Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-08-12

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crate Weather Soon-A Cold
Wave From the West, and @
Storm From The West Indies.
New York. August 11-Ano,her day
OF the fearful heat when is Cpp.es5.As
this scct.cn. aas aGd1l d page OF La.'l--
,tes and suffering NOR remarkable t11A
us predecessors. IN, NtT lJIh, .-
Brooklyn, and al ,he adjacen, 10"
and throughout the States OF Ne" 1c.h
and New Jersey tl1 c@y s IepJi.a O.
deaths ard prosrat-ons oFoisd@no"
the record o. any C-ler day IN many
years.
In this city alone The dean us, lc-
th4 u hours. ioo.ad UP al m-ln-sA,,
contains mere than lc9 names; B-o0A.!h
adds abou, 20 20 JA5 LIST, and ne A.@e
victims in che suburban towns Oi-ns'
tne ,o,al TO $50.
4leA and women walking along the
streets have dropped in tae-r tracks ana
ili5d before physicians coC.t Dc sum
mCaed. and hClsss have cled rs -Ao1s--
stricken d. plague.
Alcng The business streets meA nave
walked WIKI umbrellas over ,leit AI-.D'
win coa.s on ,ler arms and rams 81
their hands. IIo hospitals OF tAe c-'t
are crowded 10 lha.r iUll capacity "-i..
the doctors ard nurses have bee- ",'-
p. work night aad day uatl m4L' ci
tlem have succumb6t 10 the sI2ln l-s
department Of public works mas come
TO dle reuei OF the ,enem5n, AJH-, "ia-
,ricts and forces OF men Witn aos- CARTS
are patrOlling the streets o. ,-es soc
icas and flooding .h n MIA Vl-ci ii--t
,he corner hyGran.s. Men, women ana
children rusD IN groups uI.eI t"t
streams on the hose and the nis-j scenes
among ihe ,eucm6nts as ,le lc..a' n~r-
ties make their rounds are unplecede---
ed. Unless tomorrow uIgnt lrnsa t--
tef many prosraiOus are looked Tor
IL The Madison Square Garden meeting,
ana preparalJns are Dclus made for
special .crCe Of medical men and -of
special am1ulancCs.
The thoruom, ter has Tor the past Sis
nights fallen bat few degrees from the
limits REGISTERED during the hottest pare
OF the Gay. Th, heat ou MoA-ay mig At
held almost stationary az ST degrees artl
f O'Clock on Tuesday moniar and ae
soon as the sun began 10 ascend tuc tncr-
mom,t,r did likewise until AN previous
records for August j. were broken. The
highest previous record for August i was
o. degrees in "a aud s- degrees il ~.
while to-day it registered on top of tine
Manhattan Life Insurance co. Luiails.
where the weather bureau is situated.
40 q .f g.
far worse than the Uoims sun. stood at
20. and down on the streets it "as not
less than five degrees warmer The oa!-
cial temperature. beginning at noon. "Hs
as follows:
y uooE go; p. m. 50; . p. M. 90: Q %. u..
93.5;tp.St 93; p. H.. 93; p. n.. 81. and
j.. m. go and up 70 midnight the temnerN-
ture did not drop but a few poiats. g,--
ister,ng 50.
Chicago. August 1.-THE harvest Of
death from hel1 conlnu in this city.
TaCve were 81 victims yesterday. Al
; O'Clock this m,ll.Eg the thermometer
registered ~ d g.eea at the TOD Of the
Auditorium tower. - stories from tle
g.ound. 1t Z o'c.Cck Ii was II degrees,
and at 9 o'clock j. was So degrees. IL
tle close SITTING ton ment quarters, sur
rounded by dead animals and festering
fermentng garbage, the aeat was 100
per cent more Intense and fatal
ST. LOUIS. 4Io. August little ther-
mome,cr mounted ur~ard again to-day
and at o'clock the record was 9. Many
Irostrali1us have uilcd and the city
di-uensarics srI hospitals ar. again feel
i,,.- +l,. .ff,.. o.. of tI. ril.. t'u 600 O.,.O.