The record-union., 1897-07-10

ST. LOUIS, July 9.-Seven people dIed
from the heat in ST. Louis on the
twelfth day of insufferable heat. Two
people, one of them a New Orleans ne
gress, were driven insane, and six
others have been sunstruck and will die
before morning. There have been num-
berless prostrations in st. Louis. a.
Smith, the Brooklyn's catcher, and
Grady, first baseman of the st. Louis
team, were Frustrated during the base
ball game this afternoon. Smith is un-
conscious, and his condition appears to
be serious Two deaths and several
prostrations occurred in East st. Louis.
Eleven other prostrations fell in the
streets and were taken to the hospitals.
In the last twenty-four hours there
has not been a seconds remission from
the heat. Last night was terrible.
Street thermometers registered 80 de-
grees throughout the night. In the
houses it was many degrees hotter.
Sleep was impossible to most. The To-
cal Weather Bureau predicted thunder
storms and decided drop in tempera-
ture for this afternoon, but not cloud
appeared. Tonight is / degree hotter
than last night.
HOTTEST OF THE YEAR.
KANSAS CITY, July 9.-The heat in
this city and vicinity was even more
oppressive to-day than yesterday. At
S o'clock this morning the thermometer
registered Sc degrees, at 8 o'clock 80
degrees, at noon 94 degrees and at l p.
m. 81 degrees, the hottest Of the year.
The humidity was unusually heavy,
adding greatly to the prostrating effect
of the intense heat.
Up to o'clock tonight twelve pros
trations and two deaths have been re-
ported. NJ Dougherty, a soda water
manufacturer, was stricken on the
street, and died soon after being re-
moved to his home. Patrick White, an
aged blacksmith, died this morning in
the rear Of the shop where he worked,
death being due to the heat and over
indulgence in drink.
Many horses fell on the streets
Throughout Kansas and Northwest
ern Missouri the same intense heat pre-
vailed. At Lawrence and Hutchinson,
Kas., street thermometers recorded 101
degrees.
SEVEN SUDDEN DEATHS.
NEW YORK, July 9.-The tempera-
was down to IA degrees. The police re-
port eleven prostrations. Seven deaths
here to-day were indirectly due to the
heat
THE MERCURY LEAVES THE
TUBE.
LOUISVILLE, July 9.-The maxi
mum reached this morning by the ther-
mometer was 90 degrees at IL o'clock,
after which the mercury gradually re-
ceded until II o'clock, when another
upward squirt was taken, which sent it
bubbling out of the tube. Three deaths
are reported from the intense heat and
many prostrations.
AT DAYTON, OHIO.
DAYTON (O), July 9.-Three deaths
from the heat have occurred in the past
few hours. The thermometer regis
tered 90 degrees at noon.
SUFFERING IN KENTUCKY.
PADUCAH Ky.), July 9.-The heat
wave is causing suffering all over
Western Kentucky. Many prostrations
are reported Two hundred employees
in the Illinois Central below here have
struck, declaring they could not work.
Threshing crews are abandoning their
machines.
WORKMEN FRUSTRATED.
KOKOMO Qnd.), July 9.-This was
the hottest day here for sixty years.
the thermometer registering 105 de-
grees. The workmen on the Greentown
pike quit work on account of many of
the force being Frustrated.
HOTTEST EVER KNOWN.
MUNCIE Qnd.), July 9.-This has
been the hottest day ever known here.
E. D. Dubois, who recently came from
Chicago as superintendent of street
railroads, was prostrated; also Cyrus
Richardson, Jacob Meisker, Timothy
Hardwich, John Rich and many 9TH
ers, not seriously. The glass works are
compelled to close on account of the
heat.
SIXTEEN PEOPLE DIE AT CHI
CAGO.
CHICAGO, July 9.-Of all the hot
days that have made life burden since
the warm weather of 1873, this was the
worst. There were more deaths of
human beings and of animals, and the
number of prostrations 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
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