The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-03
OLD SOL ON A REGULAR HIGH.
THE EASTERN AND MIDDLE SEC
TIONS sWELTERING.


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Winds Contributing Largely 10
Keeping Up steam Under the Their
mometers-Many Deaths and Pros
trations.
Washington, June 2.-The hot wave
which has hovered over the eastern and
middle sections of the United States dur
ing The past few days has been a record
breaker, and the officials of the weather
bureau are unable at the present time to
predict any relief. There is an area of
high pressure that is central over Tennes-
see. which has caused the present exces-
sive heat to be so intensely felt.
This high pressure, which has persistent
ly lowered over Tennessee. is known as
the permanent high" and has been con-
tributed to very largely by southerly
winds. During the past "a hours, in West
ern Pennsylvania and Maryland the tenn
perature has not been quite so high, fall
ing off from > to degrees in different sec
tions of those states having been noted.
The following are some of the maximum
temperatures reached: "a at New York; 96
at Harrisburg; SO at Philadelphia; "a at
Pittsburg; "a at Baltimore. and 96 at
Washington. At Philadelphia the record
has been broken by two degrees.
At Washington the thermometer has
been even higher than 96 at this time of
the year, as in June, 1874, when the tenn
perature rose to 1o2, six degrees warmer
than it was to-day.
In New York city it was 8 degrees hotter
to-day than on any second of June in the
past decade.
The southern cities east of the Missis
sippi river have been feeling the effects of
the hot wave to a great degree The fol-
lowing are the cities in which records of
high temperature for this date were made
to-day:
Vicksburg, 9S. 2 above; Memphis, 9S,
above; Chattanooga. 9S, 4 above; New Or
leans, "a, above; Mobile, Sc, l above; At
lanta, 9s, above; Augusta, 100, above;
Savannah 9S, l above; Charleston, 9S, /
above; Charlotte, 9s, > above; Raleigh, 9S,
above; Louisville. 9S, above; India
napolis, 9S, above.
Notwithstanding the fact that the rec
ord shows that the thermometer has been
degrees higher in Washington than 1t
marked to-day, it is doubtful If the peo-
pie and animals ever suffered more. The
attendance upon churches was seriously
affected, and every means of conveyance
down the river and into the surrounding
country was crowded. The hotel arrivals
were the smallest for months One of the
visitors down the river was seized with a
l. Ta frIftrad ig fhnnprhf bV
the extreme heat and died before reacn-
ing the city. He was Chris Kraft, ci-
garmaker. aged 40 years.
James Murray, a stonecutter, white.
about 80, was overcome by the heat
at the corner of Thirty-seventh and
NJ streets, Georgetown, and died almost
Immediately.
Philadelphia, May 2.-The tropical heat
that has prevailed since Thursday has
reaped terrible harvest of death in Phil
adelphia. The prostrations from the heat
number several scores and on Friday there
were two deaths, three yesterday and the
climax was reached to-day, when II per-
sons died from heat prostration.
The thermometer to-day in the weather
bureau office at its maximum at o'clock,
registered 95 degrees, two lower than yes
terday's maximum. The lowest point
touched by the thermometer to-day was at
$50 o'clock this morning, when it stood at
| 70 degrees. From that time until o'clock
the mercury went booming upward, until 1t
reached 95 degrees.
To the gasping thousands compelled TO
breathe the superheated air from the
bricks of the houses and the scorching
asphalt of the streets, the difference of
| two degrees in the mercury from yester-
| day was not noticeable and the suffer-
! ing among the residents of Philadelphia
was as great as it has been on any day of
the prevailing hot spell Fortunately the
| day was Sunday and the workers in the
mills and factories were able to rest and
seek what coolness they could. But for
this the mortality would undoubtedly
have been much higher than 1t was
Besides the II, there were a score of
prostrations reported by the police, and
how many more there were in the house
holds of families they alone know Short
ly after o'clock a thunder shower cooled
the air and the mercury fell y degrees in
an hour. At o'clock tonight the mer-
curry was 81 degrees.
Little promise of relief is held out by
the weather bureau and another dreadful
day of suffering seems in store for Phil
adelphia tomorrow
Baltimore. Md, June 2.-The mercury
again hovered about the nineties to-day
95 degrees being the highest recorded at
the observers Office on the top floor of
Johns Hopkins University building. In
other parts of the city the readings re-
ported were as high as 102. There was but
little breeze to temper the intense heat
of the suns rays. Fiften prostrations
were reported two cases resulting fatally
John Pierce 60 years old, a farmer, and
Daniel Bates, aged 40 a colored stevedore
succumbed to the torrid heat and died
shortly after arrival at the hospital.
Charleston w. Va, June 2.-The mercury
registered 1O5 degrees to-day, the hottest
this year.
Chicago, June 2-The hot weather in
Chicago continues and is causing much
suffering. The weather bureau reported
the highest temperature of the day as 92
degrees This was at o'clock this after
noon and is two degrees only less than the
temperature of last Friday. The ther-
mometers on the street registered as high
as 81 in the shade. The mean tempera-
tlre of the day as officially reported was
20 degrees, 10 higher than the normal tenn
perature Of June averaged for the past
twenty years.
People overcome by heat on the streets
to-day were revived In nearby drug stores
and only one case so far as learned was
serious enough to send to a hospital
cleveland, O., June 2-The official ther-
mometer at the weather Office marked 90iz
degrees to-day, but street instruments