The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-03
THE HOT WAVE.
Last Saturday the Hottest of the Season
Several Sunstrokcs.

CHICAGO, June 2S.-There are Nc
signs yet of cool wave, which has
been anxiously looked for, and to-day
promises to be more sultry than Friday
The list of people stricken down yes
terday numbers nearly twenty. Two
of the men are dead, and three more
are in the hospital and will not live.
The others are out of danger.
Dispatches from many points in Hi
nois, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin, all
tell of insufferable heat aud many IA
talities.
At Lasalle, ILL.,, yesterday, the mer-
curry reached 102 in the shade. Three
men died from suntroke. All outdoor
work had to be abandoned:
At Galena three persons have died
from the effect of heat in the past two
days, and there is great deal of sick
ness.
Jacksonville rept rts 101 in the shade,
and two men fatally stricken and many
horses dead.
At Joliet the thermometer registered
102, the highest point in twenty-four
years. a dozen people were overcome
and two died.
In Peoria 104 in the shade was
reached. Two deaths occurred, and
several people were overcome.
Danville, Freeport and many other
points report numerous prostration,
and few fatalities.
BURLINGTON, Iowa, June 2S.-The
intense heat has demoraliZed business.
The mercury has gone as high as 106 in
the shade. Reports from surrounding
villages tell of q number of fatal cases
ofsunstroke.
At Watertown, Wis, yesterday, the
temperature was 104. Four people
died from the effects of the heat, and
many others i'll.
THE ROLL OF THE HOT WAVE.
WASHINGTON, June o9.-The signal
service has issued the following special
bulletin:
The temperature continues high from
the middle and lower Mississippi Val
leys to the Gulf, and the middle and
South Atlantic coasts. The mercury is
Il degrees above the normal at Grand
Haven, Chicago and Davenport. The
maximum temperature to-day was l02
degrees at Augusta, 9S degrees at Mont
gOmery, Nashville and St. Louis. The
temperature has fallen II degrees at
Omaha. Relief will be felt on Monday
in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, and
the western portions Of Tennessee and
Kentucky.
CHICAGO BLESSED WITH COOL
BREEZE.
CAICAGo, June 29.-A cool breeze,
beginning late this afternoon, ended
the heated term temporarily. The
breeze did not spring up, however, un-
til the excessive heat had made a record
of eight fatal cases Of prostration since
daylight. A large number Of other
persons succumbed. but up to this
evening no other deaths were appre-
hended. The prec' ding twenty.four
hours marked the elimination, an
almost unprecedented period of warmth
and according to one authority there
were eighteen deaths from sunstroke
and one hundred and seventeen other
cases of heat prOstration, fully dozen
of which are pronounced critical.
Four more deaths were reported up
to midnight, but ell four occurred early
in the day in remote parts ofthe city.
ABRIEF LET Up AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, June 29.-The warm
weather which has prevailed for week
past was checked somewhat this after
ternoon by heavy shower which
cooled off the atmosphere to consid-
cradle extent, but there is still a great
deal Of suffering, as Immediately after
the rain the clouds dispersed and the
sun sent the thermometer uD to the
one hundred mark again. Yesterday
the list Of prostrations number thirty
one, eight resulting fatally. Up to II
o'clock tonight eleven prostrations are
reported, two fatal.