Evening star., 1896-08-13
ONLY SLIGHT RELIEF GIVEN
Temperature Drops Somewhat in the Eastern
Cities.
Deaths From Heat Continue 10 BE Re-
ported I'm New York, Brooklyn,
Philadelphia and Boston.

NEW YORK, August 13.-The heated term
in New York and vicinity has not come Ia
a close, but its violence has subsided ap-
preciably. At 1870 o'clock this morning the
thermometer in the weather observers
tower indicated 81 degrees, against So de-
grees at the same hour yesterday. An eight
mile breeze was blowing from the northeast.
On the streets the temperature was any
where from 81 to IS degrees. The humidity
was then TO per cent. The records at police
headquarters showed ten deaths from heat
between and am. and seven prostra-
tions. The dead are: Henry Won Der Emde,
thirty-eight; Catherine Tucker, fortNeight;
Mary Herby, twenty; Martin McDonough,
seven months; Mrs. George Weidenwak
nifty: VIM. Dreutler, SeVenty-one Robert
Gibson, thirty; Frederick A. Bowen,
'enty: Marcus Scrub thirty-seven; Police
man Walter r. Bray.
A statement prepared by the bureau of
vital statistics of New York city covering
the period from midnight of Saturday to
noon today tfive days., todays figures be-
ing partly estimated, shows a total of DOE
deathS, OF which 434 are attributed to the
heat An unofficial estimate of the number
OF deaths from heat in New York, Brookiyn
and the neighborinG cities and towns in New
York state and New Jersey, which covers
the period from August . TO II, inclusive, is
GIL
The prostrations for the same period are
said to have numbered 1255
Eleven deaths from the heat have been
reported IN Brooklyn up to l O'Clock. The
names of the dead follow Frederick Wen
lsche, aged forty George w. Curtis;
John Salmon, sixty-five; John Gallagher
thirty; Warner ]. Wetherby. forty-five;
Annie Markus. eighty-five; Margaret Hol-
den, seventy; George Smith, four months;
Thomas Walsh, thirty-one; Eliza beth Meis-
teck, fifty-niEe; Kate Mahr, seventy-two.
AT l:3o pm. the police records showed
dfNi tpol n Ief L.
this city and fourteen more prostrations.
Dead-John McNally, aged fifty-three;
Edward Burke, Fred Geisker forty-fiye:
Chas. Boland. John McEwen, tifty-four;
Catherine Burns, Thos. Powers, John Bra
dy, twenty-seven; Ernest Cassel, thirty:
Jacob Spaclin, thirty-four; John McLaugh-
lin. forty-eight; Frank Bernstein, thirty
three; Mrs. VIM. H. Simms. Frank Mar
terts, John O'Brien, Kiernan Claffy, Adolph
Werner.
Philadelphia the Hottest City.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, August 13.-Ac-
cording to the weather bureau reports.
Philadelphia suffers the unenviable distinc-
ton today of being the hottest city I'm the
United States. At am. the thermometer
registered - degrees, one point below yes
terday at the same hour, with 81 per cent
Of humidity distributed through the at
mosphere. At noon the mercury had climb
ed steadily upward, until thermometers on
the street registered % degrees. A light
breeze tempered the awful heat slightly,
but the suffering was as great as on any
day since the torrid spell began, ten days
ago Between am. and IL o'clock five
deaths due to heat exhaustion had been
reported to the coroner as follows: Maggie
Burke, aged thirty; John Swift, forty-onc;
Catharine Brannon, sixty: Hugh Mclean,
sixty: William Hackett forty.
Reports from cities all around Philadel-
phia show that the weather is from to :
degrees cooler today than yesterday.
Weather bureau officials say that tonight
and tomorrow there will be slight change
for the better, but not the decided drop in
temperature that the people have been
looking and hoping for.
Brief Rain at Boston.
BOSTON, August 13.-A brief rain had
the effect of clearing the atmosphere this
morning, and as result life is more bear
able than at any time since Sunday. Two
deaths and five prostrations by heat is the
record at police headquarters up to IL
o'clock. The victims are:
Dead-Wm. Boylan, forty-five years
Brighton: Patrick Hollahan, fif.y-tive
years, Boston.
Prostrations-Dela Carroll twcnty-eght
years Charlestown; James BatemAn, twen-
ty-eight years, RoXbury; John Carroll,
forty years Boston; Thomas Cocroft, forty
six years. Boston; Marion Cunka, Boston.