The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-30
HEAT STAYS MANY
HIGH TEMPERATURES PREVAIL
FROM ST. LOUIS EASTWARD.
No Let-up at st. Louis Since Sunday Signal
Nearly a Hundred - Over the Eighty
Mark at Night-Twenty-Five Persons
Frustrated by Heat are in the City's
Care-Hottest In Louisville Tor ffteeh
Years-ProstratioDs in Cincinnati-Bi-
cycie Racer Overcome on His Wheel.

Transformation in Cincinnatf-Bi-
cycte Racer Overcome on His Wheel.
ST. Louis. Mo-, July 29.-The terrors
the heat today found their full climax
at the City Hospital, where the Dnysa-
clans and attendants were kept busy all
day and until midnight receiving and
attending to patients. The number or
eases of heat prostrations sent to the
hospital as serious was sixteen. Or
these one died and two others are ex-
oected TO die at any moment Henry
Movers. VINO was sent to the hospital
Monday suffering from the heat, insist
ed on leaving the institution this morn
Ing, declaring ne was all right He was
brought back this afternoon utterly
prostrated and did not rally, dying
shortly afterward. Henry Welp, ma
ahfnist, and George Beard, a mason,
were brought to the hispital tonight and
1t Is thought they cannot live.
One death occurred in East ST. LOUIS,
George Carr, an employe OF the Wig
gins Ferry company, succumbing from
The effects of the heat.
Police reports from the different dis
Frustrated today Reports from differ
ent parts in Illinois and Missouri indi-
cate that the weather is still worse there
than in ST. Louis At Wellsville. Mo-,
Yesterday and today were the hottest
DAYS experienced there in ten years.
Last night at o'clock the thermometer
REGISTERED 80 and today at p. m 1o6 in
the shade During the past two days
hhe Thermometer has ranged between 80
and 1O4 In the shade at Mexico, Mo.
The following records are for Illinois
towns: Louisville 104, and many cases
Of sun stroke; Benton 102; Carlisle 102;
Eureka SO; Alton 102; Mount Vernon lo3,
and the heat causing much Sickness
among children; Virginia 105.
Louisville, KY. July 29.-The present
hot spell has broken the record for the
past fifteen years. Yesterday the Their
mometer registered 9S.5 and today
reached 90 Two deaths due to the
heat are reported, both the victims be-
Ing laborers, and there have been num-
erous prostrations.
Cincinnati, o., July 29.-The swelter-
Ing heat continues. Two men were over
d. Come by the heat today. The first,
Martin Taylor, a street cleaner, died in
q short time. The other( NJ. Kobald,
baker, is in a critical condition. Two
horses drawing a heavy load up from
the landing fell from the excessive heat
John Schuppe died tonight from the ef-
fects of the excessive heat. This makes
twelve prostrations today, two fatal
The government mercury went UP to 80
and thermometers on the street regis
tered a maximum of 9S to 101. The sig
nal service predict sixty hours con-
tinued hot weather.
Washington, July 29.-The official Their
u1ometer at the weather bureau today
registered a maximum temperature of
% degrees. The heat for the past two
days has been intnse and today result
ed in two deaths. Colonel W. A. Nc
Arthur of Portland, Ore, brother of
Judge J. p. Macarthur, was overcome
and died on the street. The other vic
tim was Sandy Harris. a colored la
borer. The weather bureau holds no re-
lief during the next forty-five hours,
and predicts even warmer temperature.
Nashville. Tenn. July 29.-The ex-
treme heat came today. the highest
point reached being s6 dgrees. Three
deaths from heat prostration have been
reported.
Chicago, July 29.-This was the hot
test day Chicago has seen since the es-
the establishment of the weather office.
The mercury reached "a, according to
the instrument. but on the streets it was
IS to 100. There were eight prostrations
Jnly two of which are likely to result
seriously. One of these was H. a. Nc
Cane of ST. Louis. and an unidentified
man whose name is supposed TO be To-
bias Landa. The latter viii die
Lima. o. July 29-Joseph Greidler,
Of Minneapolis. one OF the crack bicy-
Gle circuit riders, was killed here today
Greidler was probably overcome by the
heat, for he left the track, ran straight
into the crowd and was thrown upon
a fence, receiving injuries which re-
suited in his death half hour later.
Greidler was in the lead in the ten mile
opn race at the time the accident oc-
eurrd.