New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-04
HEATS FATAL SIEGE.
FORTY-SEvEN DEATHS AND SCORES OF
REGISTRATIONS RECORDED.
IT MAY BE COOLER To-DAY-MoRE THUNDER
STORMS PREDICTED FOR THE AFTERNOON
YESTERDAYS QUEER SHOWERS.

within the tWenty-four hours closing AT nionisnt
last night In Manhattan and The Bronx alone from
the effects OF the awful heat. while scores were
Frustrated shows more accurately and more wildly
the suffering that has been caused By the four days
OF devastating high temperatures under which the
city and the country have been suffering than any
recital Of the lofty attitudes reached by the ther-
mometer There many deaths In Brooklyn
too which could traced to the heat and in Man
haitian there doubtless many more to which
the terrible weather contributed.
Some OF those who were stricken died where
they fell. before help could reach them. Others
died in ambuances the way 10 the hospitals.
and still others after arriving at the hospitals.
IT was a terrible day for the hospital surgeons
and the STATS OF those institutions All the hospi
tails were already comfortably filed by sick and
wounded soldiers but they were filed to overflow
Ing by the persons who taken in suffering
from the heat.
TERRIBLE SUFFERING CAUSED
Friday night was a terrible night for the whole
city but I'm the tencment-house districts II was In
many cases fatal night. People slept or tried 10
sleep, on the roofs by thousands The hrc-escapes
and the doorwnys crowded to sunocation,
while many passed the night In the parks or walk
Ing the streets. All sought in vain for relief
Whenever a hydrant opened for the relief OF
some person suddenly overcome. II was at once
surrounded by crowds clamoring TO lave their heads
and hands in the cooling streams. The public baths
yesterday.
The day was not a record breaker. but II was
nearly that and nobody complained because 1t
failed Of the ambition IT seemed bent Upon nchiev-
Ing early in the day.
II was the hottest September 3 in twenty-three
years. September g. 1873. cquallcd the record mace
by the official thermometer yesterday. but no sep
TENDER 3 has ever exceeded yesterdays perform
ance IN the Of hcat-that -, since the rec
ords Of the Weather Bureau have been kept The
thermometer yesterday climbed up 10 - degrees IN
the middle Of the afternoon. and that was at the
top Of the tower Of the Manhattan Life building
Whatever the temperature Is by the official Their
moncter 1t is always scvera. degrees higher when
measured by tn clothes and the feelings OF 'he
pedestrians whom unknd fate compels TO perampu-
late broadway and the other business streets ot
tho CITY Plenty Of thermometers could he found
Yesterday I'm the streets which read 100 or even one
or two degrees higher. and these thermometers did
not stand IN the sun. either
Tho re.icf FOR which tho city has been looking FOR
DAYS seems likely to arrive to-day. According 70
the weather prophets. f. Will be partly CLOUDY
There are prophcsicd thunderstorms and cooler
weather tor this afternoon
NETWORKS CLIMATE 40 JOKE.
r, q, abou, time for the annual appearance Of tho
Enrllshman visiting this country for tho hrs'
zine 20 say that NeW-Yorks climate has been
,io,do,e1 lie would have received the scornfu
had he NfNtaifl upon NhhN 80 80
,erday 4 f., man who sat on the rear seat OF n
p-o.d,yov cahio-rar. and who was constantly en-
.o,od n .rdeavorirg 90 wipe the perspration rom
h,s bald pate with q handkerchief that was IN
capablc OF further absorption, remarked 10 MS
ncighbor. 49,,
81 So. bv tho papers last week That over IN Lon
, ,,., ,rere dropplnr In the streets. horses were
,t -. ,,rtr.ds and the whole city was suffer
,1r Tho ,ortures - the damned because the ~!
noinetcr stood % - desf..s AboN. ~ 2o,,ed In
fs ~
= c,ckir mar was almost hyst"rlcal but INC n' ~,
was not regarded as hi subject for amusement -
Mn per~ons were temporarily overcome by me
hrtt Yesterday who were ah" 90 t"' 70 '.'I 80,
.sl The g so1sl. Of the city suffered p,ensey
from the scorchins and many %, ngmin II was
u nmmon sirht on the lower Fast side 20 see a
crowd surTornd'nf 'o gn,,,eI zcai spinshcd him
with water from the nearest hydr"n'
HIGH TEMPERATURE EARLY
Tho dav started in with a high temperature AZ
Q O'Clock It was ~ A. 30 o'clock u was - "',' ~
o'clock - A. noon the thermometer hAd )u'"leu
-, O. licences but ~ took "a backstcp q one degree
IN the next ho0r. rising. however. To- " ~
In tho next thirty minutes II TOOK n'Nhu W w
,,-s 10 the q mark where Il stood Tor hhIi ia an
nour reccdiug another d"gr"" At 3 d" co N,.ioci
,hei tho thunderstorm that cogd b' Son az ,T -
In the Lower Bay and over ne "tS'tI" nv HoW-
Iong Island dropped the temperature III u" "'''
only fee drops fell In Mnnhaisn but ,or f hat
Ulyrr Al these figures are mos. Oh w acrs
pnreoi Thermometer ia reality NtW- 9i W. :,
-. M means 20 comfortable The hu"idlty ,
IN. dav Al = per cent, but the percentage w
sr.ht shower feu near Forty second 81 IN IN, D,
afternoon II got as Ear s0Ith ~ tn' M, 81 =
i,~,y.Grs,-s, The north side OF thls SUe't VIZ
&C., sbilc The south side remained az dry anu
dusty az before. , a, Il r.beorsoi
s., me casino yesterday wore overcome ny tie RI
90 u,r. carried home They were W H. ai.-
mn VI r-n-.rfv man. Edwir! Tyler MISS
-,tci J,idpioy and Nlss Hoffman All we're con
,.'.t vifu I'm. "Ielc OF New YORK company
,,,,t.h FL. r,hcarslng for road tour Mt. Nc, or
mack'a case was regarded a. serious. me "'h''s
not .,oo,r.s
The regular matinee performance al four thchtrrS'
inc Iycrum Wa'lack's the Garrick ana me Iaslho'
,,o,c 'pl,.r No Yesterday on account OF the neat
1Tbe oroning Of the Herald Squar" Theatre WIZ
"Thc French Mad" was postponed from last mRht
/ to tomorrow night. FOR the same reason