The evening world., 1890-08-01
PlTo Deaths AMI an Attempt at Sui.
eide Reported To-Day.
Untold Suffering In the Crowded
Tenement Districts.
Cooler weather Promised To-Nia hit
by Uncle Sans Weather Bureau.

At o CLOCK this morning the mercury
in Blakely's tele.thermometer registered
so degrees Of heat at o'clock. so degrees;
at there was recorded s5 degrees, at noon
9l degrees, and at o'clock it still stood
at the 81 mark.
The person who could catch wink Of
sleep during the long hours Of last
night, when the city was envel-
oped in astiflinR. smothering atmosphere,
which seemed 10 become all the moro
heavy and depressing after the sun went
down. was lucky, indeed.
Most denizens of tile town tossed and
sweltered in their beds till daylight with
out getting q moments relief. and q
general despair was manifested in the
faces of those who made their way to
thoir business early this morning over the
sun-baked pavementS.
Hot nigh do more than anything else
to increase the ciiy's death rate, and last
night was one Of the kind that makes un-
dertakers busy.
III some parts OF the town the mercury
did not fail hollow SO during the entire
night. while the relative humidity for the
twenty-four hours. ending at 5 O'Clock
this morn ng, averaged ~ per cent.
This IL sonnet hing extraordinary. almost
unparalleled. in fact. and there is no
wonder that prostrations from the eIces-
Sive heat were numerous and that sickness
was rampant everywhere.
Reports from the police and the hos
pitals this morn ng show that the number
Of fatal prostratiuns has largely increased,
and to.dny's record, II the hot wave con-
tiuues 10 get n its deadly work, will
be unprecedented,
One Of the victims reported is Rev. James
Trainor, q priest in st. Josepn's Catholic
Church in Pacific street Brooklyn, who
cd last night at the Cumberland street
Hosp tai from the effects of Il sunstroke.
Annie Blumenscheid. twenty-seven
years old, oil i32 East Eleventh street. ate
lot OF Paris green last night and was
taken to Bellevue Hospital at 2 A. M. a
very sick woman.
The girl j. single and 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.
It was in fit of despondency brought
by her sutferings that she took the
poison.
An unknown man about 35 years old
was brought to the Highbridge police
station at II. 65 o'clock this morning un.
conscious.
He was found in q vacant lot near One
Hundred and Sixty-frst street and Jerome
avenue suffering from sunatroke. An
ambulance was summoned. but he died
before itR arrival.
!, Michael Whalen. IS years old. died
from the effects OF the heat at his home,
is Stanton street.
John Mann. aged sixty.two. died sud.
denly AT $50. AT hts home, 1913 Spring
street. from the heat.
John Collins. tweuty-Reven years old,
rolled of the roof of "a Cortlandt street,
where he alept e. avoid the heat. early this
morning and WAS killed by tho fall.
Joseph Rigler, a twelye-year-o boy.
driven out Of his house by the heat,
dragged mattress ont on the sidewalk at
A. N. and was arrested for it. At Essex
Market Court he was released with q
reprimand.
towns aud at Peeksklll II il repor ed to
be so hot that many of tue soldiers at the
State Encanpnent were prostrated dur
ing the night.
by far the worst ON record this season. I"
SAID SerGt. Dunn this morning, "Espe-
oially last night. when the temperature
EeIlhlu6N nlEueT lnhD
ON any night on record for several years
past,
The temperature at 9 O'Clock this
morning was one degree higher than il
was yesterday at the same hour, and con-
tiuued to rise for some time afterwards; ;
but think can promise cooler weather
before night.
the country north of New York City and
all through the lake region. At Boston it
was ten degrees cooler tLls morning tnan
yesterday.
The wind was blowing from the
southeast early this morning. but now 1t
has shifted around TO the northwest. and
this ought TO bring tho cool wave down
upon us before night. New York just
missed getting 1t TINS morning.
My thermometer showed s2 degrees
at 10 A. NJ. aud now it 81, which shows
that II is already cooling of a little.
With the wind blowing six miles an hour
It ought soon to give us some relief.
The in icatIons are for fair weather.
and a cool wave in the next twenty-four
hours. The cool spell. however. will he
only of short duration, for the Wes ern
part OF the country, which has had c ol
weather for the past three dAvs. is now
heating up again, and probably by sun
day We shall catch il again.
The official reports show that the tenn
perAture AZ Am. AZ Boston Was rs de-
grees, at Philadelphia aud Washing RtOn
50, Chicago 6s, st. Louis IS, New Orleans
7s
Hudnut's Thermometer registered ss at
s A. NJ. and 81 at IL A. NJ. which with ~
per cent. OF relative humidity made
things about as uncomfortable for those
who were Obliged TO be abroad. as it was
possible TO be.
GothamiteG, will be thankful for any
relief from the present toTIid heat, ami
SsfRt. Dunp's prediction of q cool. pleas
ant night will put courage into thou
sands.
Oatmeal water. ginger-als and iced tea,
are wonderfully popular beverages Just
now. although some ind VlduAls with cast
IRON stomachs oan and do drink beer with
impunIty.
Sofa water and fancy mixed drinks
come in for a share OF public patronage,
hut the multitude regard them with sus-
piclun. believing them TO be a snare and a
delusiun to the thirsty man.
The COusy Island and RockAwAy boats
are preparing for general exodus of citI-
Zens this evening. and from the outlook
At noon they Will not be disappointed.
Prostrstions Reported To-Day.
Patrick Tuliy. a carpenter, thirty ave
yeara old, oil 2IS Fifth avenue. Brooklyn,
was overcome BY the heat at noon to-day
AZ AtAnlie avenue. near Third. 81.