New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-13
GoOD.BY TO THE HOT WAVE.
,,,pRECATIoNs HEAPED ON IT AS IT WENT.
COOLER WEATHER INDICATED-DEATHs AND
PRosTRATIoNs FROM THE HEAT

ooo1ER WEATHER INDIOATED-DEATHs AND
PRosTRATIoNs FROM THE HEAT.
The hot wave which for three days has been
~. unwelcome guest of New-York and its vicinity
senarted yesterday afternoon on it's eastward
tourney. No friends in chartered yachts accom-
ronied il down the Bay 10 Sandy Hook 10 see it
"A II was allowed TO go in peace followed
-, the Irishman's benediction, And be blowed
10 you!'
AZ O'Clock yesterday morning the temperature
reached so degrees At 5 p. M. it had climbed to
90 degrees in the Weather Bureau, though Hud-
nuts and Perry'S thermometers showed still higher
sSures. The humidity was between so and S4'
There had been a pleasant breeze all night, in
c,easinc I'D to 3 O'Clock yesterday afternoon 10
fourteen miles an hour But meanwhile thun-
6erstorm had been slowly gathering in the south
west. and was moving toward the northeast Kam
beOan falling shortly after p. M. the wind IN
o,oosed 20 a velocity Of twenty-four miles an hour,
and the temperature dropped within fifteen minutes
60 "a DEGREES Little rain fell in New-lork city,
hut seaward the clouds indicated a storm Of con-
siderable severity, with much wind.
The Weather Bureau officers predict for to-
Aov q temperature that will not rise above the
upper seventies
When the first section of the storm yesterday
o,,srnoon had passed and the rain ceased, the
shv remained overcast. In the rest of the after
noon and evening there were occasional periods
~ SLIGHT rainfall. The same conditions are prom
ised for to-day.
The heated area Of the past few days east Of
the Mississippi River is gradually yielding to the
influence of the cooler currents which started
in the extreme Northwest Sunday, and which
have been moving over Montana, the Dakotas,
Minnesota and Wisconsin The temperature has
fallen from 10 TO Is degrees within twenty-four
hours in the States Immediately south Of the
Great Lakes and the tendency is still downward.
Yesterday therefore worked the elimination of
the recent heated period. which will be remem-
bered as one causing unusual distress because
of the humid condition of the atmosphere.
There was a decided falling off in the number
of stastrokes in the city yesterday, the following
cases being reported by the police
George Metzger thirty four years old. laborer, Of
No. 452 West FiftySecOnd-st, sent 10 the Roosevelt
Hospital from Tenth-ave and seventy nnth-st.: Lena
Bidley thrtytwo years old. Of No 267 Yorh-st, Jer-
sey City, attended by an ambulance surgeon in the
City Han Park and sent TO her home: Emile Dmck-
stof thirty nine years old Of No. 217 Middleton St..
Brooklyn, sent TO the New York Hospital from sew
enthave and Twenty -slNtlst Patrick Golden forty
three years DID, of No 1.552 Firstave., from No. 40
Frankfor-st 10 the Chamber, Street Hospital Thomas
Hand sixty five year, oil, residence unknown sent from
No j7o BrOOne 81. u Vincent Hospital, iEsens1Oe
Sister Adelaide Ressey, Of the 81. JOseph's Hospital,
overcome in front Of No. 123 East Twenty -eghths
and taken 10 Bellevue Hospital. Emil Schroeder. q
butcher overcome at First ave: ana Forty fourth
taken to Bellevue Hospital; William d. McClelland,
siXtyeight years Old. Of No. Il East seventy first.
overcome No. 207 BoweIy, taken 70 Gouveneur Hos
ptal.
Patrick DOnohue thirty-fve years old, whose homo
was said to be in Thirty ,eventhst.. was prOstraed
with the heat at No. Is West Twenty veghth-st yes
terday. and sent to the NewNork Hospital. where
he died
James Woods. waiter. foTty-fve years old, died
suddenly from the heat in Parhers Restaurant, at
No. Asa SiXth-ave.. where he employed. His
home at No. 81 West Thrtleth-st.
Patrick ROrke, f0rty-tive years old of No. 33s
Beecerst. died from the heat in the butter store at
No. l72 ChurelHst.. where he was at work.
John Keogh fhrfyslx wears Old q laboFer, was
Ssercome by the heat Yesterday afternoon in front
dNo. 2,4S3 Third-ave, his home and died last ght.
William Fusil, eight weeks old died from the effects
the heat Yesterday at No 3S2 Beecker-st.
Thomas Welsh, forty y-one years old die1 yesterday
nom heat prostratiOn at his home No 500 second ave
Frederick Schmidt. forty five years old. letter
carrier. died at Clifton $ L. yesterday from the heat
Coroner Martin Hughes will hold an inquest.