The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-31
JUST BURNING UP
HOT WEATHER IN THE INTERI0R
STILL CONTINUES.

STILL CONTINUES.
CI.cisnati Reports Twenty-Five More
Prostrations, Five Being Fatai-Indian
apolis Reports Two Fatsiities-st. Loui'
ce,stbe First Relief Since Sunday In the
shape of a Cool Breeze-Relief OF Thai
Nature in Other Cities Only Temporary
ST Josenb and Other Missouri Points
What the Thermo meter says.
Cincinnati, O.. July 3o.-Today turned
mn, 10 he another scorcher. The ther-
n,cmeter registered 92 at p. m. ano
street instruments at the same hour
showed So and SO in the shade. After
e'clcck a straight wind blew 81 miles
per hour tor few minutes. 1t was &C
so4nnan.ed by a mere trace of rain.
Mercury on the street fell 16 degrees
N the four hous up to o'clock, after
which It has been rising slowly.
TWenty-njne prostrations were report
"A five of them being fatal. The dead
are:
JOHN CRONE.
RELL, EBRIGHT, 1aundress at Den
tison hotel.
BARNEY DICKHORSE. a tanner.
John S. SCHULTZ, a tanner.
MARY BROWN, an infant at the city
hospital.
This makes fifty-two prostraHons IN
three days, eight being fatal.
Work On the streets had TO be sus-
pended yesterday and today. Many
Horses are dropping in the streets. Let
ser carriers having five and four dally
.rips are let off for the present with
,our and three trips respectively.
indianapolis, Ind, July 30-This was
he hottest day of the season in this city.
me weather office thermometer regis
,ering 50 degrees at 1880 p. m. The IN
tensA heat resulted IN two deaths from
crstration. At noon Charles Harmon,
= driver. expired a few minutes after
esying lis wagon, and this afternoon
Mary Saunders, a colored girl. died.
rbera were three Or four more cases re-
ported, though these will not pove fatal.
AT $50 iris evening, the thermometer
dropped to 72 on account of a thunder
sr-4In. There has been much suffering.
81 Louis. July. 30-At Least thirty
vsct;-os of the sWelteTing heat, which
continues to prevail here, were treated
TODAY at the city dispensary and var1-
BUS hospitals throughout the city.
There were probably many other cases
that were not made public, Five or
the victims have died and more may
gllcclrnb. The thermometer rose TO 81
degrees in the shade at 4:3O p. m, but
this evening a cool breeze sprung up,
tempering the fierce heat and giving
the suffering people a chance to sleep
In comfort, which they have not peen
able to do for nearly a week.
ST. Louis, Mo-, July 3o.-Later ana
more complete returns TO police mead
quarters indicate that there were 1uity
fifty prostrations today, of which num-
Der ten were fatal, with prospects mat
several more would result so.
St Louis. No, July 30-The dead are:
POLICE OFFICER JOHN CROSBY.
EDWARD CHAMP.
CHARLES BROWN.
HENRY FISHER.
WILLIAM HENRY REDWOOD.
JULIUS LAUX
GEORGE BEARD.
G.. H. THIEMEY Err and two oun-
known men.
The total number Of prostrations so
far reported is seventy.
Louisville, KY, July 31.-The maxi
mum temperature today was again
above %. The mean temperature OF 50
today has been experienced only once
before in tiRis city. More than score |
of cases of prostrat lions are reported, |
four of which proved fatal, and three |
other victims are in a serious condition. |
The deaths today were:
j. A BOOT.
ANDREW LESERE.
GEORGE SUMMER
FREDERICK WEITHLAtYF.
St Joseph, Mo, July 30.-Today has |
been a regard breaker for high temper |
atures At u O'Clock last night the Their /
mometer registered 30, at Z O'Clock this |
morning 100, and two hours later 1o3 in |
the shade. Scarcely a breath OF air |
IS stirring, and the heat is almost IN
bearable- There have been many peo-
pie compelled to quit work on account |
IF the heat, and business is interferred |
with. but up to noon no fatal cases Of
sunstroke had been reported.
Appleton City, Mo. July 30.-The in
1enSe heat has been almost unbearable
lere yesterday and today, the thermom-
ster registering from 100 to 10S degrees
n the shade. Several sunstrokes are