The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-08
THE HOT WAVE BROKEN.
RELIEF CAME FROM THE SEA AT SCN-
SET AFTER 4 TORRID Dir.

From 90 mt Soon the Temperature Dropped
to 05' at Midnight twenty. -four Deaths
and Many Prostrations in the Twenty.four
Hours Swarm Of Dragon Flies In Town.
The heat wave is broken. The lofty amhi-
tion OF the official thermometer was nipped in
tho bud yesterday morning by the spirit Of .
cool Northwestern. Later breezy refrigeration.
mostly from seward. sent the temperature
flying down % from its maximum afternoon
record OF O3'.
The mercury started in like silver spangled
acrobat climbing n ladder, apparently bound
to smash another June record Al SA VI II
had mounted to rung ~ which Is higher by
six rungs than 1t got AT the same hour on Tues
day. Then the coolneS. from the northwest
began to blow ON the fcycrish bulb. The sill
very acrobat took fresh grip and laburiously
mounted To rung SO Then that il. about 3
o'clock in the afternoon il was rung down"
1t began to fall gradually very gradually, until
sunset
The breeze shifted slowly to the southwark.
losing force but not GOODNESS. At sunset il had
acquired an easterly tendency, and Tor the first
time in weeks the delightful flavor of the sea
rermeated all the horoughs. The satiness
was especially noticeable in Brooklyn AtSP. VI.
the wind was blowing fresh from the SOUTH
east The temperature on the official tower
was then So 1t fell thirteen degrees in an
hour and in two and half hours or at 1870
7. M, dropped three more degrees. or down to
81. At midnight it was onlv 81 The breeze
was then about east northeast and had gait
OF about twenty miles alott, The unex-
ESeted DUE relief from tho sea was rr1SS
way. The GOODNESS was accumulated by ths
passage q storm to the north OF us. II was
comfortable with windows down last night In
that part OF Brooklyn within II mile or so OF
the sen.
life afoot mighty uncomfortuble. The torridity
OF other days in the tall reservoirs OF stone and
and the cIane OF the AMBULANCE gong startled
the ear n crowded places aces, Tnns Of f9animg
| whose mouths and noses were filed with the
d%S 3 rS ta dsyS neors
S h q moS E from tho Jersey sWsme
dragon, dies. or MOSQUITO hawks, known
ing nsedIes = sWn5@ed into New tY%art
The nnv doubles & M,6
the hen noble beasts thouq they NIGHT Be worse
than mosquitoes and slew some OF them:
| They were numerous IN the neighborhood OF
| some OF the residents there were put in fright
when the big eyed insects invaded their homes.
Several fine specimens were caght by amateur
| naturasts downtown In the rooms OF office
Twcnty.four deaths from the heat in Man:
| haitian. Brooklyn and the Bronx were reported
| to the police in the course Of the day twenty
number was swelled by many little children
from the tenement districts. In Manhattan
and the Bronx twenty-six more people and in
Brooklyn ten more were removed ID hospitals
suffering from heat prostration.
| This is a list OF the dead:
MANHATTAN.
AsTRALro. VINCENT. 80 yeirs old of 55T West Thr~
| AIExASpER. Mrs. YFrr>. "s years old. OF sa Fast
BtNxiaHAM, WILLIAM 4h years old, 81 4aa Green
BoLr1 H.SSAH, months old, of 2o5 West Thirty.
| sixth street.
| BRoCATo vIScESzo = months old. Of 10 Oak street.
| BURKE. JAMES. months old. OF 22d West sixty.
| second street. -..
| DISGuIRE ALFRED 3 weeks old, Of 11a East losth
| street.
| kent ErNIcH, months old. Of al4 Fast Ninety.
| LASA, -. . days old Of III Columbus avenue
| LoBEsT. HERMAN c.. IL months old Of @a5 West
| Fortieth street.
! LorTA DoMIsIcK. Q months old. OF $50 Cherry
street
| LERroR.. AGNES. 4 years old. OF 30 Leroy street.
| MEEHAS. PATRIcK. ~ years old. Of 3s2 Bergen
| street. Brooklyn. Died in Gouyeneur Hospital:
| NAGLE. CARoTiSE, II years old of IA West Thirty
0'SHfA. THOMAS. OF 400 Fast Sixty. second street,
| fireman in the Hotel Majestic.
| RYAS, BRIDGET, 81 years old. Of -jS West Twenty
scHuMAS, MARY 81 year. old, Of ~ First street.
SMITH. ELMER r, IL months old, Of 4o1 West
Unknown man, suppos ed to he ]. Meyer Of ClevS
wHEEIEHAx. JAMES. ~ years old. of 7se Third
| avenue
| BROOKLYN.
JESSINGs JAMES. 30 years old. OF az Butler street.
KELLY. JOHN, years old, OF Bay Thirteenth street.
MARoEE JULIA ~ years old. of 90 Boerum street.
| WFIBE. FREDERICK, 30 years old, of l+5 CornelA
| street,