The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10
A SIZZLING HORROR.
The Parting Shot of the Heat was it's
Most Deadly One.

Chicago, July 1O.-Of all the hot days
that have made life a burden since the
warm weather of 1897 began, yesterday
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 large num-
ber of prostrations ten cases are criti-
cal.
The dead:
Charles Benson, committed suicide
while insane from heat.
John Eaton, shot himself while suf-
Rev. Father Otto Groenebaum, priest
of st. Nicholas church in Evanston, died
of heart disease aggravated by the
heat.
Henry Hazmann, found dead hang
ing near Park Ridge, driven to the
deed by the heat.
Helen Halloren, died by heat.
Dora johnson.
Frederick Kaiser.
Thomas Lynch.
Annie O'Donnell, committed suicide
by taking carbolic acid; driven to the
act by the heat.
Rachel Riston.
Fred Schlomann, died at the county
hospital from heat prostration; stricken
last Saturday.
William Scieneberger.
Rev. Father August Tolston. priest in
charge of St. MOnica'S ColOred Roman
Catholic church.
Unidentified man, found in Washing
ton park.
August Vanderslee, hanged himself
while insane from the heat.
Two men were driven insane by the
heat, there were ten people who are in
very critical condition and twelve
others who will recover.
Out in the Bridewell, where seven
prisoners went insane because of the
heat, three others suffered the same
fate yesterday.
The night was a sizzling horror; there
was comfort to be found nowhere-it
was the hottest night Chicago has ever
known.
The day was especially severe on
horses, over 100 dying in the streets.
Sixteen hundred men and boys were
temporarily thrown out of employment
in Pullman owing to the intense heat
The managers found it necessary to
close the works at noon and send the
workmen home.
At Deca tur Ill, one death and a
dozen prostrationS occurred.
At Bloomington, Ill, the mercury
reached 105. Two deaths and num-
Der of prostrationS occurred. The dead:
DIR. James a. Manning, Chicago.
Mrs. John F. Trotter, Bloomington.
At Burlington, Ia, the mercury
reached 102 One death and a dozen
prostrations occurred.
AT Keokuk, one death and several
prostrations.
Toledo, O., reports one death and a
dozen prostrationS.
At midnight the number of prostra-
tions by heat had risen to 66. OF this
number % cases are said to be serious
and II of them are almost certain to
die.
st. Louis, Mo-. July 1O.-Seven people
died from the heat in ST. Louis yester-
day, the twelfth day of insufferab1e
heat. Two people, one of them a New
Orleans negresS, have been driven in
sane. and six others who have been
Sunstruck will probably die. There
have been numberless prostrations in st.
Louis. A. Smith, the Brooklyn's catcher,
and Grady, first baseman of the ST.
Louis team, were Frustrated during the
baseball game yesterday afternoon.
Smith is unconscious and his condition
appears to be serious. Two deaths
and several prostrations occurred in
East St. Louis. The deaths:
Michael Edel.
Robert Wright.
Theo. Schote.
Jos. Obey.
Siebert Munster.
Henry Campman~
Julia Freedman.
Jacob GrimmOnt.
Charles Dieder.
The two latter died in East ST. Louis.
William Shelby.
Theordore Schultz.
Ed Wright.
John Anderson.
Forty-five cases of prostration were
treated last night.
Cincinnati, O., July 1O.-The heat vic
tins yesterday were six. The names
are as follows:
Jacob Stengel.
Mrs. ChaS. Smith.
Alexander Kenthaus.
H. Kuska.
Michael McHugh.
Eva Eichelberger.
Thirty prostrations were reported.
Kansas City, Mo-, July 1O-The heat
in Kansas City and vicinity was even
more oppressive yesterday than the