Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-12
TT WAS A HOT DAY.

Several Persons PrOstrated .- Five Hundred Mo1ders Stop Work Tor the Day-A Humid Atmosphere Another Hot Day To.Day-C6oIer To.Morrow.
 The heat of yesterday was almost un- endurable, made so by the fact that there was hardly breath of wind stirring. There were two persons overcome by the heat. John Hayden of 32 Market street fell from his wagon overcome by the heat and was taken to the hospital and city laborer in the Annex, who was working on the streets, was also overcome. Friends of the latter were summoned and brought him to his house in the city in @ carriage. Both men will probably recover. About 200 molders at Sargent's and about 300 others at different places who went to work in the morning were com pelled to stop work for the day on account of the heat. .fz=. OVERCOME BY THE HEAT. Thomas Mansfield, teamster employed by the city in carting stones from the quarries near Foxon, was prostrated by the heat yesterday and taken to his home.
 ON THE OLD GREEN.
 About 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon a young girl, whose name could not be learned, was overcome by the intense heat while seated on the green. She recovered after short time and was able to walk to her home.
 TRYING TO KEEP COOL.
 An interesting sight was that last even- ing at Tomlinson's draw bridge. There on the bridge over the channel of the two rivers, were people of all sizes, ages and classes enjoying the cooling breeze which swept over the bridge. There were aged men, women and baby carriages, boys and young couples. All found it one of the coolest spots in New Haven.
 AT EAST ROCK PARK.
 On the top of East Rock and Indian Head a cooling breeze from the southeast swept all day yesterday. The rock, how ever, were nearly deserted. It was the hot work getting there that kept people away.
 HOT To-DAY-cooLER TOMORROW.
 Sergeant Cox was seen at the weather bureau yesterday and predicted that to- day would be nearly if not quite as sultry as yesterday, but that tonight it would begin to grow cooler. By Thursday, he said, the weather would be endurable once more if nothing happens to prevent. The cold wave is making up in the northwest and promises to last for several days. The hottest record of the last two days was from 90 to 93 by regulation thermometer General Humidity was at the helm how ever.
 IN BRIDGEPORT.
 In Bridgeport yesterday lady named Edwards fell into fit from the oppres- sive heat near the Wheeler & Wilson fac- tory She was conveyed to neighboring house and cared for.
 CONNECTICUT RIVERS VERY LOW.
 PLAINT1ELD, Conn.,, Aug. 1.-The weather here is the hottest in years and the drouth is something startling. All late crops are burning up in the ground and early ones have ripened by the drouth so quickly that they are badly dwarfed. The rivers, ponds and other mill streams are lower than for years.
 Ashland, Jewett City, Clayville, Elm vile, Central Village and other places have been compelled to stop their mills for want of water. All through the valley of the Yantic, Quinnebaugh and Shetucket rivers mills are idle. Pachaug Lake, which cov- ors 10000 acres, is nearly dry.
 OVERCOME.
 In Norwalk yesterday Herbert Brown, 8 painter employed by George Ostsrbanks, was painting a new house on Stewart ave- nue when he was overcome by the heat and fell from the scaffold to the ground, a distance of nearly twenty feet.