The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-12
FEARFUL MORTALITY
From Excessive Heat IN New York mud
Surrounding Towns,


NEW YORK, Aug, li.-Twclve deaths
and twcn,y.nlnn nrostrutIona comprise
the ilrDt list given out nt police head.
quarters to-day OF casualties attributed
to the heat. There Is breeze which
brings feeling OF relief to those who
can get within Its range, but the tenn
pornture at II O'Clock was o. TO % on the
streets md the humidity CO per cent.
Tho list OF deaths In this city as reported
to the police up 10 10 o'clock was thir-
teen.
In Brooklyn there were seven deaths
this morning and numerous prostratons
due TO the heat
within a space OF fifteen minutes two
men were stricken as they were passing
city hail park this forenoon. a thCr-
mornetcr hung In the portlco OF the city
hall, where Is was within rcnch OF the
heat OF the asphalt walk, but still IN the
shade, indicated ll2 degrees above zero.
At | O'Clock two names has been added
TO the list OF dead In New York city and
the record Of prostratlon had grown to
GS for the day.
a peculiarly snd death " that Of 10
scph @. Plank, who expired today Mt
ROscbnnE, Staten Island. Mr., Plank
wna married TO Miss Annie Boulder. OF
Brooklyn last evening. At the bridal
supper he succumbcd from sunStrokc
md was taken from the room uncon-
scious. He wnS never able again to
recognize his bride or friends.
Ten deaths were reported from the
Bellevue hospital.
Another day Of fearful heat which j.
expressing this section has 0dded Il
,page OF fatalities and suffering more
remarkable than It's predecessors In
New York City. In Brooklyn and all
the adjacent towns and throughout the
state OF New York and New Jersey
the days reports OF deaths nnd prostra-
tIons overshadOw the record OF any 9th
or day In many ycurs
In this city alone, tho death list Tor
the twenty-fOur hours footed up at
midnight, contains more than 100
names, Brooklyn adds about twenty TO
the list and the heats Victims in suOur-
ban towns brings the total 20 $50.
Men and women walking along the
streets have dropped In their tracks
md died before physicians could be
summoned, and horses nave died as
though stricken by plague.
Along the business streets men have
walked with umbrellas over their heads
with coats on their arms and fans in
their hands. The hospitals OF the city
are crowded to their full capacity.
while the doctors and nurses have been
kept nt work night and day until many
OF them have suCcumbcd to the strain.
The department OF public works Nns
come TO the relief OF the tenement house
districts and forces OF men with hose
cnrts are patroll!ng tho streets OF these
sections and flooding them with water
from the corner hydrants. Men. wo-
men and children rush in groups un-
der the streams from thc hose, and the
night scenes among the tenements as
the relief parties make their rounds are
unprecedented. Unless tomorrow
night brings relief. many prOstrations
are looked for In the Madison Square
Garden meeting and preparations arc
being made for special force OF medi-
cal men and for special amhulances.
The, thermometer has for the past six
nights fallen but n few degrees from
the limits registered during the hot
test part Of the day. The heat on Mon
day night hold almost stationary at
cIEhty-One degrees.
The highest previous record for Au-
gust Il was % degrees in 1891 and %
degrees in 1892. while to-day It regis
tered upon the top OF the Manhattan
Life Insurance Company building,
where the weather bureau Is situated,
% and fvc-trnths degrees and the hu-
mldity, which Is far worse than the
boiling sun stood at 70, and down on
the streets Is was not less than five de-
grces warmer. The official tempera-
No. wt8.- GN4Tr -
lows:
l9 noon. 20; p. m, 50: p. m., %: 2
p. m. 9S 5-l0; p. in.. 9S: p. M, 81:
p. m, % and p. M, 20. and up TO mid
night the temperature did not drop but
few points registering Sc.