The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-10


New Orleans Observation-Disclosures. 81
Key NtS. Observation-Disclosures. n
sixteen Dead in CHICAGO.
CHICAGO July 3 Of all the hot days
that have made life a burden since the
warm weather OF ls9. began this Was
the worst. There were more deaths Of
human beings ana Of animals. and the
number OF prostrations was greater t0an
on any other day of The long. hot spell
that has hung over Chicago. Sixteen
people are dead from the heat; ,wo aie
insane. aud cat OF a large number OF
prIStratlous ten cases are critical out
in the Bridcweu. where seven prisoners
wrnt insane yesterday, three others suk-
forcd the same fate from tac heat tonight.
inC Night was SiAzlins horror. There
was comfort 10 bo found nowhere. ii
was the hottest night Chicago has ever
known. The mercury WAS - last nignt
az midnight and although near the lake
it sunk 10 - at a. m. the decrease in
/ temperature was more than offset ny N
Increased humidity which through :he
/ nicnt and day. made the discomfort far
! greater tnan Is implied by the record OF
I the thermometer.
By a. IN. the mercury in the weather
! Office had climbed 10 Nj and there Was a
/ steady oYcrpowering bull movement until
/ 5 D. N. when ~ was reached. This was
/ up In the Auditorium tower where the
/ wind had chance at the thermometer. on
/ the streets. where the heat rsdla ted from
+ baking pavement and sun-soaked brick
/ walls 1t was to degrees higher than ia
{ the tower and no breeze to be had.
| The day was especially severe Oh horses,
/ over 100 dying in the streets.
Sixteen hundred men and boys were tenn
poraFily thrown out of employ ment in
/ Pullman today. Owing 10 the intense heat
! the managers decided TO close the works
/ at noon and send the workmen homo. The
/ shops viii remain closed tomorrow If the
hot weather continues and until the tenn
/ pcIature decreases little.
| thunder storm this evening caused a
| drop of ~ degrees Rain fell over the en-
| tire county In torrents.
In Iowa 81 downpour OF rain cooled the
| air considerably.
Al midnight the number of prostra-
1 tions had risen 20 sixty-six. or this num-
/ ber twcnty-etght cases are said 10 be-
! serious and twelve of them are aimos,
certain TO die.
seven Die I'm st. Louis.
| ST. LOUIS. July 9.-Ssven people died
| from heat in 81. Louis on this. the twelfth
day OF insuferable heat. Two people.
| one Of them a New Orleans negress.
were driven insane and six others have
| been sunstruck and viii die before morn
! ing. There have been numhcriess pros
tri.tiols in st. Louis. A. Smith. the
! Brooklyn's catcher. and Grady. first base
. man OF The 81. Louis team. were pros
j trated during the baseball game today.
/ smith is unconscious and his condition
/ pears To be serious Two deaths and
| several prostrations occurred in East 81.
! Louis The list Of the dead follows.
| MICHAEL EDEL.
| ROBERT WRIGHT.
THEODORE SCHOTE.
/ JOSEPH OBEY.
| SIEBERT MUNSTER.
HENRY BAMPMAN.
! JULIA FREEDMAN.
JACOB GRtMMOST.
/ CHARLES pIEpER.
The two latter died in East ST Loui.
IN the last twenty-four hours there has
/ not been a seconds remission from the
/ heat Last night WAS terrible. The
/ thermometer registered 50 degrees
+ throughout the night, In the houses
II was many degrees hotter Sleep VAS
/ impossible 10 most people. The local
/ weather bureau predicted thunder storms
and decided drop in temperature for
this evening bat not a cloud appeared.
. Tonight Is degree hotter than last
/ night
No Escape Possible.
KANSAS CITY. July s.-The heat in
+ this city and vicinity was even more op-
O'Clock this morning the thermometer
registered - az 2 O'Clock -. AZ moon -.
and a. g. m ~ the hottest cf the year.
Th- humidity Was unusually heavy. add
lng greatly 10 the pr0s;ratlns effect Of
the intense heat.
10 20 3 p. IN twelve pFosfrations and
Two deaths have beeu reported
NJ nougberfy soda water manufac-
tisre- VS. stricken an fhe street and died
soon after being removed 10 hts home.
Patrick white. an aged blacksmith.
died this morning in the rsar ~ the shop
whore NJ worked. death b-iug due 10 the
heat and over-irduisence In drink.
Many horses Iell on the streets.
Throughout Kansas ard NnTthwestorn
Missouri the asne intense haaf prevailed.
AZ Lawrence and H1tqhjnson, Kan.
street thermometers recorded i9l. Ne
yada. No. reports ifs
Cincinnati Has Lo.t Sixty.
CTNCTNEATI Jgly s-The number 4
heat deaths to-day vas SIX The inaHl-
/ mum heat hy trustworthy street th.r-
ruornafers today wRs 81 At 8. gn.. = IS
Sc AZ - o. ru The number az deaths
ta the last seven days II sixty.
The tianefsnr ~ the hair an1 SIS t@n-
dafry - fall on can b@ prevented. ard tas
aatrraI color restored - HANS Vegetable
s.cilau Hair Renewer.
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81 ns~s al park To-Day. - ADM s.on. IL
cents
Fp hams. boiled and slieed. Deli
c4tessen.
siae far life sunday ~ Madison PARK.