The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-08
OLD SOL WAS RAMPANT
YESTERDAY WAS ONE OF THE
HOTTEST DAYS OF THE
YEAR
SEVERlL DEATHS In CHICAGO
NUMEROUS REGISTRATIONS AND
FOUR FATALITIES REPORTED
FROM NEW YORK
SAME REPORTS ELSEWHERE
In the East the Hot Spell Expected
to Last for Two Days More
Mercury Over Ninety
Mark.

CHICAGO, Aug. 7.-Excessive heat af-
f1icted Chicago today, and according to
the representations of the weather Of
flee it will continue through Wednesday
and Thursday, and perhaps longer. The
highest point reached today was 93 In
the weather Office. On the street it
was anywhere from s5 to 80. There were
four deaths and a score of prostrations
half dozen of which are serious.
The dead are: Matthew Ahles, Ida
Falken, Frederick Davis, infant child
of Bohemian family on West Twelfth
street.
Since the establishment Of the weather
bureau in Chicago there has been but
one instance that the mercury reached
80 five days in succession. The record
for continued heat will be broken on
Thursday, which will make six days
The weather office declares that there is
not in the METRE country sign Of let up
III the intense heat.
NEW YORK, Aug. THE hot wave
which struck New York Monday con-
unUed tonight with little prospect of
early relief. At noon the thermometer
had climbd 81 degrees, and at o'clock
went up to 90 degrees. A breeze, which
had been lacking all day sprang up and
at o'clock the temperature had dropped
two degree, but climbed up again between
4 and o'clock to it's highest point of the
day. " degrees. From that point 1t
steadily dropped. There were nearly 100
prostrations reported during the day.
but the fatalities were few, only three
being reported
KANSAS CITY, Aug. Two prostra-
tions from heat and one death of an
Italian laborer occurred here today. The
government thermometer at o'clock
registered g.
DUBUQUE, To-, Aug. 7.-Business was
practically suspended today on account
of the intense heat The government
mark was SO, but private thermometers
indicated as high as 81.
LA CROSSE, Wis, Aug. To-day was
the hottest day of the season, the ther-
mometer registering 96 in the shade. No
proStrations were reported.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 7-There were
about thirty prostrations from heat dur
Ing the day and one fatality.
The official thermometer on the top of
the postoftice building reached its high
est point at O'Clock this afternoon, when
it registered 95 degrees.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 7.-Patrick Kelly.
ironworker, died tonight from the effect
of the heat, and of the nine persons
prostrated, J. F. Hammil will prol@bly
die before morning.
SUFFERING ST. PAUL.
If there is the least scintilia of truth in
the Old adage, that variety is the spice
of life,' the people of st. Paul must be
well nigh dead, or life is not worth liv-
ing in the Sanity City-and who, who
can ever believe this?
The weather man for one is certainly
not a dfciple of the faith of this old say
ing, for he has given us -four straights'
on the weather proposition without the
hope of change. He says the best he
can do is to hold out the prophecy that
we are to have thunderstorms, with
more hot weather.
The hot weather part is easy enough
to believe, but there has been nothing
seen by the anxious thousands of the
thunderstorms as yet.
The weather yesterday was even more
oppressive than the day before on ac-
count of the humidity, which made 1t
extremely hard to bear. At midnight the
mercury was two degrees higher than at
twenty-four hours previous despite the
fact that showers had fallen in the mean
time
The only consoling feature In this state
Of affairs, which has confronted the peo-
pie for several days past, is that we are
not alone in our misery. The fact that
misery loves company" is all too true
and even Saints are gratified to glance
at the weather map and find that hui
manity in other parts of the country
is suffering as greatly and even greater
than they. Everybody seems to be in
pain, except the ice man.
All reports seem to indicate that there
Is no hopes of an immediate change in
the atmosphere, and the wires bring
statements from various portions of the
East that are very distressing So far
no lives have been taken in this section
by the heat, but this cannot be said
of Chicago, New York and other Eastern
and Middle West cities.
The heat in the Dakotas and Montana
and Nebraska. is reported to continue
with intense oppressiveness, and in
Washington, D. c., people are finding it
difficult to get relief from the elements.
Seriously, it is a warm proposition and
almost an unprecedented one for the
Northwest in parts of which the wealth
er has been incomparatively hotter than
in the Twin Cities