The herald., 1896-08-10
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SOME RELIEF FROM HEAT
Reported by the SweIteriug Citizens Of
Missouri
the Heated Term-A Frightful List
Of Prostrstions Reported
AssncInted Pross Speclal Wire.

| has prevailed in Kansas City and vicin-
| ity. The maximum temperature
today as reported by the United
i States weather bureau was 81, which is
| the lowest maximum temperature since
Monday last, when 81 was reached
On Friday the record was 102, but the
| extreme heat was reached on Saturday
| at p. m.. when the weather bureau
reported 103 Notwithstanding that the
weather has been unusually hot and the
| spell of long duration, there have been
comparatively few prostrations and but
| two deaths. which are directly attribu
| table to the heat.
On Friday night, Illarie Miro, chief of
at the Kansas City club, drank copious-
| ly of ice water while in an overheated
condition and died a few minutes later.
James Carney, a driver was Frustrated
on the street on Thursday and died on
the following day from the effects of
sunstroke. The death rate during the
week has been heavy the extreme heat
having aggravated the Affections of the
seriously ailing, but the two cases men
toned are the only two directly attribu-
table to the heat. A high wind has pre-
vailed most of the time during the week,
affording considerable relief.
AN AWFUL. WEEK.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 9.-Never before in
the history of st. Louis have it's inhabi-
tants suffered so much from the heat as
during the week just ended. The highest
point reached by the mercury was 100
in the shade, and on no day was the
maximum below s5 On the streets the
heat was more intense. City Physician
Suffer declared tonight that the record
of heat prostrations and deaths at the
hospital for the past week is unprece-
dented in it's history He reports that
10 cases, all serious, were cared for and
that nineteen of these died while more
are still in critical condition. This is
not the complete record for the city for
at least that many more cases were ta-
ken to the dispensaries, where many
died, and others were sent to their
homes for treatment Today the highest
reached by the thermometer was 80 in
the shade. Twenty victims of the heat
were brought to the city hospital be-
tween o'clock in the afternoon and
midnight and two of these died Others
will die.
RAIN BRINGS RELIEF.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 9-Ninety
was the highest point reached by the
mercury today, heavy rain lowering
the temperature several degrees and
causing a break in the five days of hot
Since, Sine fSsathi iprostfari6ns or deaths
were reported today. During the week
the death rate in the city has more than
doubled, owing, physicians say, to the
extreme heat Fatal cases of sunstroke
in the city and vicinity number eight
to date.
A wind storm of cyclonic nature
struck Milwaukee at o'clock tonight.
Several buildings were unroofed, small
structures demolished, signs blown
down and swept through the streets,
shade trees thrown down and other
damage done. A number of small boats
were on the bay, but it cannot be learn
ed whether there has been any loss of
life.
STILL SCORCHING
CHICAGO, Aug. s.-Again today the
sun scorched this city and the records
| Of deaths and prostrations will approach
those Of yesterday. The fatal cases of
sunstrol1e up to 10 o'clock numbered
| SIX. Wllllt several OiueTS were lOl tA
pected to live. The fatal prostrations
were not of the very serious character,
though there We're over thirty. Many
people were mentally affected and on
one of the bridges the police had a strug
gle With Swede of giant strength who
attempted to throw p s,ple into the river.
| The heat had made him crazy.
The temperature indicated many pc
| culiarities during the day. The lowest
point was &c degrees at II o'clock and
the mercury remained almost stationary
at that figure until > o'clock. At 3 o'clock
It jumped TO sc and at o'clock it was
90, the highest mark touched. While
the highest was five degrees less than
that of yesterday, the people suffered
lust as much and the fatalities show that
the heat was equally dangerous to life.
PITTSBURG FATALITIES
PITTSBURG, Aug. 9.-Thomas Ed
wards, city employe, died at the Soutf
Side hospital at 1 o'clock this morning il
terrible agony as a result of sunstroke
Edwards death makes two fatalitie:
during the week. Within the same per
iod there were four prostrations. Th'
thunder storm this evening was happy
relief from as hot a day as this sum
mer has produced, the mercury regis
tering SO degrees.
A STORM RAGING
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. "a terribl'
storm is raging in Omaha and Easter
Nebraska tonight This is the clima!
of a week of terrible heat, in which th'
thermometer has fluctuated on both side
of the 100 mark nearly all the time.
Though the humidity has been something
awful. and a number of prostration
have occurred, no fatalities have re
suited The mercury was close to 9
, all day, but tonight has dropped belov
so S a result Of the storm.
FIFTY SOLDIERS SUNSTRUCK
CLEVELAND, Aug. 9.-The heat ha
been intense here today. At Z ocloc
gle with a Swede of giant strength VIII
At 2 p. m. it had risen to 90 and at
this evening it was at 9S. Three prostra
tions are reported today, one fatal. Dur
| ing dress parade of the national guar
, encampment this afternoon fifty mill
T tiamen were prostrated with heat. A
the men will recover.
S IN NEW YORK CITY
: NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Fifty person
, died in the Greater New York distriC
today as a result of the extreme he
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