New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-11
HEAT AND HEAVY STORMS.
TUE GREAT CITY WAS ROASTED FIRST
AND THEN DRENCHED.
srprEMBER 10 HAS NEW TEMPERATURE
REcoRD-vIvlD LIGHTNING AND ROLLING
THUNDER ~ THE EARLY EVENING.
FOLLOWED BY A REFRESH
ING GOODNESS.

ING GOODNESS
A great heat and two great thundershowers
aescended upon New-York yesterday 1t was
the hottest September 10 since 1871 according
~ the records of the Weather Bureau and was
the hottest day Of the year since August s.
When IL raned the afternoon 1t rained in
torrents, If all the windows of the heavens
we're opened. The showers were not of long
duration. but As of ar inch of rain fell while
TREY lasted The Thermometer registered at one
time in the day temperature of "a degrees in
the Weather Bureau. and at 6 o'clock the
humidity of the atmosphere 81. While the
showers lasted the thunder was almost hicessant,
and sharp, vivid flashes Of lightning leaped
about. There We're nine pros;ra tions from the
heat reported. one of which was fatal
Altogether IL was remarkable day, and a
uost uncomfortable one for the city. 1t was
more than an uncomfortable day. IL was one Of
actual suffering The man who died from the
effects OF the heat was Frederick Schmerng, Of
No 50 Lexington-ave. He was forty years old,
and was employed as cook. He vas overcome
by the heat in front Of No. 15S East One-hun-
Acknowledgement ard was taken in
an ambulance to the Harlem Hospital, where he
died soon after
The stay of the heat and humidity which made
the city suffer began early in the day, in fact
as soon as the sun was up AS 1t came up 1t
seemed TO bring the humidity with 1t, and BY
o'clock in the morning the moisture mark was
Is per cent. Ii increased steadily, and at 6
o'clock was 91. The mercury began its upwa.l
dimb in Perrys thermometer at o'clock In the
morning. and by o'clock had reached 10 de-
grees which would seem ordinarily 10 be hot
enough for a fab day. BY O'Clock. however.
Il had got up to 50 degrees. and at noon it was
al Sc degrees. At $3.50 o'clock it stood al 90
degrees. The humidity having increas I'd along
with the heat the city sweltering.
Out of the wind one felt as II he Wei sitting,
and the wind did not blow strong enough or
ffor n1h laf he
papers began to come out at this time. anu
announce the cheerful fact that it was de-
grees below the freezing point at winston.
H. D.. and everybody who knew the direction
OF Williston ned his eyes longing.y that
way.
Rain had been predicted for the afternoon,
and BY 4 o'clock clouds began to appear. when
gave hope of a fulfilment of the prediction. ara
that rain would bring relief. Those whose
business compelled them TO walk about the
streets and those who were shut up in offices
10 say nothing of laborers working out OF doors
and the people crowded in tenement houses
longed for the rain as desert travellers lone lOi
"the shadow OF a great rock in weary land
The clouds spread over the sky with black
and angry looking "thunder-nodules rising
out CT them. There the distant rumble Oh
thunder and then at about o'clock the storm
broke. From all the black clouds the SWORDS
Of lightning slipped amid the sheets OF ram
and the thunder was almost instantaneous
with the flashes which created L. In less
than an hour II was all over ana the western
sun shon. through the riffs OF the breaking
clouds By 7:30 the storm clouds began 10
gather again. however. and at O'Clock another
severe thunder shower swept over the city
When Il had passed away II left the air cear
and pure but II was still cloudy. and looked
is another shower might come In the course
Of the night. A..
The temperature fell considerably, and the
htter part Of the evening was not uncommon
fable 1t grew cooler as the night advanced.
and people knew that they could sleep unaf-
fected by the heat A..
The heat yesterday extended all over the
Atlantic Coast and far west as the ONO
Valley West of the Mississippi and IN the
lake region ii was much cooler. In some places
In the city yesterday standard thermometers
registered higher degree OF temperature
tben that recorded at Perry's. One thermome,
Ter In broadway registered temrerature Oh
az degrees at O'Clock. and the ofhcial thef-
momeier OF the Weather Bureau, on the breezy
heights OF the Equitable Building, reglstercu
a temperature Of Q. degrees at the hottest uihc
of the afternoon. IT, r eo,-
NJ Dunns forecast for 10 day calls TOT lalr
.rd cooler weather. The winds will be souther-
iv AZ first and will then get around lnto .ne
northeast quarter 1t is not probapie tltt tIe
city will be afflicted with such another day az
yesterday again this year. and 1t is 10 De hopeu
mai q will not in many years TO come; IL Wds
a day for young men to talk apout Wheh my
.,aT have become "the Oldest Inhabitants