The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-08
COOL WAVE COMING
Hot Wave Will Pass Away
on Monday Says the
Weather Clerk.
OVERCOME BY THE HEA 7
Uoboken Has Many Sufferers
Fatalities Reported in
st. Louis.
OVERCOME BY THE HEAT

II will be gratifying to swelterfi1g hu-
manity to learn that the clerk OF the
weauher has ordered cooler days; out thes
won't be here until Monday. Although
today is not as hot as yesterday, YET X
was an exceptionally sultry day ror All
gust.
II can promise little relief today, sac
the clerk OF the weather 1T VIII PROD
ably be as hot as it was Yesterday, nut
there will be less humidity in the ar
There was a fall In the temperature
during the night, but at 5 O'Clock ths
morning it was two degrees higher tnan
it was yesterday morning. The tempera-
ture during the night dropped TO ~. wnich
was the lowest point reached this moptn-
ssThere is every prospect that the warm
wave will continue and that Tomorrow
will. be warmer.
.sThe low temperature which began yes
terday afternoon ana continued duriag
mart of the night. was due to the two
.hunderstorms whick we had. During the
first 80 inches fell and during the second
storm 10, making In all SO inches of rain
a heavy fall.
Il look for a relief from the hot wave
Monday. Tnece may be thunder storms
A1bC1 ~ oAA0
Yesterdays humidity was SO per cent,
while today it is II per cent. lower.
A ramber of prostrations by heat were
reported in Jersey City and the vicinity
TO-DAY. In Jersey City these are the cases:
Patrick O,DonneM, Is years old, of No.
274 Ninth street, was overcome by the
heat at Grove and Tenth streets last even
ing. He was carried to his home by
friends.
Timothy Reardon. of n q. 2s West
Forty-hfth street, New York, was over
come by the heat at the foot OF Sixth
street yesterday afternoon. He was re-
moved to ST. Francis Hospital and IS
still confined in that institution.
Frank Stevenson, Is years old, of No. 81
Garland avenue, Brooklyn, a newsboy
working at the Central Railroad station,
was overcome by the heat yesterday at
ternoon. He was taken home by friends.
There were no less h six cases OF
g : &C. in Hoboken : y y ,faaa FL; aft ter
effects of Old Soils scorcffng rays and
succumbed. The victims were
Adams and Fourth streets, overcome by
the heat while at work at No. so Bloom
field street, and taken to the hospital,
Edward Beigm, thirty-eight years of
age, of No. 10 Charles street, Jersey City.
Begin is a waiter employed at Schlich-
ter's restaurant at No. 80 Hudson street.
He was taken to the hospital.
John Mcfarland, of No. 234 Harrison
street, Brooklyn, was overcome by the
heat at the Barclay street ferry. Hobo
ken, and was carried to st. Mary's Hos
pital after being attended to by DR..
Pindar.
The next victim was an unknown man
employed on a new building on Newark
street near Bloomfield. He had to be
taken TO the hospital in the patrol wagon
as the ambulance was being used up in
the Second precinct to take another sun
.SIguck man to the hospital.
This was Nick Jen, a laborer OF the
coal barge Jolly Hannah. lying at Four
teenth street.
The hast and most seriously injured vic
tim of the day was o Lang, a .padntber,
of No. 44 Spring street, West Hoboken.
Lang was engaged in painting the nav
gasometer at Clinton and Twelfth streets,
Hoboken- He was high up in the air
on a ladder when he became dizzy with
the terrific heat reflected from the shin
ing sides of the big gasometer and fell.
His drop was about 30 feet. Half way
down he struck a stone coping. He was
taken TO the hospital, where it was
fnjured- The sunstroke and the fall
combine to make Lang's cover doubt
I'LL.