The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-12
A Torrid Wave Sweeping Over
the Whole Country.
SUFFERING IN GREAT CITIES
An Appalling Number Succumb
to the Intense Heat.
THE DEAD FILL THE MORGUEs
The Blazing Sun and Sitting Air in
the Large Cities Have Turned
Them into Vast
Internos

New York, August 1I.--Auother day.
of the fearful heat winch is expressing
this section has added a page OF fatali-
ties and suffering more remarkable
than its predecessors. In New York
city, in Brooklyn, and all the adja-
cent towns and throughout the States
OF New York and New Jersey the
days reports of prostrations over
shadow that of former days. Men and
women walking along the street have
dropped in their tracks an died before
physicians could be summoned and
horses have died as though stricken
by plague.
Many factories have been closed and
outdoor workers have been compelled
TO drop their tools and find shelter
during the hours when the sun was at
its height. Particularly among police
men and letter-carriers has the suffer
ing been intense.
Along the business streets men have
walked with umbrellas over their
heads, with coats on their arms and
fans in their hands. The department
Iof public works has come to the reliet
of the tenement house districts and
forces of men with carts are patrolling
the streets of these sections and flood
ing them with water from the corner
hydrants. Men, women and children
rush in groups under the streams from
the hose and the night scenes among
the tsnements as the relief parties
make their round are unprecedented.
Unless tomorrow night brings re
lief many prostrations are looked for
in the Madison Square Garden meet
ing, and preparations are being made
for a special fOrcre of medical men
and for special ambulances.
The thermometer has for the last
six nights fallen but a few degrees
from the limits registered during the
hottest part of the day. The heat
on Monday night held almost station
airy at 81 degrees until o'clock Tues
day morning and as soon as the sun
began to ascend the thermometer rose
to the record.
In 1892 it was SO degrees. To-day it
registered up on the top Of the Man
haitian Life Insurance building where
the weather bureau is situated 90 and
fiye-tenths degrees and the humidity,
which is far worse than the boiling
sun, stood at 20 and down on the
streets it was not less than degrees
warmer.
The official temperature beginning
at noon was as follows:
~ noOn-90; 1 p. m, 80; p. m, 90;
p. M, 90 5-105; A p. m, 90; D. m, 93;
p. m. %, and 7 p. m, 90, and up to
| midnight the temperature did not
drop but few points, registering IS.
The list of fatalities is appalling.
Twenty-one persons died of sun
stroke in Chicago Sunday out of sixty
five prostrations; twenty-one died Of
the heat in Philadelphia. 1t st. Louis
| thirteen died Sunday and twelve Mon
day. New Yorlts list was seven Sun
day and twenty Monday. In Balti-
more fifteen expired, and even i'm Al
bany, N. y, three died of heat, while
in many other cities the torrid wave
claimed its victims.
New York's death list Saturday was
10; Brooklyn, B; Chicago, s; St. Louis,
II; Philadelphia IL.
In this city and Brooklyn to-day full
ly 125 deaths and hundreds of pros
trations were reported.
In Jersey City here were 12 deaths,
28 prostrations. On Staten Island IA
deaths and 10 prostrations.
Newark, 9 deaths and 20 prostra-
tions.
Long Islsnd City, DEATHS and 13 pros
trations.
Patterson, Il deaths and prostra-
tions.
Hackensack, deaths and 5 prostra-
tions.
Passaic, deaths and prostrations. |
Hobollen, Z deaths, 16 prostrations. |
THIRTY DEATHS IN CHICAGO.
Chicago, H., Aug. IA good |
breeze tempered the heat to the suffer |
ing people of this city to-day, although |
40 bav |
only one degree lower than yesterday. |
The deadly effects of the high tempera-
ture, however, continued and 80 fatal |
cases OF sun-stroke were reported at |
midnight with the list still incomplete. |
About so cases of prostration more or |
less serious, have also occurred.
\ shower at o'clock sensiBly cooled |
off the atmosphere, but only for
short time The weather man promis-
es cooler tomorrow.
OVER TWENTY PROSTRATIONS.
st. Louis, No, Aug. 1.-THE ther-
mometer mounted upward again to-
day and came within three points Of
the highest registered thus far this |
year At O'Clock the government re-
cord was ~ in the shade and since |
then there has not been much of a
decline There is very little breeze
stirring and the atmosphere is sitting.
Many prostrations have resulted and |
the city dispensaries and hospitals are
again feeling the rush. Up to S o'clock
tonight 90 cases of prostrations were
received at the Central dispensary and
as many more at the North and South
branches.
TEN DEATHS IN BALTIMORE.
Baltimore, Md, Aug. 11.-Baltimore i