The herald., 1896-08-12
ANOTHER DAY OF
FR|GHTFUL HEAT
Afflicts the Residents in
the East
NEH YODK'S hHFUL LIST OF DEAD
Contains Names of a Hundred
People
CITY HOSPITALS CROWDED
The Tenement House Districts Flooded by
Firemen
CITY HOSPITALS CROWDED
The Tenement House Districts Flooded by
Firemen
And Miserable People Seek Relief In the
Soaking Streams
Weather Bureau Observers Promise Relief
to Those Who Are Still Alive
After Twenty Four Hours
More of Hades
Associated Press Special Wire.

n Associated FreSS Speclal wire.
NEW YORK. Aug. 11.-Another day
of the fearful heat which is expressing
this section has added a page of fatali-
tiles and suffering more remarkable
than its predecessors. In New York
city, in Brooklyn and all the adjacent
towns, and throughout the states of New
York and New Jarsey, today's reports
of death and prostrations overshadow
the record of any other day in many
years. In this city alone, the death list
for twenty-four hours footed up at mid
right more than 100 names. Brooklyn
adds about twenty to the list and the
heat victims in the suburban towns
bringing the total to $50. Men and wo-
men walking along the streets have
dropped in their tracks and died before
physicians could be summoned and
horses have died as though stricken
by a plague.
Many factories have been closed and
out door workers have been compelled
to drop their tools and find shelter dur
ing the hours when the sun was hottest.
Particularly among policemen and let
ter carriers has the suffering been in
tense and many have been compelled to
stop work. The hospitals of this city
are crowded to their full capacity, While
the doctors and nurses have been kept
at work night and day until many OF
them have succumbed to the strain. The
department of public works has come to
the relief of the tenement house dis
tricts and forces of men with hose carts
are patrolling the streets of these sec
T., Tow.
the corner hydrants. Men, women and
children rush in crops under the
streams from the hose and the night
scenes among the tenements as the re-
lief parties make their rounds are un-
precedented. Unless tomorrow brings
rain many prostrations are looked for
in the Madison Square garden meeting
and preparations are being made for d
special force of medical men and special
dmbulances.
The thermometer for the past six
nights has fallen but few degrees from
the limits registered during the hottest
part of the day. The heat on Monday
night held almost stationary at 81 de-
grees until 4 o'clock on Tuesday morn
ing. AS soon as the sun began to ascend
previous records for August 11th were
broken. The highest previous record
for August 18th was 90 degrees in 1891
and 92 degrees in 1892, While the register
upon the top of the Manhattan Life in
surance building, where the weather bu-
reau is situated, showed 90. degrees and
the humidity, which was far worse than
the boiling sun, stood at 20, and down
on the streets it was not less than five
degrees warmer The official tempera-
ture beginning at noon was as follows:
Twelve noon, 80; pm, SO; 2 pm, SO;
4 pm, SO; pm, 90; pm, 50; and p.
M, 80, and up to midnight the tempera-
ture did not drop but a few degrees,
registering 50.
In Jersey City there We're twenty deaths
and twenty-eight prostrations. On Sta
ten island fourteen deaths and nineteen
prostrations. Newark, nine deaths and
thirteen prostrations; Long Island City,
five deaths and six prostrations; Hack
ensack, two deaths and five prostrations;
Passaic, three deaths and six prostra-
tions; IToboken, seven deaths and six
teen prostrations.
The total prostrations in New York
and Brooklyn is estimated al 200
IN MISSOURI
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1.-THE thermom-
eter mounted upward again today and
came within three points of the highest
registered thus far this year. At 8
o'clock the government record was 81 in
the shade and since then there has not
been much of decline. There is very
little breeze stirring and the atmos-
phere is sitting. Many prostrations
have resulted. A number of deaths oc-
Cured.
IN CANADA
MONTREAL, Aug. 11.-Montreal is suf-
fering severely from heat. The mercury
is at 81 and one iean died of sunstroke
which is an usual thing here
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 11.-The fear
full heat continued today. Up to mid
night seven deaths and forty-seven
prostrations had been reported.
IN MARYLAND.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 11.-Ien fatalities
and thirty prostrations have been chron-
icled here today. The maximum tenn
perature indicated was 80 between ;
and p. m.
IN WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE reliaf