The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09
A SCORE OF REGISTRATIONS
AUGUST AMBoRN, FROM MUNCIE,
TEMPORARILY LOSES HIS MIND.
Policeman Byrd Falls While Pursu-
ing n Mnn-PeOpIe Lying in the
Parks to Escape the Heat.

LEONARD cox. an inmate of county
asylum. Found dead in Military Park.
Among the other cases of prostrations re-
ported, several of them very serious, were
the following:
AUGUST AMBORN, of Muncie. driven
insane by heat
JACKSON BYRD, policeman, 164 Coburn
street.
MICHAEL CULLEN, boarding house
keeper, 107 West South.
WILLIAM HOLT, beer wagon driver SIG
Buchanan street.
ALDRICH JASPER, colored hodcarrier,
20S West Second street.
MAGGIE FLETCHER, colored washer
woman, rear of 522 new Massachusetts
avenue.
WILLIE MURPHY, twelve-year-old boy
| 302 (new) Iowa street
UNKNOWN COLORED MAN living on
| Douglass near Elizabeth street.
FRANK DALTON. seventeen years old,
| IA North Senate avenue.
JAMES RENNICK, bicyclst, 1877 Colum-
| bia avenue.
S. L. DUDELL. freight handler, Shelby
| and Pleasant streets.
THOMAS ROACH, molder 372 West
| Maryland street.
EDWARD CORY, painter, living at Co
| lumbuS, q.
JOSEPH M'FALL, car inspector, 237
| South Pennsylvania.
| BENJAMIN F. THOMAS, a Stevenson
building employe, 256 Blake street.
GEORGE SCHWENK, a beer-wagon
! driver, corner Blake and Michigan.
While the thermometer yesterday did not
register as high as the preceding day, the
heat seemed more depressing and the ef-
feet upon suffering humanity in the vicinity
of indianapolis were more severe. There
were more than score of prostrations and
two resulted fatally The highest point
| reached by the ehtrnlometer was 95.3 at
| o'clock which was II degrees less than
on Wednesday, Yesterday was the fifth
day of the hot spell and instead of be-
coming accustomed to it people seemed to
| become more prone to suffer from it. Lit
tie business was done in the retail dis
trict The places where men are in the
habit of congregating were comparatively
deserted. Everything seemed to be at
! standstill.
| TO keep cool was the effort of everybody
| who did not have work or business that
| could not be postponed. The need of more
| parks was never better demonstra ted. Peo-
| pie swarmed to Military and University
parks During the afternoon these breath
ing spots were sought by hundreds of peo-
pie Men could be seen lying about on
the grass, stretched out like so many sheep,
famishng for fresh air and relief from the
heat. Many who found THE time to do so
took street-car rides for the benefit of the
breeze which comes with the rapid motion
of the car. They found cooler spots at
the out-of-town parks, perhaps, than they
could have found at home.
Two fatalities, both in Military Park,
were reported during the day Captain
Michael Francis Kelly, longtime resident
of Indianapolis and man who was known
-,
Park at about $50 o'clock He dropped
over after having sat in the park trying
to cool off for an hour. Several physicians,
including Drs. league, Pfaff, Booz and
Erdman reached him before he died, but it
was a fatal case of sunstoke and one for
which the physicians could do nothing.
Kelly had been in saloon on West
Washington street with a number of young
men an hour before his death. He drank
one glass Of beer and started out saying
he was going over to sit in the park and
see if he could not get away from the heat.
He walked up West street and into the
park finding d seat on one of the benches.
1t was just about an hour afterward that
he started to leave the place. He was sit
ting near the canal in the southeast part
of the park He started to walk to West
street. probably intending to cross the
canal bridge and return to Washington
street He had started up the little eleva-
ton from the park proper to the roadway
along the bank of the canal when he was
seen to fall over A dozen people ran to
him and when it was seen that he was in
a bad way several ran for doctors. When
the physicians arrived Kelly was still alive.
He was blue in the face and all over his
body sort of a rash had broken out. He
was dead in ten minutes
Kelly had many friends in this city He
was born in ireland and spent a part of
his booyhood in England and was educated
in France. After a few years at sea and
in travelling about the world he came to
this country while still young man. He
was in Indiana when the civil war began
and enlisted in the Thirty-third Indiana
Volunteers as a private. He was a good
soldier and when discharged had gained the
title of captain. He had not lived here
constantly since the war, though the
greater part of that time was spent in this
city. He was an expert bookkeeper and ac-
countant. He was assistant to Dr. Eden
harter during the latters first term as
superintendent at the Central Hospital for
the Insane. For about four years past he
had been employed as night clerk and book
keeper at the Occidental Hotel He left
there about three weeks ago and since then
has not been employed. He lived with a
family named Dugan at the corner Of
Washington and Missouri streets Captain
Kelly was a wdower, his wife having died
many years ago. One son, however, sur
wives. He is Patrick Kelly twenty-five
years old, employed short buyer" by
Schnul & Co The young man boards with
jeremiah Costello, on South West street
THE OTHER FATAT. CASE.
Leonard Cox. a man thirty-three years
old and an inmate of the county asylum.
was found dead yesterday morning in Mill
tary Park lying on the ground near the
canal. The body was taken to Blanchards
morgue, and was viewed by the coroner.
The man had evidently been dead several
hours, and 1t was the opinion Of the coroner
that it was the result OF heat prostration
Cox had relatives living about two miles
north Of Irvington. He was incapable of
{ caring for himself, and had been staying
at the poor farm for long while. He had