Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-08-15
DEATHS LENGTHY ROLL
FATALITIES AND SUFFERING FROM
THE HEAT UNPRECEHENVi1D.
Relief for Eastern Iium:init, I"
Come From the Far west
-Nlrea.iH Better.

New York. Aug ll.-Another cay of tn"
fearful neat which il oppressin5 TINS Sec
lion has added a D1gy of fatalities and
suffering more remarkable than it. pre-
,lecessors in New York city. in Brook
lyn ana all the adjacent towns and
,hrouglout The states, 81 New York aa|
New jersey the reports ot d@; tins aili
rrostraaions oycrSi1ad0W the record q
any otEer days in many years. IN ta.1
city alone the death lis for u hours
footed II at milnight NOR" lhan loJ
,!ames brooklyn adds uhout y to th@
list anI the heat victims in Inc ~W@-
lrban towns bring The total 70 l}0.
Men and women walking III" streets
have dropped in their ttacks ana died re
fore physicians could be c1leu, ANA
,orses have died rs though stricken by
plague New York factories have haen
closed ana outIcor wcrImen h"vr been
compelled to drop Iheir tools ana tint
shelter during tha hours when tlle sun
was at its height Particularly among
policemen and letter carriers has the
suffering been intense, and many hav2
been compelled 10 stop work.
to their fun capacity While TIL doctors
and nurses have been kept at work might
and day. until many Of chem hlEe fna-
cumbed 10 the strain. The department.
of public works has como to the relief
Of the tenement house districts. ANA
forces of men with hose carts are patroil-
ing the streets and flooding hem Wi
water from the corner hydrdnts. Men,
women and children rush in groups IN
der the stream from the houses. ana tha
scenes among the tenemcnts, lS the re-
lief parties make their rounds, are ul-
pfecedcnted.
Unless tomorrow brings rain, many
prostrations are looked for III the Nal
ison Square Garden meeting ANA prep-
arations are being made for Il special
force Of medical men and special ambu-
lanccs. The thermometer has for the
past six nights fallen but a few degrees
from the limits registered during tha
hottest part OF the day. Th" heat on
Monday night held almost stationary 1T
81 until / O'Clock on Tuesday morning
ana al soon as the sun began to ascen l
the thermometer did likewise. until All
previous records for August II Wcry bro
ken. The highest previous record for
August II vas - degrees in 1891. and
- degrees in 1852, While the register upon
the top Of the Manhattan Life InsW-
ance building. where the weather bureau
is situated showed 95,5 degrees. Then
the humidity which was far worse than
the boiling sun. stood at %, ara down
on the streets II was not Iess than five
degrees warmer. Following is tho re-
vised list Of deaths:
Kate Dresslel A. Guthrie, Morris Gill
lespie, Emil Erdtman. Patrick Menloa 80
phie Brand, John J. Hagerman Mar
garet WaIbrick August Blozer. August
Lagrando. Michael O'Toole C;oas Nri,t1.
Patrick Ash, Michael Rorty, Herman
Adelhoff, Edward McQuirl Charles Phil
lips, Louis Siegart, Charles Krammer,
Robert Stollenberger, Bridget O'Iara
John Seaman, Charles T.. Lumph |has
Mcdonald, George March, Annie Dillon,
James n. Ousek. Henry Crosse. =, f,
Boyle. Alice Ernest. Michael Duffy, G.
X. Ritlar. August legrand. S. p. jTitz-
gerald. John Bowling, Barnard McC0r.n-
ick, John McGOngle, John Topuch, John
Aarsden, John Neall, Jacob Scnm ~,
John O'Leary, John Hogan. John NcNa!-
ly Patrick Nullisan. Torrance Anderson,
Mary FrOdel, Marsell. Bridget Muloney.
Jacob Cross, Mary Martin William Will
son. an unknown man, John Passe. 10
seph E,npan, Andrew Sheridan, Clara
North. William King, John Jambell
Thomas Burns, Charles Dillman, Sophie
Brannon, George TullmeIter James
Campbell, an unknown woman died al
Bellevue hospital, Edward Hederbrandt
James Cassiday, Francis Mooney, sam
uel Morrisey, Frederick Petrowski Thos.
Powers, Charles Flanagan, Thomas
Creamer. William Williams, Walter
Sedgemonde, George Zeyer, James lin
negan, Patrick Bryan, Jacob AUlt, Robar'
Sayres, August Wydorf, Julius Arminis
John McGee, John Murphy Leo G. Hay@r
Charles Helstreich, Charles $. Halett, 10
seph Jelka Henry Wolf, Nellie Delaney
Daniel Lyons, Louis Ochlin, an unknown
Italian, John Goodwin Andrew Tittm IN
Charles Ritzenthal, Thomas Wind, Louis
Brumier William l.. knight, ChareI $ e.
phenson, Pat Peters, +. \. MorriSidna
John kehoe, Herman Ludwig, Dietrich
Prussen, Henry Mckann, John Taaf@
Patrick O'Nein Mary kerrigan, Martha
Donohue. John ". HaggcrtN, Brooklyn
Patrick Gallogh, Mary Fawcett, Cheste
Stopkfsch, William Lehman, James King
Mr. Nidon Kosk, Lizzie Larkin. John !
Mitchell, George Valentine Michael fili
fin, Martin Schamberter, Rose Fltzzin
mons. Mary Chapman, Joseph St. leon
an unknown man Matthew Mitchell
Thomas McSweenccy.
In Jersey City there We're IL deaths am
y prostrations; on Staten island 4 dea;h
and IS prostrations; Newark, deaths an
~ ,,roe+ra+ions. I ono Island I'jty :, fpat h