Evening star., 1895-06-03
Victims in This City Of the Fierce
Rays Of the Sun.
RELIEF MAY COME TOMORROW
What the Weather Forecaster
Says on the Subject.
REC ORD ELSEW HE r E

mander E. G. Tiltcn, United States navy,
was victim of sunstroke in this city this
morning. He will be buried at Annapolis.
The first case of sunstroke treated at the
Emergency Hospital during the present
hot spell occurred this morning and re-
suited fatally. The victim was John Allen,
a colored man fifty years of age, employed
by ]. Maury Dove as a coal HEAVIER. Allen
was at work on the hoppers in the yard of
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. He
was overcome about 1O:30 o'clock and ex-
pired at the hospital at twenty minutes be-
fore o'clock.
There were two other sudden deaths to-
day, although it is not certain how much
effect the heat had. Mr.. John Schlotter-
beck of Ill o ctreet died suddenly early in
the morning and Mr.. Robert Mcdonald of
Mount Pleasant later in the day.
Heat ProstratfOns.
Julia Robinson, a colored woman who
lives in Shepherds alley. was overcome by
the heat while attending the Police Court
this afternoon as witness She was cared
for by friends, and was taken home in the
ambulance.
This afternoon the police patrol wagon
of the fourth precinct was called to 459 G
street southwest where a colored woman
was overcome by the heat while at work.
Today about noon man named Edward
Stevens. while working in Lafayette
square, was overcome by the heat. and
was taken to his home, No. 942 Florida
avenue, by the police.
A. T. Atkinson, employed a compositor
In the government printing office, was over
come by the heat while at work Saturday
afternoon and had to be taken to mis-
home, No. 145 c street northeast He is
being attended by DR.. Richardson. This
afternoon the sick mans condition was re-
garded as serious.
T,1Eti Knit nf
was overcome by the heat while on jack
son street this morning, and 1t is feared
he has become temporarily insane. Mr..
Smith has been afflicted with insomnia for
some time and continued loss of rest
duced him to such a weak condition that
he was unable to withstand the intense
heat of the past few days.
At the Weather Bureau.
Hot stuff, hot stuffw murmured the
weather forecaster this morning, wearily,
as Tie Star man asked him the probabil-
ties. The weather man was not slangy; he
was merely accurate. Sometimes a man
can be accurate and slangy, too. But Prof.
McAdie, the forecaster for June, is not
slangy. He pointed slowly over his tissue
PAPER map, and called attention to large
ring-a-round-a-rosy in the western country
labeled low" '--
That Storm" said Prof. McAdie 'fs the
cnly chance that there is that this heated
term may break up. 1 am hoping, for the
cake OF the citizens of the east, that it may
come on eastward and sweep the country
from end to end with cooling rains. But it
may go diagonally off to the northeast, and
so merely bisect the country. In that event
We VIII not feel the effects of it materially
This high that has occupied the eastern
section OF the country shows signs of col
iapslng. 1t has grown weaker, and may
break up suddenly, and let the western
storm, which came in from Arizona and
New Mexico last Saturday, work it's way
eastward. That storm has caused the tenn
peratures in the west ana middle states to
'lrop somewhat already. There was light
frost reported this morning from Santa Fe,
New Mexico. The temperatures this morn
ing are all a little lower in the east and it
seems probable that yesterdays marks,
which broke more records than at any
other corresponding period ever known, will
not be again reached during this particular
hot spell. But the course OF the storm is so
uncertain, as yet, that it is hard to fore
cast cooler weather for this region with
any detiniteness. In the map issued this
morning 1 have said that cooler weather
will probably prevail over the eastern sec
tion of the country Tuesday night For the
District l have said: Fair, with increasing
cloudiness; stationary temperature tonight
followed by slightly cooler weather Tues
day evening, with westerly winds. ,"
Prof. McAdie is Cautious.
Prof. McAdie Is cautious. He does not
want to raise the hopes of the people in
ordinately, and he goes slowly about max
ing predictions that may not be verified
This morning the temperature triie
lower than that which was recorded at the
same hour yesterday, but, as he pointed
out, there was every probability that The
relative humidity of the atmosphere would
considerably increase before night, so that
the sensible temperature-as the scientists
call it-that is to say, the actual feeling"
may be much greater. This is due to The
familiar old phenomenon that the moisture
in the air greatly affects the effect which
the heat has upon the body. Cases of sun
stroke are mo~a numerous when the air is
moist as well as hot than when there is a
dry heat. Indeed, men are quite frequently
prostrated by the heat in cellars where the
atmosphere is SO wet that, in the language
of some one who suffered from that cause
today, it can be wrung out like wet rag.
Yesterday the local temperature reached
96 degrees, which is the highest that has
been officially recorded since the present
heated spell began. 1t is doubtless true
that many weil-regulated thermometers
without scientific pedigrees registered over
100 degrees. Many of these instruments
ran up to 9S and 3d. but they cannot be ac-
cepted as real history of the sizzard. The
official record must be the only one taken.
Poor People Suffer.
Few heated spells last longer than this
che, though many on record as having
endured as long. The worst about the
present case is that it came with little
warning, and right after a severe spell of
cold weather. which had put the people all
of condition to resist the heat. The poor
people are suffering the worst, of course.
They get it hardest in winter, when they
cannot buy coal to keep warm, and they
are at the hot end of the poker six months
later. when they have no means of getting
ice to cool themselves. Folks with clean
beds and electric fans and ice coolers and
palatable, cooling drinks at their disposal,
nay imagine that they very miserable,
but the folks who really feel the heat the
most intensely are the wretched poor who
cannot get away from their close quarters
to the country or on the river, who have to
suffer like animals in pens, who die by the
score of complaints peculiar to the hot
weather, and whose little ones waste away
under the terrible influence of the piti!ess
sun, and during the long, weary, restless
nights.
Let the people who live in the cool sub
rrb, or whose city houses are airy and well
ventilated, provided sometimes with arti-
fetal breeZes, whose purses are long enough
furnish unlimited supplies of ice. stop
moment in their bewailings over their hard
fate, and think of the thousands of poverty
stricken people living in the alleys and in