The herald., 1896-07-30
|NSUFFERABLY
''''' L I07 WEATHER
Follows Fast After the
Storms
Temperature RECORDS broken
In Many Mississippi Valley
States
ST. LOUIS SUFFERS MOST
Numerous Prostrations and Several
Deaths From Sunstroke
Numerous ProstratiGns and Several
Deaths From SunstrOke
Central Ohio Furnishes Variety by Reporting
Tornado
From Seacoast 70 River, From Lakes to Gulf
Come Tidings of Wcetfcr Which
flakes Life Not Worth
Living
Associated Press Snecial Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
ST. LOUIS. July 29.-There appears
to be no abatement of the terrible hea,
that has prevailed here since Gunday
Today the thermometer in the sigma,
service office marked Sc degrees in the
shade, a maximum, but this was eX.
ceeded by several degrees on the streets
Suffering humanity has had no reliei
since Sunday, the Thermometers even at
night remaining above the so mark.
More than twenty-five persons suf.
fering from heat prostration were treat.
ed at the city dispensary and at the va,
rious hospitals throughout st. Louis to-
day. Two deaths are reported, and it Is
feared four or five other victims VIII
also die. One of those whose death rel
suited from sunstroke was Frederick
Toussaint, aged 62, a prominent tailor
in the Southern hotel. Richard Tassell
a laborer, was the other victim.
The terrors of the heat today found
their full climax at the City hospital
where the physicians and attendant.
were kept busy all day and until mid
night receiving and attending to pa.
tients. The number of cases of heat
prostrations sent to the hospital as Sc.
and two others are expected to die at any
moment Henry Meyers, who was sen,
to the hospital Monday suffering from
| the heat, insisted on leaving the institu-
ton this morning, declaring he was all
| right. He was brought back this after.
noon utterly Frustrated, and did not raj.
ly. dying shortly afterward Henry
Welp machinist, and George Beard,
mason, We're brought to the hospital to.
night, and it is thought they cannot live
One death occurred in East ST LOUIS
George Carr, an employe of the Wiggins
Ferry company, succumbing from the
effects of the heat.
Police reports from the different dis.
tricts in the city show that thirty-sis
horses We're Frustrated today. Reports
from different points in Illinois and Mis-
souri, indicate that the weather is still
worse there than in st. Louis At Wells
vile, Mo, yesterday and today We're the
hottest days experienced there in ten
years. Last night at o'clock the ther-
mometer registered 80, and today at
p m. 106 in the shade. During the past
three days the thermometer has ranged
| between SO and 104 in the shade at Mex,
leo, Mo. The following records are for
Illinois towns:
Eureka 9S, Alton 102, Mount Vernon
102, and the heat is causing much sick.
ness among children; Virginia 1O5.
From other places: Louisville 104.
many cases of sunstroke; Benton 102.
Carlisle 102.
AN OHIO TORNADO.
| CINCINNATI. July 29.-The Conn
| mercial-Tribune special report:
SIDNEY, O., July pa tornado
struck this region at o'clock this after
nhoon. The hills protected the city, but
| the houses We're unroofed and trees
twisted off. 1t was worse in the country
but no loss OF life has thus far been re-
| ported.
The Commercial Tribune special re-
| ports of tornadoes, storms and floods
from the following towns:
Upton, Ind.-The Third ward school
| house, fired by lightning burned today;
| loss, $40, 900; hundred dwellings, with
in four squares of the river are flooded
| tonight; hundreds of head of livestock
| have been drowned. Jesse Welchel was
drowned in his own flooded barnyard to-
day trying to save some of his live
stock.
Elwood Ind.-The loss in the rural dis
tricts will be fully $4,000. Oats and
cornfelds are still submerged, and will
remain SO several days.
Blulfton, Ind.-This afto~rooa Il t.
nado swept over this country, clearing
everything before it. Its track was q
! few miles north of that of yesterdays
| storm. Dwellings were overturned and
the Methodist church was unroofed at
Liberty Center.
! Milford Ohio-The lightning in the fu-
| rious rainstorm here last night destroy
ed barns entailing $4,000 loss. Three
| members of John Shafers family were
struck by lightning, but We're not fatally
| injured.
Portsmouth, Ohio-The loss and dam
age by the present flood in this vicinity
| is confined to corn crops and will foot up
| $125.000
Athens, Ohio-A hurricane and deluge
of rain visited this region last midnight.
| Two valuable barns were struck by
lightning and destroyed. A large -four
ing mill was struck and badly damaged.
| Springfield Ohio--At o'clock tonight
a tornado, accompanied by thunder.
lightning and heavy rain struck the
| northwest portion of the city, and tra-
versed southeast, tearing up trees and
J unroofing houses. Mrs Kinney's rest