Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-07-28
TWO DIE FROM HEAT.
THE RECORD OF ANOTHER DAY or
SWELTERlNo HEAT IN RICHMOND.
The Range OF the Thermometers at Various
Points in the City-A Gratefni
Change Last Night.


and factories was pretty much the same rs
on the day previous, the hands standing
the heat remarkably well, though at'fne
Tredegar only small force. was at worK.
This was duo to the fact that the water
was very low in the canal and ful heau
could not be gotten.
Soon after nightfall dark clouds began
20 form and at 10 o'clock the first note ot
the storm sounded in distant peal OF
thunder. which was followed at Intervals
bv rather heavier ones. A strong VIM
blew tor an hour or more and the mercury
fell rapidly. getting down as low as ~ as
midnight. There was very light falI OF
rain, bnt the atmosphere was mac pure
| and pleasant.
DEATH OF BALTIMORE MAN.
Early in the afternoon Mr.. Charles Q.
Poske, a BStimore drummer, dled az me
| Exchange Hotel from sunstroke. Mr.
| Poske. who represented the firm OF EDWIN
| Bryor & Co., Of the Monumental City, ar
rived here Yesterday morning RIA the
York River route, and very soon after re-
Clustering went on the street TO LOOK aiter
! trade. He returned to the hotel q niue
| after 12 O'Clock aad took seat IN the Dli-
| lard-room near the window. lie soon pc
can 10 feel very badly and started to hls
| room. Passing through the oihce Mr.
poske was interrogated by one of the
clerk. ag TO how he felt, and the response
of the Baltimorean was that he was quite
sick.
Mr.. Poske was wandering around IN
hallway of the Ballard House IN SEMI
dazed condition, when no was seen few
minutes later by Mr.. Darlington, VINO TOOK
the suffering man in his arm and carrleu
him to his room. IT was realized that Mr.:
Poske's condition was quite serious ana
Drs. NJ. B. Carter and Jacob Michaux were
summoned and responded promptly. All
known remedies were applied. but the pa
tient soon expired. The physlcians pro-
nounced death from suustroke.
had FREQUENTLY VISITED RICHMOND.
The deceased was a German. about 4O
years of age, and man OF large rahe'
| but not corpulent. He was not an
| intemperate man. He leaves wife ana
several children. The deceased yisileu
| Richmond frequently ana was hlgny es
| teemed by those witl whom he came III
| contact.
whom the dead man was employed, as wei
| as to his relatives, and Mr.. L. il. foske'
brother. arrived last night. The fatner
and q son of the deceased and a member
| of the firm of Edwin BTyOr 20. VIII
reach here this morning.
The remains were consigned to Captain
| Il. l.. AnElslltu uuNti Adhtis NhO Va
them for shipment. They will be taken TO
Baltimore on the 1850 A. u. train to-day,
OTHER cAsEs OF sUNsTRoEE.
There we're several other cases OF sun
stroto IN Richmond yesterday, only one
| of which proved fatal. This was an III
stance in which colored woman fell from
the heat after having washed all day: She
was taken 10 the almshOuse, but died soon
after her arrival there. DIR. Jacob MichauX
had hardly lef, the death bed of Mr. Poske
when he was called to the home OF Mr.. l.
J. Jackson, on Twenty-nlnth street, whom
he found suffering from the effects OF the
| extreme heat. Mr.. Jackson was duly treat
! ed. and. while very i'll, was not thought to
| be dangerously SO.
A yonng man named Smith, who resides
near the corner of Fifth and Clay streets.
was overcome by heat at Fifteenth and
| Nam streets in the afternoon. be was
taken home on the electrician and ply
sician sent for.
Mr. NJ. G. Lawson. on employee OF the
DISPATCH cOmpOsng-room, on starting
home Yesterday afternoon for supper, and
while passing through the Capitol square,
was overcome by the excessive hot wea-
tber and fell. Friends assisted him to the
car and he was conveyed TO his home, on
west Marshall street. Last night ne was
resting easily and expects to be out IN
dav or two.
MIR. W. II. Frayser. street-car driver
and brother of Policeman ii. q. frayser.
was taken from his post of duty about
1890 o'clock and carried to his home,
having been overcome by the heat.
AMBULANCE CORPS KEPT BUSY.
While the mercury was playing around
| 100 yesterday the ambulance corps was
kent quite buslly engaged In attending
those who had been overcome by heat.
The first call was at 1890 TO the Third
| Police station 10 white woman suffering
with hysteria. She was treated and lett.
At 1880 A. VI. TO Eleventh and Canai
| streets to cOlored man who was slightly
hurt. No treatment was nece sary.
Atl2.45 L. NJ. to Seventeenth and Grace
streets 10 a white man who had been over
come by heat. He was sent 10 the Retreat
| for the Sick for treatment.
AT 21O p. ~ 10 No. 3 High street to
negro woman who was suffering with sun
stroke. She died shortly after having
been taken 10 the almshouse.
At3.45 F. NJ. to 905 east Cary street to
a colored man overcome by heat. He was
| treated and taken to his home, No. 16 south
Cherry street.
HAD TO STOP AWHILE.
Fxcayators aud PAYERS who were at work
| throughout the city were IN some instances
compelled to suspend their labors for a
| few hours, but tins was the exception
rather than the rule.
The DISPATCH therm Ometer registered at
| noon g degrees. at p. VI. 100 degrees, at
G =. NJ. % degrees and at midnight 80 de-
| 0rees. At the residence of Sir. W. H..
! Peasants. on Church Hill. It registered at 3
| o'clock 1O2 degrees
Hoses and mules seemed to suffer much
more than on Tuesday. In the morning
one Of the horses belonging 70 the Home
| Brewing Company dropped dead. A horse
| also died on the corner of Twenty-seventh
| and Broad streets from the effects of the
| heat.
last night thousands of people visited
the parks, and during the day the con-
sumption of ice in the city was something
| phenomenal.
Alderman Davis says that he worked for
An hour in a place on Tuesday afternoon
while the thermometer regis cred 1870 de-
grees. He states that he did not know
| tins until after ne had completed the JOB,
| but that he could not be persuaded TO do
| so again.
At the almshouse at Sd. NJ. the mercury
| stood at 80 degrees. at the Iredegar-W w orks
1O3 degrees. aud at Ramos's drugstore,
| Cary and Reservoir streets, lO2.
TIE SPELL OF 1887.
This spell has been the hottest since the
| long one in July, 1887, which continued for
over TWO weeks. The record OF the DIS
| pATcH's thermometer for fourteen DAYS
! during that spell was as follows, only the
reading al L. M. each day being given
here:
Degrees.
July ll...........''.''''''' 90 80
| ...................-.''- "
10. 3..........'.'.''.'.'' 80 So