brought
by her sufferings that she took the
poison.
An unknown man about s5 years old
was brought to the Higlbridge police
station at II. Go o'clock this morning un-
conscious.
He was found in vacant lot near One
Hundred and Sixty-frst street and Jerome
avenue suffering from hunstroke. An
nm bulnnce WaH RummOned bnt he dad
before its arrival.
Michael Whalen. 46 years old. died
from the effects OF the heat at his home.
15 Stanton street.
John Mann. aged sixty.two, died sud.
denly at $50 at his home. l23 Spring
street. from the heat.
John Collins, twenty-Seven years old,
rolled on the roof of "a Cortlandt street,
where he slept to avoid the heat early this
and was killed by the fail.
Joseph kigler, a twelve year-old boy,
driven ont Of his house by the heat,
dragged a mattress ont on the sidewalk at
/ A. NJ. and WAS arrested for II. At Essex
Market Court he was released with a
reprimand.
II was just as bad in all the suburban
towns. and at Peekskill II is repor ed TO
be SO hot that many of tue soldiers at the
State EneGnpment were prostrated dur
ing the night.
THE last twenty four hours have been
by far the worst ON record this season."
sad Sergt. Dunn this morning, "Espe-
cially last night, when the temperature
higher and more uniform than
IN any night on record for several years
past.
The temperature at 8 o'clock this
morning was one degree higher than il
was yesterday at the same hour, and con-
Iinued to rise for some time afterwards;
but l think can promise cooler weather
before night
1T is cooler this morning in all parts Of
the country north of New York City and
lll through the lake region. At Boston 1t I
was ten degrees cooler this morning than
yesterday.
THE wind was blowing from the =
early this morning. but now II
las shifted around 20 the northwest. and
his ought TO bring the cool wave down
lpOn Us before night. New York Just
missed getting II this morning.
My Thermometer showed s2 degrees
u 10 A. NJ. and now il is 81, which shows
hat It Is already cooling OF little.
With the wind blowing SlX miles an hour
I ought soon to give us some relief
" The In lcAtlons are for fair weather l
md q cool wave in the next twenty four I
hours. The cool spell, however. will be \
,nly of short duration, for the Wes' ern
Iart OF the country, which has had Q ,ol /
Weather for the past three DAYS. is now
lohlils up again. Auu PROBABLY Dy sun 1
lay We shall catch IL again.
The official reports show that the tenn
'eTature at Az. at Boston was 7s de
rees, AZ PHILADELPHIA aud Washington
2, Chicago Gs, 81. Louis rs. New Orleans
Hudnuts Thermometer registered ss at
A. NJ ami 81 at IL A. NJ, which with ~
er cent OF relative humidity made
hings about as uncomfortable for those
rho were obliged to be abroad. as it was
ossible 10 be.
GothAmitss. will be thankful for any
slisf from the present torrid heat, and
sTRt. Dumas prediction Of . cool. pleas
Mt night will put courage into thou
andE.
Oatmeal water, RinGeT-als and iced tea,
re wonderfully popular beverages Just
oW, although some individuals with cast
'on stomaehs can and do drink beer with
npunity.
SOda water and fancy mixed drinks n
ome IN for . share OF public patronage, =
at the multitude regard them with sus- 4
teton. believing them 10 be I snaFe and z Q
slusiou 70 tina thiFEtV man