The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-08-11
like SAHARA'S BREATH
Victims Of the Intense Heat
Drop in Their Tracks
as if Stricken by
a Plague.
LOG CASES IN NEW YORK
LNSEW THREE FATALITIES
RESULTED,

RESULTED.
Predictions for To-day Give No Encour-
agement-Hottest Period Known for
Years-In Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis
and other Big Cities the Death Rate is
Appalling.
The intense heat of the past few days
did not let up in the least yesterday,
but instead the mercury hung with
deadly persistency around the upper
eighties and lower nineties with hardly
cool breath all day long to allay for
moment the great discomfort which
the high temperature and humidity
produced.
Those who were compelled by neces-
sity to be out on the heated sidewalks
were the greatest sufferers Three
deaths from prostration by the heat oc-
CURED in this city and the death record
in other places extends far beyond the
hundred mark.
Weather Observer Myers reports that
the maximum temperature of yesterday
was 80, equalling that of Saturday,
which was record breaker, in this
city.
At a. m. the Thermometer stood at
70, at 8 p. m. at IS. Average humidity
so. The lowest temperature was about
o'clock yeserday morning, when the
mercury actually dropped to rs. Mr..
Myers says he can give no hope of
cooler weather much before to-
morrow. History will repeat it
self again to-day and people will
experience the same torrid discomfort
which they have been groaning under
for the past few days. Conditions are
right for showers.
There was an unusually large Mon
day crowd at the station seeking to
get out of the heated city to the shore
or country. Patrolman Grant reports
difference of four, degrees between
the two ends Of the depot, the mercury
registering 80 at the west end and So
! at the east end, while at the center it
scored so.
DEATHS IN THIS CITY.
The record Of deaths from sunstroke
in this city are as follows:
James Howard, driver for the New
Haven Ice company, while loading his
wagon at the ice house in Railroad ave-
nue., at S O'clock yesterday morning,
fell unconscious Daniel Holloran and
another workman placed the stricken
man on the platform and called the
police.
officers James E. Caulfield and John
B. Roche conveyed the unconscious
man to his home in James street, and
DR.. John Sullivan was called. He
could not however save the mans life
and he died at $780,
Patrick Shea, for many years an en-
ploye of the Consolidated road, while
working on the track between Wood
mont and West Haven, was prostrated
with the heat. He was carried to his
home at 118 Mill River street, where he
died shortly afterwards. He leaves a
family.
The emergency ambulance was called
to Cruttenden's stables on Union street
about $50 o'clock yesterday afternoon
to find John Frederick, a driver for the
Lion brewery Of Allingtown, suffering
from sunstroke.
The attendants at the stables were
applying ice and such restoratives as
could be obtained Frederick was
taken to the hospital, where he died in
a few minutes after arriving.
Frederick lived on Spring street
West Haven. He leaves widow and
three small children. At the time the
unfortunate man was stricken he was
en- route to Aurora hall to remove some
empty beer kegs. He stopped his team
several feet below the entrance to the
hall and got down from the wagon. In
doing so Frederick tottered and caught
hold of the door Of the Cruttenden sta
bles.
Mr. Cruttenden, who was at the sta
bles at the time did what he could to
resuscitate the man while the ambu-
lance was getting to the scene.
CASES OF PROSTRATION.
John Ward, employed by the New
Haven Casket company on Railroad
avenue, was overcome by the heat
while at work yesterday morning. He
was Immediately sent to the hospital,
reaching there at a. m. 1t is believed
he will recover.
Walter Hall, conductor on the
Edgewood avenue branch of the New
Haven Street Railway company's lines,
was overcome by the heat at 1870 yes
terday afternoon at the corner of
Church and Chapel streets, and drop
ately picked UP and taken into Mix's
drug store, where he recovered in few
minutes and was taken to his home on
Elliott street. He had just got through
his days work.
Mrs. Patrick Moran of West Seven
teenth street, New York, who has been
visiting at Mrs Faughnan's, No. II Ed
wards street, was called home last eve
ming, the reason for her recall being
that her husband was Frustrated by a
sunstroke Sunday night and carried to
the hospital Her first cousin was also
Frustrated by the heat and conveyed to
the hospital
1t was feared that the sudden shock
of this double calamity might prove
dangerous, and so another excuse was
given to secure her return.
SEVERAL STORES CLOSED FOR
THE EVENING.
Shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon bulletins informed the public
at the store of F. NJ. Brown & Co. that