New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-21
JUNE'S RECORD BROKEN.
TIE HOT WAVE MAKES ITSELF FELT BY
EVERY ONE,
LACK OF HUMIDITY PREVENTED LONGER LIST
OF PROSTgATIONS-NO IMMEDIATE

The mercury went scrnmbns up - the higher
zones OF the thermometer yesterday and when the
sun sunk below the horizon the hottest June ~
on record came to an end. II has been many years
since such high temperature has been entered 10
the credit OF juno 90. The hottest Jun" 20 re-
corded by the Weather Enrcau previous TO yesterday
was in 1888 when the temperature reached 81 de-
grees There several hours yesterday when the
thermometer vibrated between 95 and 06 degrees.
Tho average temperature for Tie day was 81 degrees
The lowest tcmperatur" registered was ~ ue3rc's.
The hot wave lost no time in skirmShng. " massed
itself and swept over New-YOrk Ike simoom. Az
A. M the temperature measured at 20 de-
erccs and ut 10 a. m. tho acrObatic mercury hah
vauted up 10 81 degrees. The record for June 20
was tied nj noon when tho temperature. rs registered
BY the official thermometer was 9l degrees. Al
2 y. m. the announcement came from the "ca'h'r
Bureau that the proper number OF degrees Oh h'A'
70 be recorded was 90. From that honr on the
thermometer continued us career Of record breaking
until II reached the pinnacle OF It's amDiuoh IN
scoring n temperature OF 90 degrees.
This temperature was high enough, yet there were
Instruments attached 10 lampposts and displayed IN
front OF drug stores which improved over the omcia
accounts. and the day OF heat ard discomfort up
70 nearly 100 degrees Yet the story cf the bau
behavior OF the yesterday might have SEVERAL
more chapters Of prostraton from the heat and per
haps death from sunsroke, II the humidity had been
higher. ,
The hot weather of Yesterday general. Phi!-
adelphia WAS In the Lead Even at a. M she had
q record OF 81 degrees 10 her credit. AT Key west
Fla the temperature the same rs Mt Philadelphia
and the coolest spot in all the United States was AZ
OLYMPIA. Washington where the thermometer stood
OF 40 degrees.
There was not much breeze stirring In New YORK
Yesterday The sky was like big alright cover
fitted over a hot and stewing city Pory ana us'
ni6cd citizens walked the streets With Their c"S
flung over their arms. and tapped big palm-ea ia.s
In n ispircd and listcss way. The men WHO SOFA
soda water and lemonade and the mixers o. summer
drinks toiled Ike packhorses attending 10 inc wants
OF Impatient customers. Th1isands sought re"ei
f,om the heat in the parks, and last evening 'hore
were crowds az the BATTERY UyHie u t7' 'iV"''
Of air from the sea.
The programme for today IS for continued heat
and humidity.
The number Of persons who were Frustrated by
The heat I'm the city yesterday not great although
there was much suffering The police sent 10 nos
pitfalls or TO their homes the following persons Johh
Campbell seventy years old, OF No. 100 West Mile
tiethSt.; Edward tEcaman. eighteen, OF No. w.
eecond-ave.: james Sheridan, thirty OF NO 4o-
West Fifty seccndst.; John McMurray, thrty-six OF
No. As Renwick ST.. and Leonard Castel twenty-one
OF No 22s East Fory-f An unknown man
and One-hundred- and eighty sxth-st. He fell on tho
Sidewalk and became nsensibe. a ponceha, sun
monsd an nS n rS the inc man several minute
before he died The man was about forty years n ca ~
s%a MSTsSe 10 await iasSff6
There were dozen cases Of prOstraton from inc
heat in Brooklyn where the temperature rose TO ",
rNoriarty, twenty-five years old OF Rush-st was
FRUSTRATED at Pearl and Concord ss. and was carried
into an engine house. where be died. Minnie Iiamil-
ton twenty. eight years old. of No 81. F1nltavc..
while ON her way home from Coney lslsna was over
died in O short time.