The Irish standard., 1901-07-06

Washington, July 3.-The weather
bureau has issued the following spe-
ciaT bulletin:
''There are no present indications of a
permanent break in the warm wave which
+ covers the country generally east of the
Rocky mountains. Local rains and thun-
derstorms will furnish temporary relief in
the lower lake region, the upper Ohio val
ley and in the mountain districts of Penn
sylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and
Virginia. and there is a possibility that
n these local rains may occur in limited areas
Nm Atlantic coast states.
i u (Signed) 'H. E. WILLIAMS,
acting Chief"
Long Death List at Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh, Pa, July 3.-Twelve
deaths and 60 prostrations from the
heat were reported between midnight
Monday night and II o'clock Tuesday
morning, making the number of fatal
tiles 40 in "a hours. The dead report
ed up to II o'clock were:
Charles Blank, aged SO years, bricklayer;
Benjamin Evans, aged 56 years, tailor,
found dead; unknown Italian, aged about
IS years; John Norasil, aged AZ years; UNI
known negro. died in Homeopathic hos
pital; unknown foreigner, died in Allie
gheny general hospital; Fred Roessler,
aged 30 years; infant male child of Merge
Macui; Eva Carey, aged seven weeks; an
infant male child of Michael Demonik, died
after few hours with cholera infantum;
John Ragy, aged % years: Mrs. Nancy Mer-
Ger, aged So years. 49,
Sixteen others died Monday after
noon and Monday night as direct re-
suit of the heat. Their names:
OF
infant; Louis Kersabire, aged 35i John
Heidish, aged AZ; John Metz aged As; Sam
uel McGinnis aged 46; Mrs. Mary Povlak,
John Carr, William Anderson, Thomas AL
bert, infant; Charles Elliott, infant;
Charles Weick, aged %; John Augustine,
heat; John Shipka, aged 81; John Nichlaus,
aged 80; Martin Gullck.
Nearly every mill and furnace not
affected by the strike is crippled from
the great number of heat prostrations
of the employees, and many mills have
been forced to entirely suspend opera
lions.
While Monday night was not as close
as the previous night, thousands ofper-
sons in the tenement districts slept in
Railways or stone steps and brick pave
ments.
A walk up Webster avenue was diff
cult. Not only the sidewalks, but even
the roadway was full of people trying
to sleep. Many poor mothers sat up
all night watching their slumbering
children that harm might not come to
them as they lay on the pavements.
At eight o'clock in the morning the
mercury stood at rs, six degrees cool
er than at the same hour Monday, and
/. at II o'clock it had risen to sc degrees.
Il The Indications are for thunder show
ers and lower temperature Wednesday.
Fifty-two men were prostra ted with
the heat while at work in the finishing
mills, Nos. 2s and land open hearth
mill, No. 3, of the Home stead steel
works, during the night. Tuesday
morning the mills were compelled to
close down on account of the heat.
Killing Heat Continues at New York.
New York, July 3.-The weather
bureau thermometer was at the 81
mark at noon, one degree higher than
at noon Monday. So many horses have
been killed or disabled by the hest
that deliveries of provisions and ice
were much retarded Tuesday, thus
), adding to the discomfort of the suffer-
ing.
In Brooklyn 80 sudden deaths were
reported to the coroner's office be-
tween midnight and nine a. M, and of
these II were directly due to the heat.
At II o'clock the police department
lists showed that from midnight to
that time total of 50 deaths from
heat had been reported in Greater
New York. Nearly all the dead were
adults.
In the interior cities of the state
: the heat was generally but little
abated. At Troy the temperature at
eight a. m. was SO degrees, three de-
grees warmer than at the same hour
Monday. Deaths at Troy since the
) hot spell began number six.
At Rochester at nine o'clock the
tempera ture was 81 degrees and the
humidity 62. At Buffalo the tempera-
ture was 76 degrees at nine o'clock.
At Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, July AT IL o'clock
the official thermometer recorded 100
degrees, one degree more than at the
same hour Monday. Sixteen deaths
had occurred and over 100 prostra-
tions had been reported up to that
time.
Manufacturing establishments in
all sections of the city were compelled
to close. Cramps ship yard began
operations at four o'clock in the morn
ing and closed at noon.
y During the morning the Baldwin To-
connective works closed three depart
ments, the Aange, machine and ham,
ner shops. The men in the other de-
partments were told that they could
go home whenever they felt that the
heat was too oppressive. John and
James Dobson's big carpet mills also
4 closed down, the 1900 employees being
sent home.
Violent Storm in Kentucky.
Middlesboro, KY, July "a violent
storm resembling tornado wrought
havoc across Cumberland Gap, in Pow
eE's valley. A half dozen small farm
houses were demolished, together with
large number of barns. There was
come 1ocs of 1ifo Inf no ri ioularc have