The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-04
In Chicago People ReeIed and Sick
ened on the streets as if ina
PIague-Strickcn City.
MANY PERSONS FRUSTRATED
FATAL CASES OF sUNSTROKE IN SEW
ERAL WESTERN CITIES.
Horses Killed by Old Soils Rays-Spe-
ciaI Bulletins Issued by the
Weather bureau.

WASHINGTON July 3-The Weather
Bureau, through Chief Moore, to-day issued
the following hot-weather bulletin: THE
area of unusually high temperature this
morning includes nearly the whole country
east of the Rocky mountains, except the
middle Atlantic coast and New England
the range above the normal amounting TO
from two to eighteen degrees and being
greatest in the lake region. Maximum tenn
peratures of one hundred degrees and over
occurred yesterday at Charleston and Sa-
vannah, and of ninety degrees and over
throughout the remainder OF the region
named. The temperatures throughout the
lake region, the Ohio and Mississippi val
leys have been above the normal since the
first of the month. There has been con-
siderable fall during the past twenty-four
hours in the Missouri valley and the North
west Continued high temperature is prob
able for Sunday over the eastern and south
ern portions of the United States"
The Weather Bureau tonight issued the
following special buletin The area in
GLIDING temperatures of 20 degrees yester
day az p. IA has extended northward to
the lower Ohio valley and Wisconsin, Mar
quette reporting so degrees tonight and
maximum of Sc. East winds from the high
kept down the coast temperature fall of
~ degrees being reported from Boston.
Temperatures will fall in the middle and
upper Mississippi and lower Missouri val
leys b. Sunday afternoon and will con-
tinue high in the Eastern States, except on
the immediate Atlantic coast"
FORECAST FOR SUNDAY.
For Ohio-Fair; continued high temporal
ture; fresh southerly winds, with prospects
of thunderstorms on the lakes Sunday aft
ernoon or night
For Indiana and Illinois-Fair; followed
by thunderstorms in northern portion Sun
day afternoon; southery winds shifting
TO westerly, and cooler Sunday afternoon.
Record Broken at Chicago.
CHICAGO, July 3.-The highest rempera-
ture reported in the annals of the Weather
Bureau for the month of July in ten years
was reached to-day, when, for two hours,
the thermometer registered 90 degrees. But
the mercury did not stop there. 1t went up
and down until finally it made one supreme
jump, in an hours time from 50 TO 81 de-
grees. On the business streets men reeled
and sickened as in q plague-Stricken city,
and In the tenement districts women and
children huddled, seeking in vain relief
from the heat that penetrated and pre-
vailed everywhere. 1t was the hottest day
of the year and the hottest July day Chi
cago ever knew. There were many pros
tratlons, police and hospital ambulances
being kept busy all day caring for those
who sank under the screening rays; but
zap to midnight but two cases had proved
fatal, that of an unknown man, who died
in a lodging house, ard James Cuddy, a
butcher, who was found dead IN his room
on Emerald avenue, overcome by the heat
Later-Mrs John Evans, wife OF Ia
borer, died late tonight from heart failure
caused by heat.