The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-14
A DEATH ROLL OF 800.

New York Victims-Seventy4T
 Hundred strations-Weather Was
 Cooler Yesterday.
 New York, Aug 13.--The heated term in New York and vicinity has not come to a close, but It's violence has subsid- ed appreciably. At 10:S0 o'clock this morning the thermometer in the wealth CT observers tower indicated S2 degrees against S5 degrees at the same hour yesterday, An eight-mile breeze was blowing from the northeast. On the streets the thermometer was anywhere from S4 to SS degrees. The humidity was then 65 per cent The records at police headquarters showed ten deaths from heat between and a. m., and seven prostrations. The dead are:
 Henry Von Der Ende, aged 38; Cath erine Tucker, As; Mary Herby, 20; Mar tin McDonough, z months; Mrs. George Weidenwak, 50; William Ereutler, 1; Robert Gibson, 30; Frederick Bowen, l 70; Marcus Scrub, 37; Policeman W. F. Bray,
 i Eleven deaths from heat have been reported in Brooklyn up to 10 o'clock. | Dead:
 Frederick Wenisch, aged Al; George w. Curtis; John Salmon, 65, an insur- ance agent; John Gallagher, 30; War ner Wetherby 45; Annie Markus. S5; Margaret Holden, 70; George Smith. 4 months; Thomas Walsh, S1. 1 Prostrations:
 Della Carroll 23 years. Charlestown; James Batenian, 25 years, Roxbury; John Carroll, 40 years, Boston; Thomas Cocroft, 46 years, Boston; Marion Cun- ka, Boston, Elizabeth Meistk, 52; Kate Meher.
 1 A statement prepared by the bureau l of vital statistics of New York city covering the period from midnight or Saturday to noon to-day Give daysD l to-day's figures being partly estimated, 1 shows total of 1,200 deaths, of which ASA are attributed to the heat. 1 An unofficial estimate of the number of deaths from heat in New York, Brooklyn and the neighboring cities and towns in New York state and New Jersey, which covers the period from August to 12, inclusive, is 621. The prostrations for the same period are said to have numbered 1,225.
 Hottest in Philadelphia.
 Philadelphia, Aug. 13.-According to the weather bureau reports, Philadel- phia suffers the unenviable distinction to-day of being the hottest city in the United States. At a. m., the ther- mometer registered S2 degrees and at noon 95 degrees. A light breeze tenn pered the heat slightly, but the suffer- ing was as great as on any day since the torrid spell began.
 Between ? a. m. and Il o'clock, five deaths due to heat exhaustion had been reported to the coroner as follows: l Maggie Burke. aged 30; John Swift, 41; Catherine Brannon, SO; Hugh Me Lean, 60; William Hackett 40.
 Victims of the Heat
 Nashua, N. H., Aug. 13.-Mrs N. Lio- vera, 34 years old, the fourth victim of the heat to meet a fatal end within twentyfour hours, died this morning. The weather is slightly cooler this fore noon.
 I Cambridge, Mass, Aug. 13.-Athol | Kreuger, 22 years old, peddler Of this city, was found dead in Germantown woods this morning. Kreuger com plained of the heat yesterday and . friend advised him to go into the wooGs and cool off, and he seems to have met death while doing so.
 Manchester, N. H., Aug. 13.-James Sullivan, who was overcome by the heal yesterday afternoon, died during the night.
 The thermometer is still high to-day but there is q light breeze blowing which renders the weather more beara- ble.
 Hartford Aug. 13.-The record o1 deaths by heat in Hartford was In creased by three to-day. The victims were Mrs. Mary Egan, Ellory street Margaret Egan, Mechanic street. an6 Mrs. Walters of Governor street.