The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-07-05
KILLED BY AWFUL HEAT
Scores Of Prostrations in the
Cities of the Middle West.
.FRIGHTFUL IN CINCINNATI
Fourteen Deaths by Sunstroke In 20
Hours Chicago, St. Louis. Kansas
City, Pittsburg and Louis
vile sufsring Terribly.

st. Louis. July i.-Well-bred ther-
mometers registered 100 degrees in the
shade in ST. Louis to-day. Everyday
ones made II los and obtained credence
for the figures. Even the government
thermometer, 10 stories up In the air.
and sworn to prove St Louis a summer
resort showed 96 degrees. For the last
three days ST. Louis has had weather
which even her citizens admitted was
hot. There was also sufficient humidity
to lay the dust. but those three days
were cold storage compared 10 the
Fourth. At midnight Saturday the
mercury stood at sc and IL got no lower.
At sunrise to-day II went to 90 went to
100 later, and now. at II o'clock at
night. Is ~ degrees on the streets. There
has been great suffering. hut only three
men We're Frustrated on the streets. No
fatal cases have been reported.
Cincinnati. July i.-This has been the
hottest day In the present torrid spell.
The weather bureau records showed
the mercury at 81 from to 4 p. m, and
II was at its maximum, 95. at & y. m.
Fifty prostrations and six deaths are
reported at O'Clock tonight. Local
thermometers showed from l02 to LOG
In the shade during the afternoon.
While there were 80 cases of sunstroke
In the city that required removal to the
hospitals or to their homes. It is esti-
mated that there were 20 lighter cases.
the victims of which went home without
assistance. OF the class requiring
medical attendance 10 cases are quite
serious. The names OF the dead as far
as ascertained are: Mrs. Della Retner.
Charles Stanley. Bertha Decker Jacob
York. Mrs. Mary A. Klostermann OF
Covington, KY. and an unidentified
man, believed to be T. Smith OF Gin
cinnati This makes six fatal cases.
Cincinnati. July 81 a. m.-Full In
vestigation up to 1 o'clock this morning
shows that there were II deaths from
heat here In the last ~ hours.
Pittsburg. July i.-This was Pitts
burg's hottest day, but owing 10 the
exceedingly low humidity no fatalities
nor serious prostrutions resulted. The
government thermometer registered
1854 as the maximum. which was reach
ed at p. m. Local street thermom-
eters showed the mercury ranging be-
tween l0S and i10 almost the entire day.
Toledo. July 4.-To-day was the hot
test July day i'm 25 years In this city.
The government thermometer register
ed 30 and Instruments on the streets In
dicated temperature of from ITO 10
l15.
Cincinnati. July 4.-Commercial Tri-
bune dispatches from Ohio points re-
port the extreme heat to-day as fol-
lows: Dayton. 100 TO 10 degrees, two
deaths, many prostrations; Lima, l05
degrees at p. m. one death. Newark.
100 TO 1861 Upper Sandusky, % at a.
m. and los at y. m.
Chicago. July 4.-The wave of torrid
weather under which the central states
sweltered last week showed no abats-
ment to-day. From Pittsburg to Kan
sas City and from Chicago south cloud
less skies and a blazing sun left u rec
ord OF prostrations and death which
has seldom been equalled for the early
days Of July. Through the entire dis
trict the mercury registered close to 100
In the shade during the day and the
number of prostrations ran into the
hundreds. In Chicago the mercury reg
istered close 10 30 degrees for the great
er part Of the day and there were over
a score of prostrations. AT midnight a
severe thunder storm swept over the
| city sending the mercury down several
points. Two men were killed by the
heat during the afternoon-Lamberi
Ludberg. a carpenter. and Henry Beh-
| lin. a teamster. Several other cases are
critical