The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-11
HORSES FALL BY HUNDREDS.
Factories Closed and 0ut-of- Door
Work Largely Suspended.
Terrible Suffering I'm the Tenements-
Forty-five sunstroke Deaths in One
reau says There VIII he at Least
Two DAYS More of the Hot Spell.

York today is Isl. and additional victims
are being reported hourly. The prossra-
tEons are almost innumerable and no ac-
c1iTats statement OF them can be rnaae.
Amouianees and patrol wagons have been
running about all day. the sound OF their
/ gozgs becoming familiar. Street car
horses have dropped in their tracks by
scores out-of-6oor work has been large
ly suspended. ana factories are tempo
raTtly closed. Last night was the hottest
| OF The summer. the climax OF the present
| torr.d spell and one OF the hottest known
| Ia the city fer years. Morning brought
no RELIEF. and az a. m. the Thermometer
stood al 81. degrees higher than at the
same hour on Sunday. but as the humid
| lIy was less Intense than on the preced-
ing day. there was less discomfort Ear,y
in the morning there was but 80 per cent
or humidity. which Is rather below the
normal The maximum temperature, 50
degrees. wes reached at 4 p. m. These
readings are taken on top OF one OF the
highest buildings tn the city. The street
temperature. taken in the shade at a
point near the center OF the city. was ss
al . a. m. 81 at II. - at .. m. I0e al 4.
- a. and - at 9 p. m.
The suffering has been most intense In
the tenement section. where poor people
are unable 10 get breathing space. In
these sections the charitable organaza-
tons have had their hants fun. many in
fants and children succumblng 10 sun
stroke. The hospitals We're Obliged 10 call
on the police department TO aid them IN
responding TO calls. as their ambulances
could not cope with the number of cases
reported So the 7olice patrol wagons
were pressed into service TO carry heat
victims to the hospitals. Many other
wagons We're used TO carry away dead and
disabled animals.
At midnight there was no relief from the
strain of the past week. and on thousands
IA TUE Iler
get sleep.
The revised list OF the deaths today
from, the heat in this city. Brooklyn,
Jersey City. Hoboken. Brunswick. New
ark and Staten Island give the names OF
seventy persons
AT Boston and other cities in New En-
gland there are the same conditions as ex-
| ist here. Providence. r. l.. reports three
deaths and two prostrations.
Chicago, Aug. iG.-The continued heat
| has greatly affected police patrolmen and
| letter carriers. About fifty of the latter
hav@been compelled to quit work. and two
or three may die. Some of the big depart
ment stores have, during the last few
days. practically been turned into hos-
| pitals. The girl clerks have tainted by
dozens al their counters and hundreds OF
them have quit work on account OF the
heat. Forty five persons have died today
from heat Last week 81 deaths were re-
ported TO tho department or health, which
is the largest for any week in many years.
IL IS estimated that over loo animals,
killed by the heat, are lying in different
parts of the city. and the authorities adj
init that they are unable to remove the
animals promptly.
IL began 10 grow uncomfortably
warm here at early dawn. A steady
hot wind blew over the city from
the marshes beyond the southern limit.
The heat r. terrible. even on the lake
ri h. naff
plenty abound. but in the poverty-strickon
tenement districts the agony is awful TO
contemplate. Ambuiances and patrol
wagons were on the run all night. bearing
victims OF the heat 20 hospitals. The first
death from the heat reported today was
thai Of Fred Retter. a laborer. Herman
Ashe and Thomas Wonabonb were report
ed as having died of heat during the night
The coroner's Office was never so busy.
The total list OF victims of heat prostra-
tions on Sunday numbered sixty-flve. or
these twenty-five are dead, ten are ex-
pected TO die and three were driven insane
by the heat OF the three driven insane
by the heat. one ended his life
by poison and another attempted
% slash his throat with a razor.
The dead Of Sunday are: Charles
Buckstedt. Dennis Catmody. John Calosh-
| leth, George Carr. Charles Champion, Rob
ert Duid. . years: John Emil. % years old;
| James German, y: Robert Guguid. 81;
Michael Hagos, John Hartman, I month;
Patrick Hogan. s.. Mary joyce. n: VIII
lam I.Sde 20. John Marion, Michael Marz.
| a. Justin Poinaska, %; Stephen Schrerer.
| Vincent Schiedsky. Mrs. Ella Walton 2s;
unknown man. Those driven insane from
| the heat are: Michael EuTight, attempted
| 20 take bis life by cutting his throat with
RrazoF. now az his home Ia a critical con-
! dition: Frederick KhroHe. took poison.
| died al bis home; ]. ". Johnson. rendered
| Insane. taken 10 police station.
Indianapolis, Aug. 10.-There were two
deaths ia thls city today as result of
| the intense heat.
Washington CITY. Aug. 10-Ma1. Dun
/ woody the weather forecaster. scanned
| the map tonight In vain for a prospect Of
/ relief from me terrible heat under which
| the country has been sWeltering for the
| past week IL was slightly cooler Ia the
| ohio valley. and the lower lake region was
| given a slight breathing spell BY thunder
| storms. The temperature has also fallen
| sfghtly in the Mississippi valley. the mer-
| curry today registering bat e, as against
| s. at -. Louis and Chicago yesterday.
| But on the prairies of Nehrasizs and Kan
| sss and TO the southward along the Gulf,
/ humanity struggled TO exist At 10 de-
| ryees. The Atlantic coast as far As BOs-
/ ton. showed very high temperatures. ~
| the latter place II was as. which was also
! The maximum az Atlantic City. The same
! temperature existed At Albany. There IS
| no prospect for relief In this locality to-
/ morrow.
Away up in the extreme North west IN
| The Rockies however. Ma. punwoo3y
saw q ray of hope. The barometer had
| risen there To-Day and had fallen N the
/ lower central valleys and the lake region.
/ II these high and low areas develop. The
nor spell wlu he broken. "B8t even that
/ i furo DAYS away said the weather sharp
a. re shook his head
! The temperature here today was not as
| high as yesterday. fhe maximum being
81 as against s. There was ore death
/ ans six prostrsticns
| =: Less. Aug. l8.-There were not 80
| rany p-ostrat50ns teiay IS On previous
/ 6Avs - the not sTen. a cool Eind temper
| inr the heat and there ere prospects that
e.s5.e~ weather wsH prevail for a time
! AtSa IL the therwnFretsr registered =,
ard : degrees were ADDED - thss during
( ere CAV Tsals - : degrees lover than TIE
/ rsvAesf @o1at raa 4e1 hers yesterday.
i Ssge- deaths were RECORDED. Elast .
+ fAS-n he5ng yletla1s Who were prostratea
Yesterday Fo1r deaths from s2astross
1 vras-h were rot made puaic untu today
{ n-~gs~re4 ias- nfEAt- The deaths = ihss
( r5tv aus ElrseGT % hsat since August I
{ rursssar ssxasy-ggre. II - noted tAat fully
I sessr-afthS of these dsalNs have been 81
i adults 50. verv fsm NeTe worsen- Most
+ - ths Victims nAve hesn apons the iaSsar-
la c-zssSs, ard a. least tsS-fG-sos - s2ss