The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-02
CHICAGOS BRIEF RESPITE.
FURIOUS RAIN STORM sLIGHTLF
COOLS THE AIR.

The Relief. However. lie Oniy Temporary
TWENTY-FIVE Cases of PrOstrRuon Yes
terday-eO.OOO People Suffering from tho
Enects OF tho Extraordinary Weather.
CHICAGO, July IA furious rain storm short
~ after midnight this morning gave Chicagoits
first chance to take long breath In eight days
Water fell In sheets and within ton minutes
the cutters were rushing torrents. The pave
ments were so hot from the roasting they Lad
been getting that the water which rushed over
Thorn was as warm as that which is dipped out
OF boiler on wash days. The temperature
dropped into the seventies, and when the sun
came up a refreshing breeze was blowing from
tho west For few hours 1t looked as though
the backbone OF the roast had been broken
but as the day wore on the mercury began to
rise until It reached So in the street Their
mometers. There was q steady rise In hu-
mildly, too, and persons who faced the sun felt
the Same oppression and exhaustion that ac-
companied tho past heat Tho cool breeze
from the west, however. served to Keep the
casualties down to the smallest list recorded
in nine days.
Up to 6 o'clock this evening only two fatal
cases OF heat stroke had been reported. Maggie
Boyle 80 years old. died In bed. and J. W.
Clarke. whose homo Is unknown. died soon
after leaving cab In front OF the Farwell
House. There were other prostrations in the
city, many OF the victims being in critical
condition. Three letter carriers fell over dur
ing the morning. and 1t Is thought two OF them
cannot live.
The work OF moving the dead animals about
the city has been pushed with great energy all
day. Over 800 swollen bodies OF horses have
been shipped from the city since the heated
torn began. and 1t is estima ted that 200 more
are lying in the streets and alleys. These will
hafOrA morrow
animals fell to-day, but their number ID Small
compared With previous days ,u,. :. ,.,. =
clear sky and delightful breeze blowing II ON
the prairies. but It is probable that to morrow
toward the west Is burning up under the
glnrinG sun. ., =
over western NebrasKa registering, 1910 on
the barometer. but It's area is SO insignificant
that Lieut. Beale OF the signal service has no
expectation that II will survive to carry ii 6O'
Of Temperature to this longitude The storm
| or low centre with a 1880 barometer Is hang
| ton and TO- Between these extremes high
| temperature and parched area prevails which
cannot for the present be relieved except by
i WI be hotter to.morroYi and i, may be
| will be varied only by local showers. II the
British Columbian 3J.lo barometer gets here
Weathe eq and ne our latent heat viii be liberated
| but Ii it dies on the way, then our hot weather
will continue until cold wave does con, come: ,i we
| We cannot have healthy weather until this eX-
| cessive humidity is cleared away, and We can
| not have a better barometer and dryer atmos-
| nbere until the Northwest brings us a high
| Barometer with its low temperature all the
| way from the mountains.
! On Monday the applications for burial per-
| mis- reached lS9 and to-day over 100 anplica-
lions came 70 the office before o'clock; Should
this rate be sustained Chicago WI! have
it, history. The number OF deaths last week
was 3SR At the rate the record is piling up this
| week il will reach about 800. II the gloomy
| forecast Of the signal Office is verified to-mor-
row the city will DO heavily taxed TO take care
and the hundreds OF decAying animals lying in
the streets and alleys. DR.. q. Frank Lydstan
estimates that 10000 persons are sutlering
present time. There .wero twenty-five pros
| trations In the city to-day.