The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-23
1t WAS A SCORCHER
MELTING MOMENTS WE'RE VERY
NUMEROUS ALL DAY IN TOWN
YESTERDAY
ONE DEATH FROM sUNsTRoKE
The Victim Was Michael HestOn, of
669 BrOadway-Area of Low Bar
Ometer Remained Nearly Sta
tiOnary-Drug Store ThermOm-
eters Ram Up as High as 81 De-
grees in the Shade.

Everybody, except those favored few
who were employed in the cooling rooms
at the several breweries, admitted yes
terday that it was hot. The clerks at
the soda fountains by adroitly standing
in the waves of air from the electric
fans and abstaining from eating or drink
ing any of the decoctions they sold man
aged to keep from melting, but even
this class declared 'it was very warm"
There was a breeze according to the
weather man, blowing from the south,
but it was hard to find and not much
use in the way of cooling when one could
locate it. The humidity, as the weather
bureau puts it, was Ga, and this explains
why the atmosphere was so moist and
sticky and the breeze made one feel just
as warm as if there had been none.
COLD WAVE POSTPONED.
Weather Observer Lyons stated yester-
day afternoon that the "area of low baro-
meter which had induced the hot spell
remained nearly stationary" The thun-
der showers predicted for yesterday fail
ed to come to time and they are not
included in the predictions for today
For this reason it might be fair pre-
sumption that there will be some showers
other than those of heat.
The report of the weather office gives
the highest temperature as 81, the lowest
Il, the mean temperature 81 and the range
20 degrees. Nearly all observing persons
can tell just when it was 81 and, in fact,
nine out of ten of the citizens who had
to work yesterday will make affidavit
that it was 101 in the shade, but few, if
any, could be found last evening who
would believe that at any time the ther-
mometer dropped as low as II.
MERCURY MAY SLUMP.
Drug store therometers in various parts
of the city ranged all the way from IS
to 81 in the shade and these figures prob
ably express the views of the majority
of the people as to the heat more cor
rectly than the quicksilver tube in the
office of the weather observer Even
taking the figures of the weather office
as the real thing the maximum tempera-
ture yesterday was 81, as against 80 on
Friday. The predictions are that the
wind will continue to blow from the
south and that the temperature will be
slightly lowered
DEATH FROM SUNSTROKE.
The first death of the summer from
sunstroke, occurred at the city hospital
yesterday, when Michael Heston living
at 669 Broadway, died from the effects
Of Fridays severe heat. The effects of
the sunstroke were not at once apparent
but during Friday night Heston became
Ill and was taken to the hospital yes
terday The physicians diagnosed the
case as one Of sunstroke. Shortly after 2
o'clock Heston died.
Heston was a laborer Friday he was
at work hauling stone. One of his horses
fell down and it took some time to get
the animal on its feet The driver la
bored in the hot sun with the horse, lift
Ing and trying to assist the animal to
rise. 1t was doubtless this exposure and
exertion that affected Heston so that he
was afterWard overcome. When he re-
turned to his home in the evening Heston
did not complain of feeling unwel. He
retired at the usual time, but about 2
O'Clock in the morning he was taken with
commissions. A physician was called, but
the stricken man grew worse until noon
yesterday, when he was sent to the hos
p1tal. He was then in a state of uncon-
seriousness and did not rally
The dead man leaves a wife. who was
with him at the time of his death.