The record-union., 1897-07-11


Began, While Scores of Death.
Due Indirectly to the Sam.
Cause Have Occurred.
i CHICAGO, July 10.-The fierce heat
under which the greater portion of the
country has sweltered since the 1st OF
July moderated in many localities to-
day, and predictions from the Weather
Bureau at Washington indicate thai
lower temperature will bring genera
relief within twenty-four hours.
The records Of prOstrations and death:
resulting from the long heated term ap-
proaches in magnitude that of a gen
eral epidemic. Reports from all Sec
tions of the country received by the
Associated Press this evening show thai
prostrations numbering in the neigh
borhood of 1000, with fatalities close tC
800 have occurred. I'm addition TO this
there We're scores of deaths resulting in
directly from the intolerable heat, the
death rate in many of the large cities
showing a fearful increase over previ-
Gus years.
The Central States suffered more Sc
verely than other sections, the heat be-
ing most deadly in Chicago, Cincinnati
and St. Louis. In the number of fatal
tiles this city heads the list with 81
Deaths Cincinnati and suburban points
reporting % and st. Louis ~. Through
out the South the heat was intense, but
the death rate was much lower than in
/ the North.
Eighty-seven people died from the ef-
feet of the heat in July. In addition
six have drowned while bathing to es-
cape the sizzling rays of the sun, six
! have been driven insane and a like
number have committed suicide, while
/ 347 prostrations, more or less serious,
, have occurred. The heat showed a great
increase in mortality in children and
sufferers from chronic diseases. The
average number of deaths for the past
four days has almost doubled.
Late this afternoon the excessive
heat was broken by smart thunder
shower. The mercury in five hours
fell twenty degrees, and life is once
more worth living.
/ MORE DEATHS AT CINCINNATI
CINCINNATI, July 10. = Coroner
/ Haerr reports three fatalities from sun
stroke here during the past seven days
This does not include a dozen such ia
talities for the week in Covington, New
port and other Kentucky suburbs.
/ There were over 500 prostrations To-
day there were seven fatal cases of heat
prostraion here.
The dead are: Arthur Affey, Ed
mund Born, Carrie Seikulse Phil
Leddy, Mrs. Eva Renkert, John Steter
and Hyman Benjamin.
There are in the hospitals forty cases
of sufferers from sunstrole. There are
also a total of 35S cases under treat
| ment very largely from accidents SUI
/ perinduced by heat The prostrations
requiring official attention to-day were
! about forty-fiye The maximum heat
marked by the Weather Bureau to-day
was 90 degrees, at l p. m. and 80 de-
/ grees, at 6 p. m. The most reliable in
struments on the street level showed
| degrees to 4 degrees higher. The mer-
curry on the street at $50 tonight was
/ SO degrees. Thunder-stol1ns in this vi
cinity cooled the air but little.
DEATH RATE AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, July 10-The hot spell in
| st. Louis has lasted thirteen days. and
the weather is still hot and oppressive.
! During this heated term forty-two per-
/ sons have died from sunStroke either
on the streets, in ambulances or in the
| Emergency Hospital. The statistics of
| prosltrated persons who died in their
own homes are not attainable During
the hot spell 1877 cases of prostration
classified as serious have been treat
| ed at the city hospitals. There is no
record of those treated at their own
homes. During the thirteen days the
! heat has averag ged 96 degrees There
were no deaths and few prostrations
during the first five days.
To-day's record of the sun in ST. Louis
! up to 6 o'clock tonight is. Dead. IA;
prostrated, %. OF those prostrated 10
are expected to die. The dead are: Bap-
tiste Grimmond, William Koeter, Will
lam Shelley r. d. Wright, John An
derson, Albert Robst, Mahale Brown,
| Mike Algier Emil Person, Mrs Char
l0tte Blatta, Patrick O'Donnell, Varle-
rnan Bauer, = Daugherty, Phillip Balm.
| Pakers, teamsters, cooks and organ
grinders form the bulk of those pros
| tlated.
The City Hospital is swamped with
heat cases. The emergency wards are
racked This morning Superintendent
Sutter ordered large number of tents
Which he will have placed on the hos
| rital grounds and will transfer all the
heat cases TO them.
At dawn this morning the temperature
vas IS degrees, at 3 p. m. it was "a and
this evening it was 96 degrees.
All sorts Of things We're promised for
Il oe.t
night and the night before that, and the
people have suffered and died There
| are a few little feathery clouds in the
/ sky tonight, and an apology for a
breeze. is coming in from Kansas-where
| it is hotter than here-but there is no
signs of a cooling storm. This is the
thirteenth day. Men are sullenly vicious
under the strain, women are hysterical
! and children are covered with prickly
heat from neck to heel.
!. The intensity of the heat spell was
broken here tonight by shower and
a wind storm. The thermometer now
stands at so degrees, a fall of Is de-
I grees.
DEATHS AT NEW YORK.
| NEW YORK, July 10.-The number
of deaths in New York City from sun
stroke for the week ending at 6 o'clock
tonight was IA. There We're numerous
deaths from heart failure and other dis