The record-union., 1897-07-05
Hundreds of Prostrations Beside the Death
List.
The Thermometer Ranges at a
Hundred Degrees Through a
Large Area of Country ana
Great Suffering Ensues-Thun-
der Storm in Chicago Sends the
Temperature Down.

ST. LOUIS, July A. Well-preo
thermometers registered 100 degrees
in the shade in ST.. Louis to-day.
EVERYDAY ones made 10S degrees and
obtained credence for the hgures.
Even the Government THERMOMETERS
ten stories up in the air, and sworn
to prove ST. Louis a summer resort
showed 90 degrees.
For the last three days st. Louis has
had weather which even citizens ad-
mitted was hot There was also suf1l-
cient humidity to lay the dust, put
those three days were cold storage
compared to the fourth. At midnight
Saturday the mercury stood at 50 de-
grees, and it got no lower. At sunrise
to-day it went to 80 degrees, and lit
tie later to 100 degrees, and at IL p.
m. it was 80 degrees on the streets.
There has been great suffering, but as
nearly every one stayed at home only
three men were prostrated on the
streets. No fatal cases have been re-
ported.
FIFTY PROSTRATIONS.
CINCINNATI July 4.-This has
been the hottest day in the present tor
rid spell. The Weather Bureau record
showed the mercury at 81 degrees from
to p. m, and was at its maximum,
90 degrees, at 3 p. m. The sky was
cloudless all day and but few people
ventured on the streets. Fifty pros
trations and six deaths are reported at
9 o'clock tonight. Local thermome-
ters showed form 102 degrees to JOG
degrees in the shade during the after
noon.
While there were fifty cases of sum
stroke in the city that required re-
moval to hospitals or their homes, it
is estimated that there were fifty
lighter cases, in which the victims
went home without assistance. Of the
class requiring medical assistance ten
cases are quite serious. The names of
the dead, as far as obtainable, are:
Mrs. Della Retner, Charles Stanley,
Bertha Decker, Jacob Work, Mrs
Mary A. Klostermann of Covington, an
unidentified man, believed to be L.
Smith of Cincinnati. This makes six
cases.
THREE FATALITIES.
CLEVELAND, July 4.-The heat
here to-day was the most intense, the
temperature reaching the highest point
for the season. Two fatalities occur
red to-day and one last night, and
there have been several other prostra-
tions. The list is: Miss Sarah Clin-
ton, aged so; Mrs. Lena Sedusky, aged
66; Mrs. Agnes Lee, died of nervous
prostration brought on by the heat
Mrs. Martin Burns and Jacob Haffner
were taken to the hospital suffering
from the heat.
F. Cunningham and F. M. Stark
We're also taken to the hospital in Sc
rious condition The highest tempera-
ture was 81 degrees.
NINETY AND NINE.
LOUISVILLE, July 4.-The hottest
to-day was 80 degrees at 1:3O o'clock.
Tonight the temperature was 90 de-
grees at z o'clock.
SUNSTROKES IN MICHIGAN
DETROIT, July 4.-The maximum
high temperature to-day, according to
the official observation bureau was "a
degrees. The only severe cases of pros
tration in the city were those of two
employees of the Hotel Barclay and they
We're reported out of danger tonight
An unknown man died near Wyandotte
and there were several minor cases of
pTostration. Cases of sunstroke are re-
ported from some of the Southern
Michigan towns
PITTSBURG'S HOTTEST DAY.
FITTSBURG, July 4-This was Pitts
burg's hottest day, but owing to exceed
iEgly low humidity no fatalities nor SER
ious prostrations resulted The Gov
ernment thermometer registered 9S.4
as the maximum, which was reached at
5 p. m. Local thermometers showed the
mercury changing between los and 110
almost the entire day.
TWO DEAD IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, July 4.-The wave of tor
rid weather under which the Central
States sweltered last night showed no
abatement to-day. From Pittsburg to
Kansas City and from Chicago south
cioudless skies and a blazing sun left
a record of prostrations and death which
has seldom been equaled for the early
days of July. Throughout the entire
district 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 TO so degrees for the
greater part of the day and there were
over a score of prostrations. At mid
night severe thunder storm swept over
the city, sending the mercury down sew
eral points and bringing a welcome re-
lief.