Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-10
SCORES OF PEOPLE sUCCUMBED To
THE HEAT YESTERDAY.
CHICAG0'S RECORD BROKEN.
SIXTEEN DEAD, TWO INSANE AND
SIXTY PRoSTRATIONs.
ConcOrdIa. kas., the Hottest Place In
America Neutrality-suspicious. Dead
and Six Dying in st. Louis
Ii VIII Be Somewhat
Cooler To-day.

Chicago. July 9.-Of all the hot days tha
have made life a burden since the warn
weather Of 1887 began. this was the worst
There were more deaths Of human being.
and Of animals. and the number of pros.
trations was greater than upon any other
day OF the long hot spell that has hung
over Chicago. Sixteen people are dead
from the heat; two are insane, and out OF
a large number Of prostrations, ten cases
are critical
The dead are: Charles Benson. commit
ted suicide while insane caused by the
extreme heat: John Eaton. shot himself
while suffering from heat; Rev. Father
Otto Groenebaum. priest OF ST. Nicholas
church. in Evanston. died Of heart disease.
aggravated by the heat; Henry Hazmann,
found dead hanging near Park ridge,
driven TO the deed by the heat; Helen Hal
loren. died by heat: Dora johnson. Fred
erick Kaiser. Thomas Lynch. Annie O'Don-
nell. committed suicide by taking carbolic
acid. driven to the act by the heat; Rach-
ael Riston. Fred Schlomsnn. died at the
county hospital from heat prostration.
stricken last Saturday; Jacob Staub, Will
lam scienberger. Rev. Father August Toll
ton. priest in charge Of st. Moniea's col
ored Roman Catholic eharch; unidentifed
man found in Washington park; August
vanderslee. hanged himself while insane
from the heat. 81 %
Two men were driven insane by the heat
there were ten people prostrated who are
in very critical condition and twelve
others who will recover. ssr .-... a.-.
Out in the BridewelI. where seven prison.
ers went insane yesterday because Of the
heat, three others suffered tbe-ssme fate
to-day. Three men. eithers strong in the
belief that a life of rectitude insured an
eternal abode in some place less hot than
this or determined to be packed in ice at
any cost, took their lives.
At midnight, the number Of prostrations
by heat had risen to sixtYrsiH, of this
number twenty-eight cases areJ said to be
serious and twelve OF them are almost GER
tain to die. r--
Last night was a sizzling horror; there
was comfort to be found noyhere-it was
the hottest night Chicago has ever known.
The mercury was 81 last tnitnfgiIt and. al,
Il.
m. the decrease in tempera rure was more
than offset by an Increased humidity. |
which. through tine night and day, made |
the discomfort far greater than is implied |
by the record Of the Thermometer. BY : "a. |
m. the mercury in the weather Office had |
climbed TO 81 and there was a steady over |
powering bull movement until p. m. when |
80 was reached This was qai in the Audi
torium tower. where the Wind had
chance at the thermometer. -
- The weather man sat in shis Office and
said: This is the hottest place in the
country to-day" but he VAS wrong. A
seventeen story slide down the elevator
shaft would have placed him IN a place
still more torrid. On the streets. where the
heat radisted from baking pavements and
brick walls. # was 10 de-
grees higher than in the tower and no
breeze to be had. S.yE
The day was especially severe on horses.
over 1OO'dying in the streets.
Sixteen hundred men and boys, were
temporarily thrown out ofiAnnpIpyment in
Pullman to-day. Owing 10, the Intense
heat the managers found it necessary 10
close the works at noon and send the work
men home. The shops will remain closed
Tomorrow il the hot weather continues and
until the temperature decreases a little.
The temperature took, a quick drop IN
illinois and Iowa this evening At De- I
;atur. Ill, the mercury. which had reached
30 during the day. fell Is degrees in two
hours. One death and dozen prostratious
occurred. # -fr ~ a.-s !
At Bloomington, Ill, the mercury reached
%. Three deaths and a number OF pros
rations occurred.
A thunder storm this evening caused
lrop Of 20 degrees. Rain fell over the en-
ire country in torrents.
In Iowa, downpour of rain cooled things !
considerably. One person was killed bv 7
ightning. At Burlington, the mercury q
cached lo2. One death and dozen pros !
rations occurred. I
At keokuk there were one death and {
everal prOstrations
Toledo, o., reports one death and a dozen :
rostrations. The thermometer req ?
stored IS. ..a...4.- 2