The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-11
STORM BROUGHT RELIEF
TEMPORARY BREAK IN THE HEAT
ED TERM AT LEAST If
NOTHING MORE
MERCURY FALLS SHARPLY
Lightning Struck a Number of Build
ings In st. Paul During the
Evening-NO Heat Pros
tratfons.

Relief has come at last.
After seven days of the most intense
heat which the people of st. Paul have
ever experienced, during which period the
temperature sustained a maximum stand
ard of over 80 degrees, the terrible OPP
pressiveness has at last been relieved by
a copious shower that fell last night
According to the predictions of Fore
caster Lyons it may be expected that
this relief is permanent, and that while
some very warm weather may yet be
felt this season st. Paul will not again
be called upon to suffer this summer as
she has during the past week or ten
days.
Never was friend more gladly greeted
than the rainfall which began at about
8 o'clock last night and continued
throughout the greater part of the dark
hours. 1t was no occasion for demon
strative ovations, but the inward happi-
ness over the advent of the rain, even
though it came In the form of storm,
was generally manifest.
The change in the temperature was
Thermometer registered go degrees of
heat, and at o'clock it was only 81, while
at midnight the mercury had dropped to
72, making a fall of twenty degrees in
about six hours That this change, radi-
cal as 1t was, brought comfort and hap
piness, goes without saying, when it is
remembered that for over q week past
nearly everybody young and old alike,
had found 1t most trying ordeal to at
tempt to sleep, while the nights were so
Interestingly sultry and oppressive. This
sultriness was due throughout the pc
Rod to the great humidity, which is I'M
precedented in Its extent.
To the memory of the hot spell let 1t
be said that 1t Is generally conceded to
have been the hottest and longest ever
felt in this city. 1t may be a little pre-
time for the final subduing Of old Sol,
but 1t can be safely ventured that the
worst at least Is over.
A sorroWful feature Of the storm last
night is to be found in the account of
fires, aggregattng considerable loss,
which follow:
FIRED BY LIGHTNING.
The fire department was kept busy for
awhile last night during the thunder
storm, in extinguishing fires at three diff
ferent places that were started by light
ming.
The barn of M. D. Mum, the attorney,
at $40 Goodrich avenue, was struck by
lightning and totally destroyed. The
horses and carriages were saved and the
damage will amount to about $1,000 The
house of the coachman, Gus Carlson,
which is right in front of the barn was
untouched.
The residence of Henry Brown, at 29S
Arundel street was struck by lightning,
and the curtains in one of the rooms On
the second floor were burned. The dam
age only amounted to about $25
The fire department was also called to
East Third and Forest streets to ex-
tinguish a small blaze in the rear of a
grocery store where Joseph Arth lived.
Lightning was the cause. No damage
was done.
The fire department was called to the
home of George Hermann, 1894 Prescott
street on the West side, about twenty
minutes to six last night to extinguish
small blaze started by a gasoline stove
explosion. The damage amounted to $25,
and no one was hurt.
Fire was discovered early last evening
in the barn belonging to E. P. Bassford,
architect, at 449 Iglehart street The
damage only amounted to about $40. The
department is Of the opinion that the fire
was due to incendiarism, as there was
very strong kerosene snlell ABOUT lie
place
TOO HOT FOR CARRIERS.
The 1880 a. M mail delivery will be
discontinued beginning with this morning
by order of Assistant Superintendent j.
w. Keefe Of the mail service, until the
temperature goes down a little. The or
der will only apply in the down town dis
tricts The postmen have been working
without cessati from 6:55 a. m. until
noon, when they were only allowed an
hours time before starting on the
O. clock delivery The present arrange
ment will make it possible for them to
rest from II until 1 o'clock during this
terrible spell of torrid weather, which Is
none too long, considering the long and
ardorous rounds that they make in the
heat of the day usually with heavy packs.
1t is hoped that the business houses will
not be seriously inconvenience by the
change.