Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-09
Suns Rays Fall With Willing Effect
Upon SYelterins Humanity.
MERCURY PASSES CENTURY MARK
As High as 1O2 Registered Mt seve-
raj Places I'm the City-Great Suffer-
ing in the TOundries and Facto-
rics-IIeat in other Places

yesterday from the effects OF the heat and
several cases Of prostration.
Those who died from sunstroke were:
Peter Brown. of No. 1923 Ashland street;
aged "A years.
William Coy, living on Twenty-fourth
street; aged IS years.
Coy died within an hour after being
stricken. while Brown lived about nine
hours. Both were negroes. There were Il
number Of cases where persons were over
come by the heat and had to be treated
by physicians, but none OF these were Sc
stoue.
DID NOT LIVE LONG.
William Coy was engaged in pulling
down a house at Grace and Fourth streets
when stricken with sunstroke. DR.. Lemon,
who responded promptly to a call for the
ambulance, carried Coy TO the City Hos
pital, and he died almost Immediately
upon getting there.
Peter Brown was at work on the Chalk
ley Warehouse. being erected at the Nam
chester end of the Free bridge, when
stricken. He, too, was taken to the aims
house by Or. Lemon and given the best
possible treatment. but the case was hope
less and he died at IL o'clock last night.
DR.. Lemon was called at 1885 yesterday
morning to Thornton's tobacco-factory,
Twenty-ffth and Main streets, to attend
woman overcome by heat. She was
treated and left.
Gilbert Thorp, a small boy. was over
come by heat early yesterday morning.
He. too, was treated by DIR. Lemon and
left as comfortable as possible. There
were numerous other minor cases.
AN OPPRESSIVE JUNE DAY.
Yesterday was one of the most oppres-
siye June DAYS ever experienced here.
The heat was intense and suffering was
general. Especially was this true OF en-
ployees in the large manufacturing pants
and factories. The salesgirls In the stores
found the heat most oppressive. People
we're careful to spend as little time as
POSSIBLE on the street, especially on the
sunny side.
In many places the thermometer went
above the century mark. The highest
figure registered by the Dispatch lnstru-
ment was SO degrees at 3 o'clock, with the
very high average from 3 A. NJ 10 Hl,"-
niyht of g21-2 The thermometer at the
door of the Tredegar Company's ONCE
registered l02 degrees at &c CLOCK, ana d'
the same hour at the Third Police station
the same degree of temperature was ie
corded. The men at the various roh-
works suffered intensely from the neat.
While the weather has been very oppres-
civa for some DAYS. it has not. in reality.
been so much worse than some days IN
lime last year were. The intensely not
smells last year did not last so long, now
ever. as the present one. Inc maximum
temperature June 4, 1898. was ~, while ON
the 10th and Goth of that month the mer-
curry Jumped UP to 1Gl. The average max
imum temperature for the month was S5.d'
making the month the hottest by ue-
grees of any June IN twenty years.
WHAT FARMER EVANS SAYS.
Weatherman Evans was asked for a
statement concerning the weather, ana
he gave out the following:
The temperature continues high over
all the districts east of the MISSISSIPPI
Valley and south of the Lake REGION
and New England States. Inc line oi
eighty temperature passed miami Ihui >
1av morning between New York city and
phi,adeInhia and thence south along the
Atlantic and west along ;he Gulf coasts.
II is probable that over all the territory
south of the Ohio Valley and along the
Atlantic coast south of New York, the
temperature reached IS degrees, or more
to-day. and that on Friday. from Nlr-
einia south, an equal degree of heat VIII
be attained, unless mitigated by the oc-
currence of local storms. which, now
ever. are not indicated at present In
This vicinity the probabilities are so
evenly balanced between fair weather
and thunder-showers that no man can
predict with any reasonable degree of
certainty what tomorrow friday Will
bring forth.