Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-07-04
All First of July PreCed0ntS EClpSed in
New York.
BALTIMORE The HOTTEST SPOT.
The Eastern Part of The Country Baked
In TOrrid Heat In The Afternoon
Hours of the Day.

New York, July To-day was the not
test July lst on record. AT $40 p. m. the
thermometer at the weather office reached
9S degrees, one degree hotter than yester'
day. The records show that, in the thirty
years preceding, on only two days In all
that period has higher temperature been
reached. These were July 9, 1876, and
July 8, 1898. On these days the thermom'
eter reached 80 degrees. The percentage
of humidity today was only As.
After $50 p. m. decline began, until
at o p. IN. the thermometer registered 92.
In the early morning hours there was
what might be termed light breeze blow.
ing, but during the early part of the after
noon the breeze died away, and the city
was baking in tOrrid heat. The suffering
in the city, and particularly in the crowd.
ed tenement house districts, was most in
tense. As the day grew the deaths and
prostrations increased, and although pro-
visions we're made in all the hospitals tor
this emergency, the authorities were
scarcely able to cope with the great tax
made on their resources.
Between the hours of a. m. and mid
night there were reported 81 deaths and
l4l prostrations in the boroughs OF Man
haitian and the Bronx.
From midnight last night till 900
O'Clock tonight, 2l deaths SO prostrations
have been reported in Brooklyn.
There were so many ambulance calls
that the police were called on to supply
patrol wagons, and every ambulance did
double duty in responding to calls. Many
patients were carried to hospitals in cabs
and carriages, and several went to Belle
WI and the Harlem Hospital in moving
vans. The prevalence of the grip among
the horses of the city also tended to mill
tate against effective work. In many
cases. horses had to be obtained from con-
tractors to draw patrol wagons and ambu'
lances.
Although the Weather Bureau shows
that the maximum was 9S, that does not
indicate the heat on the streets. Many
thermometers registered 10S at $40, and
all of them over 100 on the street level.
Washington, July According to the
Weather Bureau reports, Baltimore was
the hottest city in the country today. The
Weather Bureau thermometer recorded ST
degrees at five a. M, and from that hou
the mercury steadily mounted upward
until LOG was reached at noon. Up to II
o'clock tonight, nine deaths and about
twenty-five prostrations had been re-
ported.
Washington July 1.-The hot weather
continued here today with unabated fierce
ness. the climax coming in the afternoon
when the local record for this early in the
summer WIS broken, the Weather Bureau
thermometer recording temperature o
1O2 degrees. Fortunately there was no
much humidity in the atmosphere. Ther'
were twenty cases of heat prostration re
ported and ole resulted fatally.
All O'Clock tonight the thermomete
had fallen to 80 degrees with every proba
bility that 1t will not fall greatly beloV
that during tie night, and that tomorrow
will be a scorcher. There seems to be nj
prospect for any relief for the next A
hours in this vicinity. Beyond that lengtl
of time the Weather Bureau officials max
no predictions.
The present hot wave started in tn
West June goth, and today the Weathe
Bureau officials report that high tempers
tures are recorded in most sections east c
the Rocky Mountains, and many place
west of them. Rains, most of them moo
crate, have fallen in many places. Thunde
storms have occurred in West Virginis
Iowa and the lower Lake regions. BY Il
morrow relief is promised in the middl
Mississippi valley, the lower Missou
valley, the upper Lake region, and b
Wednesday in the Ohio valley, and pess
blv the western part Of the lower LAX
region. For the next fortyeight hou
along the northeastern coast the prospec
favor more hot weather.