Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-12
NJ YORK CITY BAKED.
thsr Day Of Great Suffering from
the Heat.
LDREN SUFFER THE MOST
The IniOlsrabls Atmosphere -Sunsroks Carries
Dozen Persons in ywsnIy-iour Hours.
The Tenement Houses Nothing Better Than
Oysns-PAladslPhia BaS Highsss
Record Of Hsak

rw YORK, August 11.-Ninety-four
he shade.
fhat is what reliable thermometers
stored in Lower Broadway at noon
ay, with a certainty Of more heat up
early 4 o'clock this afternoon.
This is the hOtttSt day Of the season
.h the hottest August day In twenty
RS. The effect upon the city is far
re serious than most people imagine.
pf sons are overcome by the heat in
tbdredS, and actual SunstrOke befallS
.etreS of people.
rhe aggravstiOn of other diseases by
l0t heat is incalculable, and children,
,.tecially nursing babes and teething
he ones, suffer untold miSerieS. The
E pitalS are crowded with poor Suppli-
his for treatment for the ailments gen
&f4ted by the weather, the stats Of ply
M ans are overworked and many Of the
a.endantS are ft subjects for treatment
IMmSelVeS.
sunstroke has carried of directly or
airectly dozen persons in the last "A
nrs. aud there are scores OF others in
d hospital.
Small children are the greatest suffer
, and to-day there is white Grape
oon many an East Side door At
tlOck this morning the temperature
t.re was 20 degrees. AT 10 o'clock 10
us SIS degrees, and half an hour later
ia mercury had not crept any higher
|u the thermometer. At O'Clock this
aIlernOOn It registered 90 degrees.
nhen thunder clouds lOOmed in the sky
aa6 shortly after y fine shower came
down. Just as soon as the shower be-
eah the thermometer fell two degrees.
Tie humidity at that hour, o'clock,
had decreased TO 81 degrees. Al $3.50
f1e thermometer registered 50 degrees.
Down Broadway several thermome-
ttfs were hung out TO dry, and each one
retistered different degrees Of heat.
Itis side OF Broadway was so hot this
morning that IL seemed that If every
bMlding along that side OF the thor
tnehfare was big furnace full OF live
toAls, and that someone had left the
aaors open. The heat rSdiated from
the pavement in the trembling waves.
The brokers Ns'Sfsplrauon rolling on
helm in streams.
On the shady side Of the street there
was such a crowd OF pedestrians that
bud little air circulated there. In con-
seQuence 1t was sitting on the shady
s|de of the street.
With the exception OF the monster
tnildings down town and the biggest of
tic flats up town every structure in
own was thoroughly heated up before
nOOn yesterday. over on the East Side,
ID fact, I'm every tenement house district
Dc brick work had been warm for
evera days past. But the heat of
Yesterday warmed up every portion
d the tenemeRts, even TO the
j ,eriOr woodwork. AS there was no
tain or any particular amount Of cool
less last night, but very small pOr-
Non Of the heat got on, OF the buildings.
"a not a tenement house in the city has
here been room or hall nor any pOr-
on OF the building that has not been
alingly hot for the past fOrty-eight
tOurS Even on the roofs there was
hut little relief TO be obtained because
a the absence of a breeze that was
FOrth the name. 10 order 70 get the
fbOfs cool enOugh 20 sit or stand
"A 10 was necessary AOI buo Wdlo
nembers OF the different families to
fhrOw buckets OF water on them. But
ew OF the dwellerS in the tenements
fot any rest last night. The mothers and
Homen who had remained in or about the
tenementS through last night got away
s soon as they could this morning. As
many as could do so went on one OF the
nany free excursions which leave the
eIty every morning during the summer.
OtherS went down on the piers until the
sDh got too hot for them. On the busi-
ness streets, especially where the horse
ears run, IL was pitiful to see the suffer
ings of the horses.
BY the seaShOre at COney Island this
alternoOn the mercury In the shade
hood at % degrees.
During the - hours ending at mid
tlght there have been 40 cases Of heat
rrostration In this city, eleven Of which
lave proved fatal.