River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-08-13
HEAT KILLS SCORES.
A Total of 161 Deaths Reported
for One Day.
A Hot Sunday the Country Oyer-Mer-
curry In Thermometers Hovers About
the One Hundred MARIA Wide
Territory Covered.

Chicago, Aug. I0.-From dispatches
ii is learned that deaths from heat
in various cities throughout the union
aggregated 161.
~. Louis Great Sufferer.
St. Louis. Aug. l0.-Last week was
one of the hottest on record in st.
Louis for many years. Saturday for
the third successive day St. Louis led
the entire country at seven a. IN. with
temperature of So degrees. From that
on until four o'clock p. m. the tenn
perature rose at the rate of one degree
or More an hour. At that time the Their
mometer in the signal service bureau
registered 100 degrees in the shade,
the highest point of the day. The rec
ord on the streets and unexposed places
WAS over 100.
There was no cessation in heat pros
tlations. A number of victims who had
been lowering between life and death for
three days suecumbed. Many industries
are badly crippled by the inroads the
heat has made among their employees.
The death roll for Saturday numbers Is.
There were "a cases of prostration
treated at the city hospitals up to 81, cn
p m.
On Sunday the thermometer ranged
from 81 degrees at eight a. m. to 100
degrees at five p. M, and the death roll
is not diminished. All day the city
ambulances have been carrying pa
tients to the dispensary and corpses
to the morgue. Many of those stricken
several days ago have succumbed TO
the Jng-continued strain of torrid days
and sleepless nights. Deaths from this
cause are now so common as to hardly
excite remark. At five p. m. one ambu-
lance hauled five patients to the dis
pensary and completed its journey by
taking two corpses from the dispensary
to the morgue. Since midnight Satur-
day the deaths recorded number H.
Up TO nine p. IN. over 40 cases of pros
tration had been reported, the ma jor-
ity of them being serious.
At Chicago.
Chicago, Aug. 1O.-Saturday was the
hottest day of the scorching, deadly
series of last week, and the list of
victims was the largest. There were
SIX dea his reported. The temperature
al eight a. IN. was 81. and il continued to
rise steadily until % degrees was re-
corded at three o'clock. This record
made il the hottest August day in the
history of the Chicago weather bur
eau. Four prostrated victims were re-
moved to hospitals from the streets
where they were working or from stores
and their recovery is not expected. A
score or more of men and women were
overcome, but nearly all of them are out
of danger. Horses drawing heavy loads
dropped dead by the score in the streets
from early morning to late at night
Outdoor labor was practically sus-
pended for the day except where it was
absolutely necessary.
4 Hot Sunday.
Unabated heat dealt death to Chica-
goans Sunday. Prostrations, despite the
quiet of the day, were reported in every
quarter of the city. The thermometer
reached 90 at four p. m. At midnight
Sunday il stood at SIS. At that hour
10 deaths from heat had been reported
to the health department. The police
cared for 81 cases of prostration, II of
them resulting fatally. The total deaths
due to heat for the last five days are 36.
Heavy Increase in the Death Rate.
Nearly all the 100 deaths reported to the
health department for Friday were
traceable more or less directly to the
heat. The awful record of deaths for
six days of last week is t92. The average
death list for Chicago is so day, which
would make the deaths for the last six
days 200 above the average.
Many Dead In New York.
New York, Aug. 1O.-The suffering of
the New Workers Sunday was intense.
Profiting by the general cessation from
labor and business cares which Sunday
brings and by the warnings issued from
the experts of the weather bureau,
thousands of people flocked to the sea-
shore resorts. About four p. m. the
thermometer of the weather bureau
touched 90 degrees as the highest point
for the day. The official figures are
necessarily lower than those shown by
the thermometers on the pavements,
where the highest point touched was
95. A large number of persons were
overcome by the heat during the day.
and up to six o'clock Sunday evening
% fatal cases had been reported to the
coroner's Office. The heat was also in
were reported in that city. Eleven
deaths and AZ prostrations was Satur-
days record in this city.