New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-30
SUGAR WORKERS STRICKEN.
REFINERY EMPLOYEES SUFFER SEVERELY
FLOM THE HEAT.
BROOKLYN HOSPITALS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
800 PRoSTRAT,oXs AND MANY
DEATHS REPORTED.


Fifteen Frustrated BY the neat III 'he
uavcmcyer sugar refinery in the Eastern District
OF Brooklyn last night, which makes t"'al since
last Sunday OF between $50 and 500 men A'honsh
Information Is vouchsafcd by the ohiciaS OF 'he
refinery. it was reported last night that since the
excessive heat began. more than n dozen mon nave
died, and nearly 100 said TO be III precarous
condition.
The Ilavcrnever sugar refinery extends from South
Secondst and Kent ave South Sixth-st ana thehcc
along the river front More than 800 men ore ON
poyed there. Another refinery, that Of the BROOKLYN
Company which takcs up The square block rom hou'h
Fir,t-st. 10 south Second St.. and from kehtAve
to the river employs nearly 800 men Inc I"'.or'es
are kept going night and day, While the mon r"P'o"'u
IA them are mostly Gcrmans. Iungarmn- ana Poles
with the beginning oc the heat on sunday last the
pro,traiions IN the rcfnerlos began. The men WORK
I'm tomperature of between 10 and $50 degrees, ana
late on sunday night i've men were W"'ud'en MI"
carried home. Between Monday moilirS ana IurS
day night nearly 80 men were rH'rted to oaVe been
overcome by the heat. Of WHOM several are said 70
have died On Wednesday about eighty more men
were Frustrated IN both reineries. From Hldnight
"Wednesday 10 midnight Thursday nearly 100 men We're
forced to quit work. and many had :" be ASSISTED
home. B-;ween midnight Thursday ami O'CLOCK yes
tcday morning forty men were overcome III the
BROOKLYN sugar Refinery hudIfis and thirty men IN
the IIavemcycr. Yesterday and up 10 O'Clock last
Mghi. twenty more Nrn N1tfUllO'n ~ M ~ ~
estimated that from ton 10 fifteen men have Died as
the result of The heat In tho rcilnerS.
There wns formerly staff Of physicians VINO AZ
tended prosfraons and other SiclmcsPs In the sugar
rclneics but this done awny viii. and the sugar
companies now contribute yearly tOwTd wa!ds IN ST.
Caherine's aud the Eastern District lp@pital- Wien
The first prostratlos occurred the ambulance surgeons
were called The cases increased 20 rpdly, however
that the surgeons unable 10 aswr calls from the
rcfncrics. II then becume necessary When man was
overcome nv the heat to send him hone In the custody
OF sUearhoIse c6lplOycs.
As the men are de isnaied BY numbers. II was I'm
pos ioc to ascertain their 1ley reside In the
Thirteenth. Fourteenth and sixteenth wards. The ~
porter, while in keniavc Souil FOurfhSt. last
night, speaking TO Il sugar house cmppvc, Ind his M
ten'iOn called 10 two men who were beating "A mira
man 6ut Of the Hnvcucycr rsunory. The man Vss
umc onscous. lie evidently German about siAt!
year, old. and was taken 10 his hone, 40. - sontL
second -
At the offices Of 'he companies II the rctnerics
II claimed that the men were NaegcfntinS The
reports They admitted. However Mat there we're
mary prostrutoi.s ard few deaths. They we're very
retccnt over the matter. Tho postraiions havI
been kept from the knowledge Of the police and
only the deaths have been reported TO the Boarl
Of Health.