Telegram-herald., 1890-07-02
THE SULTRY Sun.
MONDAYS RECORD OF PROSrRarIOsS
ne Dssth-Ikst ia Various Localities
Daily Growing LoaEsr-H Hundreds AZ
AziNsls hitisd-f4rners More
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DEATHS FIERN AGENT.
CHICAGO. July The thermometer
reached It's highest point Monday az 5
o'clock p IA, when Il registered 20 de-
grees above zero Five fatal cases Of
prostEation by heat were reported.
twenty i've likely 70 prove fatal, and
twenty-seyen of less serious char
acter.
Since June 2S there have been re-
ported 10 the ooroners orfice ifty-siK
deaths, all of them resulting from heat
prOstratlon-
One week more Of this murderous
weather and Chicago can not escape an
epidemic of some kind. Hundreds Of
animals are 10 an advanced state OF de-
composition in the streets AMI alleys
They have not been moved since they
dropped dead Dead horses are lying
in the business district The stencil
from the alleys is sickening. Ii is esti-
mated that hundreds of dogs and eats
have boen killed by the heat while
the mortality among the horses ana
cows has been SO great that the health
department has been unable 10 handle
them Men are paid their own prices
for performing this work. Dead anil
mails are shipped 10 Globe Station, near
the Indiana State line, where they are
handled by rendering establishment
The rush Of SO many decomposing car
casses has prostrated all the employees
at the place, and three carloads of dead
horses are now lying in the blazing sun
on a side-track at Globe Station.
BEARnsTowS, Ill, July William
Bell, aged 40. was found dead on the
street Sunday afternoon. Overcome by
the heat
DECATUR, III. July David Logan,
| aged ~. resident OF Macon County
since 1853. died Monday. He was pros
trated by heat.
JOLIET, Ill, July Last weeks
fatalities in Joliet exceed those of any
/ previous week.ever known. The Their
mometer ranged as high as l09 degrees.
Farmers complain of unparalleled loss
/ Of live stock. Contrary TO expectations
/ the heat does not seriously affect the
| convicts at the prison. Although
the heat is intense in the yards
the shops are kept cool by fans AT the
rolling-mills the prostration has been
most severe, the men giving out in grea at
numbers. Work on buildings and in
the quarries has been stopped. Several
factories have closed until change OF
temperature takes place.
TUSCoLA, H., July 1.-During the
last three days over twenty horses have
dropped dead from heat in the fields
and many farmers have ceased plowing
under the sultry sun and work by moon.
light. The mercury hovered about the
100 degree mark Monday.
WooDsrocK, H., July THE ex
cessiye heat still prevails. Two men
died here Monday of sun-stroke.
RocKrORD III, July 1.-The excess
lively warm weather of the last few
DAYS has resulted in a milk famine
Cattle lie painting in the Shade and re
fuse to eat, diminishing the supply tC
such an extent that dealers find il
simply impossible to supply their Gus
toners.
CAIRO, H., July This month ha,
been the hottest ever known here, anC
the fatalities from the heat have eX
ceedcd any ever recorded Five deaths
have occurred in the last ten days, thre,
of which occurred in the last twenty
four hours.
ST. Louis, July Mondays list o
prostrations from the heat numbered
eight two of them fatal.
CINCINNATI, July Fourteen or IF
teen cases of sun-stroke were reported
here Monday. Three of them resulted
fatally.
FoRT WAYNE, Ind, July Mrs
Bridget Murphy was sun-struck Sunda,
Four other cases occurred, but none o
them turned out fatally. The ther
mometer ranged above 100.
MILWAUKEE. July Five death
from sun-stroke we're reported at th
health Office Monday, all of them vic
tins of the extreme heat OF Saturda.
and Sunday. This makes a total o
fifteen deaths from the heat within
week. But three prostrations from tn
heat were reported Monday. Although
cooling breeze prevailed all afternoon
the temperature reached * degrees.
heavy shower in the evening was fol
lowed by cooler weather
KANSAS CITY. Mo. July 1-Fron
June 90 10 June % there were sixty
two deaths in Kansas City. forty-tw
OF which were of children under year
Of age. OF this latter mum Der thirty-si.
died Of cholera infantum
An Immense Ditch.