Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-07-30
A HOT WAVE.
1t sweeps Over the Country, Causlng
Many Deaths and Discomfort to Mil


third day OF excessive heat in Chicago
The maximum point reached by the
thermometer was at . p. m, when it
stood at 94 degrees. The highest tenn
perature on record in Chicago is that OF
July 16, 1887, when deaths from sun
stroke reached an alarming figure.
The thermometer registered on that
day 80 degrees. Thirteen deaths result
ed from the excessive heat between
sunrise and sundown. OF this number
one had been FRUSTRATED Sunday, the
other were all overcome during the day,
dying within short time of their pros
tration. OF the number injured by the
terrible heat only an estimate can be
given.
NEW YORK, July 26.-At 1 p. m. Mon
day the thermometer stood at "a de-
grees-the highest reached during the
day. In the vicinity of New York the
heat reached the highest point of the
season, and several cases of prostration
were reported. At tseveral points in New
Jersey the temperature reached 1O5 de-
grees. In some places factories were
closed on account of the heat. The
storm in the afternoon did considerable
damage. In Yonkers two buildings
were struck by lightning and fences
and trees We're blown down. The rain
fall was heavy. In Brooklyn eight
cases of prostration were reported.
The total deaths in New York Monday
were 100 against 179 Sunday. Nine of
these We're directly attributable
to the heat.
ST.. LOUIS, July 26.-St. Louis was
like huge furnace Monday. When
the sun rose in the morning the mer-
curry stood at s3 degrees, and from that
point it steadily boiled upward until at
4 p. m. it reached the maximum of 81
degrees, and that, too, in the coolest
place in the city, the signal service
Office. The direct effect of the
heat was a partial paralysis of
trade and a death list of fifty
one, the largest in many years.
OF this number about forty
were children, ranging in age from five
years and under. Almost without ex-
ception these forty babies died from
| the excessive heat. There were a
couple of score of heat prostrations on
the streets and the patrol wagons
were rushing to and from the hospitals
from noon until evening.
| OMAHA, Neb., July 26.-The oppres-
sive weather of last week continued
throughout Nebraska Monday. At no
time between 10 and o'clock was the
mercury below 100 degrees in Omaha.
Scarcely breath of air was stirring.
and workmen in various sections of the
city We're compelled to quit work tenn
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nearly all street and outside work. In
the immense packing houses at South
Omaha several cases of sunstroke were
reported, and about noon nearly all of
the thousands of employees were or
dered to quit work for few hours.
Five persons reaching the city on morn
ing trains were overcome by the heat.
Dies MONIES, Ia, July 26.-The heat
here has been intense for the last five
or six day. Monday it reached its eli.
max. Thermometers on the principal
streets registered 103 degrees; the
weather service reported 81 degrees
There was little or no breeze and the
heat was oppressive. Workmen die
not in any Instance reported quit
work, but everywhere they haG
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themselves hard pressed with work
The intense heat, with occasiona
thunderstorms, is ripening grain rapid
ly. The oats harvest has commenced
before one-half of the hay has beer
cared for. Help is reported scarce
Reports have been received from
country districts that cattle in thu
pastures have in some instances beef
overcome by heat. Slow progress il
everywhere being made in harves
fields on account of the inability o
horses to stand the strain of tn
weather. One fatal case of sunstrol
is reported from Davenport.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 26.-The ho
weather here continues. The sigma
service thermometer, located in tn
coolest place in town Monday, regis
tered "a degrees. That did not ar
proach the heat on the streets, wher
reliable thermometers registered 10
and 1O2 degrees. There were two fata
cases of sunstroke.
BALTIMORE, Md, July 26.-The thel
, mometer at the weather bureau of1ic
, registered maximum heat of o.
against 04 degrees on Sunday. Their
were ten cases of sunstroxe, two fata
Joseph Maderth died Monday nigh
= and one of his children early in tn
i morning.
r DELpHos, o., July 26.-Will Owen
I while loading lumber in Weger's lun
: : ber yard was overcome by heat an
while being moved to his home dice
5 The thermometer showed 1OS degree
y in the shade here. 1t was the hottie:
= day this summer.
v INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 26.-Joh
!, Connor, a horseshoer, fell prostrai
e from heat Monday evening as he WI
o at work and died before he was take
d home. He was 26 years OF age and III
married.
l. WICHITA, Kan, July 2G.-C. E. Eisel
/ mayer, one of the biggest grain buye
of this section, who has just returne
u from tour of the western part of IL
l. state, reports the corn crop almost
total failure. When he went westwal