Connecticut western news., 1896-08-13
DIED BY TIE SCORE.
GREAT MORTALITY IN NEW YORK
 CAUSED BY THE HEAT.
The Hospitals Crowded With Victims and ths Ambulance Service Proves Entirely Insdequste-Many Deaths From Heat In Most of the Larger Cities.

In Most of the Larger Cities.
 NEw YoRK, Aug. l2.-Another day of fearful heat. which Is expressing this sec tion, has added page Of fatalities and suffering more remarkable than its prod ecessors In New York city. in Brook lyn and all the ad ;aoent towns through out the states of New York and New ter sey the days reports of deaths and pros- trations oversha1ow the record of any oth- CT day in many years. In this city alone the death list for 24 hours, footed np this morning contains more than loo names Brooklyn adds about 90 to the list, aud the heats victims in suburban towns brings the total to 150.
 Men and women walking along the streets dropped in their tracks and died before physicians could he summoned, md cart horses have died as though stricken by plague Many factories have been closed, and outdoor workers were compelled to drop their tools and find shelter during the hours when the sun was at Its height Particularly among policemen and letter carriers has the suffering been intense, and many were compelled to stop work from both forcas. Along the business streets men walked with umbrellas over their heads, with coats on their arms and fans In their hands The hospitals of this city
  the doctors and nurses were kept at work night and day until many of them have suocumbed to the strain. The department of public works came to the relief of the tenement house districts and forces of men with hose carts patrolled Ahe streets of these sections and flooded them with water from the corner hydrants. Men, women and children rushed in groups un- der the streams from the hoso. and the night scenes among the tanements as the relief parties made their rounds were un- precedcnted.
 Unless night brings relief, many pros trations are looked for in the Madison Square c arden meeting, and preparations ore being made for a special force of inedi- cal men and for special ambulances.
 Tho thermometer has for the past six niah's fallen hut few degrees from the limits registered during the hottest part of tho day. The heat on Monday night held almost stationary at S1 degrees, until o'clock yesterday morning. and as soon as the began to ascend tho thprmome. ter did likewise. until all previous records for Aug. II, were broken. The. highest previous record for Aug. II was 93 degrees in 1881 and s3 tegrScs in lS,2 while yos- te day it registered, up on the top of the Manhattan life Insurance building where the weather bureau is situated. 93ls de grees, and tho humidity, which Is lar worse than the broiling sun, stood at 7n, and down on the streets 1t was not less than five degrees warmer.
 The heat yesterday claimed many vic tims throughout the country, though the mortality was not so great outside of New York on the previous day. The follow ing Is the number of deaths in the priuoi- pal cities:
 Boston. '; Philadelphia. l2; Baltimore s; Washington, 1: Chicago, 33; St. Loais, &; Providence. 2; New Haven. ?; Hart ford, l; Louisville 1.