New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17
FATAL EFFECTS OF HEAT.
nr.THs IN THIS CITY AND BROOKLYN.

oacal note of the different kinds OF weather
which visit New-York in the course of a year has
, there been such hot 9th Of June as June 10,
1891. Not in the archives of the Service is there
10 be found the history of 10th Of June which
can cempare in thermometrical achievement with
the 9th Of June, 1891. Apollo showered sun
darts en- Manhattan Island feroer than those whlch
melted the wax wings of Icarus when that mis-
guided youth flew within easy range ii Iearus
had been q New-Yorxer and had shown on MS
wings yesterday on the Broadway parade they
would have melted before he had chance 10
dy from the sidewalk. And when Apollo had h'u
his turn Jupiter, with thunder and hgnmins anu
ta,r .nsbered in a cool evening. Altogether IL
was a day to be remembered, whatever phe eN-
planation of it-playtulness in Olympus, OF the
Mckinley bill; the new spots on the sun, or oer-
ceant punn's cold calm, matter-of-faot: " Due 70
a high pressure off the South Atlantic coast ana
n very low w,1ressure in the Lake regions"
Air" added the Sergeant, continuing this ex-
nlanatiOn which is the one stamped with the
authority of the United States Government ana
is probably entitled to more respect than any Oh
the Others air flows into low pressure OF a
high pressure This has given us steady flow OF
southwesterly winds over this section"
On June Is, 1885, the mercury indicated e1 de-
erees in the shade at the hottest part OF the day.
This is the only record for the date which APP
nroaches that of Yesterday, which was, at the
maximum of torment, 90 degrees In the shade
These are the official figures, but on the sidewalk
the Perry instrument at 3 $50 p. IN. marked W
degrees: and, further down the street, Hudnuts
AZ 2 :45 D. m. was appalling awed and perspir-
ing crowd with an indicator at the same figure. AL
tbouoh the official instruments must be credited
with q precisenesS and sef-restraint not TO be eX-
pected of the plebeians down on the pavement, 1t
must be said that the Signal Service Bureau is such
q fine summer reSort-alwaSs breezy ana COM
fortabe-that probably the measure of the agonles
endured By the citizens finds a more sympathetic
register on the street than the heights OF the
Eauitable Building. Even up there, the tempera-
ture in the eye of the sun far exceeded that In
oicated by the thermometers which Sergeant Dunn
keeps in COOL shady corners When he was remon-
strated with on account of the failure of his heat
messurers 10 meet the popular demand for figures
which will enable the men of this generation to
sousre with their conscences their accounts to the
next of tbe torrid summer of '9l, he confessed
"Well. about 1890 put in the sun thermone-
fer that had been marking So degrees in the shade,
and il ran up to 100 in about two minutes. 1t
travelled at the rate of . l2 degrees for minute
and then made degrees In one minute Inc
Sergeant agreed that at the warnsest part OF the
day it was probably we'll over leo degrees i'll the
sun the street.
The day started out with an unkept promise
of being even warmer than Monday. AT o'clock
the Signal Service record 75 degrees, or
degrees more than at the same time on Monday
morning. The humidity, which fortunately b"s
not been prominent element in the hot spell,
was at S o'clock rs per cent. AS the day adj
vanced, the thermometer Jagged, and at noon the
records of the 18th and of the 10th were alike
IN % degrees while the percentage of humidity
was only So, which was less than that of Monday
rt the same hour, and exceedingly mod
crate and unaggressiye proportion. The mercury
stopped climbing when it reached SO, and grad
ually declined during the afternoon, until about
6 o'clock came the thunder and the rain to dlssl-
pate, with short sharp storm. the lingering
forces Of absorption and radiation which kept the
air of the city igneous, and to bring for the eve
ming a delightful and refreshing GOODNESS with
gentle tanning breeze.
Sergeant Dunn predicted warm weather for the
early part of to-day and cooler with showers"
for the close He said that the weather is
likely to remain cooler after this evening. The
highest record of the whole summer of 800 was
nearly equalIed in the last two days 1t was
95 degrees, only one degree more than Mondays
maximum and the date of it was July 8. But
though it is highly unlikely, and not at AL to be
desired, that il will rival the most memorable
heat record on the books of the Signal Service
station here that of September Z, 1881, when this
wretched city was purgatory at a round hundred
degrees in the shade
Many persons were Frustrated by the intense
heat; and several fatal cases were reported
Edward Torr, registry clerk in the Barge Office,
was prostrated and was removed to the hospital
Of the Barge Office and was sent home IN the
evening.
George Jenkins, an Englishman sixty years
old, whose home was in Lewis-st. Brooklyn, was
prostrated by the heat in front of No Al Jay
ST. at ego p. n., and died before ambulance
could be called
John Clay, aged twenty-eght, suffered sun
stroke while at No. 694 Second-ave. He will
probably die
Bridget Holland servant was stricken down
with the heat at No. 125 ROosevelt-st. She was
eken to Bellevue Hospital In few minutes
she was a raving maniac, and her condition is
serious.
John Riley, twentyseven years old, of Jer-
sey City, was killed yesterday afternoon at
Elizabethport by being run over by
for pleasure trip He was overcome by
the heat and tumbing from his seat struck on the
pavement which stunned him. and before he could
recover a wheel of the truck crushed his skull.
The effects of the heat were more felt IN Brook
lyn yesterday than on the day before. The ther-
mometer marked 04 degrees. There were three
fatalities and nine of prostration resulting
from the heat reported TO the police William
Wackerman was Frustrated at Bushwick-ave. and
Staggst. while driving load of lumber, and fell
of Of it and died. Henry Hart, thirty-fve years
Old of No 542 Graham-ave, died at his home
ffom the heat Mrs. Mary Grant, siXty-seven
years old, Of No. 1s5 IL Jsy-st., was prostrated
IN front Of her home and died in a short time.
Sebastian Zelos1. a Pole. forty-eight years old,
was Hrnstruck on Monday afternoon while walking
on the Queens Road near Flashing l.. l. He fell by
the roadside and died there. The body was dis
covered late at night and removed to the farm Of
John Lngler. where he had been employed;
tree in front Of the house No. Charles-st
was blown down at 6 Il o p. IN. and the branches
fell upon horse and express wagon The driver
escaped injury, but the horse was hurt and the
wagon was broken.
The force Of the thunderstorm was severely felt
IN Brooklyn and the lightning struck in
two places The flagstaff on Public
School No. as, in Lafayette-9ve; near