Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-26
HEAT DOES ITS WORK.
People in Both Cities Fall Victims to
Yesterdays Warmth.
THE 9STH DEGREE REACHED.
A Horses Very Dramatic Demise ever on
the NOrthside.
IT WAS EVEN TOO HOT ON THE LIMITED

The hot wave is here, and there are no in
dications of any decrease in temperature
until tonight The average temperature of
yesterday was not quite SO high as that of
Sunday, still last night was hotter than
Sunday night and the hottest night that we
have yet had this summer. The suffering
throughout the city during the day was in
tense Several places of business on the
Southside were closed, and the thermometer
at some places registered $50.
For 10 consecutive hours the red bars of
the blazing sun were never cooled by an in
tervening cloud, until about 5 o'clock,
when his power began to wane, as he neared
the Western horizon.
According to the weather bureau
the thermometer yesterday morning at s
o'clock registered 76o; at noon, $50; P.
NJ, $50; at 8 p. M, $50; at 8 P. NJ, 92o.
The maximum temperature was %. 50; the
minimum, 700, and the mean, s27o. The
Average was $3.50.
They We're Overcome by Heat.
w. A. Brenting, proprietor of the steel
stamp and stencil cutting establishment,
No. 20 Fifth avenue, was overcome by the
heat at 8 o'clock in the morning at Fifth
avenue and Wood street. He recovered
soon afterward.
Detective. Kornman, of the Allegheny
police department, was unable to report for
duty because of having been affected by the
heat Sunday.
John Hanlon, a machinist who worked
for Mcknight. on Penn avenue, was taken
to the Homeopathic Hospital, because of
having been overcome by heat on Sunday.
The excessive heat caused the death of
horse belonging to the McClurg Cracker
Company. The horse fell dead on Butler
street.
A horse, crazed with the heat, rushed
over the Superior avenue bridge at terri
BILE rate of speed, and either totally insane
or unable to make sharp turn, hurled it
self against the stone parapet Of the Preble
avenue decline, and neighing frantically,
fell to the cobble stone pavement 40 feet be-
low, where it was dashed to death.
The accident was one of the most singular
that has been noted for sometime.
The Horse Goes Crazy
Three peddlers with wagon load of rugs
wringers and similar household effects,
were making a trip along California avenue
yesterday morning. The horse was at
tached to light carved wagon and the
party had arrived at the old broken road
way on Superior avenue, when the strange
affair occurred. Two of the peddlers were
in the wagon selecting goods for presenta-
tion to the people in the neighborhood
while the third was standing at
the head of the horse petting
him. The animal exhibited peculiar
actions and suddenly, with snort of fear
and mighty toss of his head sprang sud-
denly away. The man at the bride caught
hold of the harness and endeavored to
check the animal The horse paid no atten-
tion whatever to the weight of the man and
headed straight for the bridge, gave another
toss of his head and threw the man into a
ditch. The two occupants of the wagon
leaped to the safer place in the road just be-
fore the wagon was dashed against a tele-
graph pole with such force that the horse
was freed from the trappings.
1t Makes Death jump.
The next instant with an almost human
cry of terror and pain the animal rushed
laundering over the wooden bridge. The
path was clear and the speed attained was
something terrible. The bridge is fully 600
yards in length and by the time the
Preble avenue decline was reached the horse
seemed to be more in the air than racing
along the bridge. At the decline the
animal gave another cry of terror and the
next instant was hurtling through the air
neighing piteously and wildly paving for
footing. One of his hoofs struck against
the stone wall and large chink marks the
spot some 80 feet above the ground A
large number of people attracted BY the
noise from the resounding bridge were
rendered breathless as the horse struck the
stones Of the pavement, and from the fall
several inches and then fell back
a quivering lifeless mass.
Too Hot Even on the Limited.
The porters on the limited last evening
stated that the average tempe rature on the
cars coming across the State vest erday was
% degrees. The passengers suffered
from the heat. In New Jersey
The temperature went up to 102 degrees.
Officer Michael Wright, of the Southsde.
was overcome by the heat last evening
about o'clock. He was sent to his home |
It the head of Twenty-second street. Dr. |
Arnholt was called and stated that his case |
was not Of an alarming nature. He was |
getting along nicely at a late hour last |
light.
Samuel Horner, laborer employed at the |
Eliza blast furnace at Frankstown, was
overcome with heat last evening while at
work in the mill. He was taken to the
Mercy Hospital. His condition is very
ritical and the doctors in charge said last
light he would hardly recover. He is 21
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