Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-07-06
AWFUL MORTALITY.
A Pier in Chicago Is Struck by
Lightning.
Eleven Out of Twelve Persons Hud-
died Under 1t Are Instantly Killed
Heat Claims q Large MIMI
Der of Victims.

died Under 1t Are instantly Killed
Heat Claims e Large MIMI
Der of Victims.
Chicago, July ELEVEN boys were
killed by a bolt of lightning Monday
afternoon. They had been fishing on
the pier near Montrose boulevard and
had taken refuge under piling. An
other was injured SO badly that he
will die.
Willie Anderson, the only person to
escape death, was taken from under
the heap of bodies with his legs and
back paralyzed by the shock, but it
is thought he will recover. That por-
ton of the pier covered by the rude
zinc roof was SO small that the vic
Tins had been crowded together in a
heap. They were pressed SO close to-
gether that all had been killed by
the one thunderbolt as by a current
in an electrocution. The Anderson
boy was in such a position that he
failed to receive the full force of the
charge. The faces of the dead were
blackened almost beyond recognition
and the bodies were SCARED and
scared from head to foot.
In "Haydn's Book of Dates the
largest fatality recorded is from a
bolt which killed nine persons. That
was in 1919 at church in the Alps.
Hot Days Continue.
Washington, July 2. = The hot
weather continued here Monday with
undated tierceness, the climax COM
ing in the afternoon, when the local
record for this early in the summer
was broken, the weather bureau Their
mometer recording a temperature of
102 degrees. Fortunately there was
not much humidity in the atmos-
phere. There were 20 cases of heat
prostration reported and one result
ed fatally, Lewis Ashton, a negro la
borer, 46 years of age, dying not long
after he reached the hospital.
Extent of the Hot Wave.
The present hot wave started in the
west June 20 and the weather bureau
officials report that high tempera-
lures are recorded in most sections
east of the Rocky mountains and
many places west of them. Rains,
most of them moderate in amount,
have fallen in many places. The pre-
cipitation has been very great in a
few places. In Chicago the fall
amounted to 1.56 inches in Jackson
vile, Fla, to 1.24 inches; Omaha,
Neb., .6S inches, and Davenport, Ia,
"a of an inch. Thunderstorms have
occurred in West Virginia, Iowa and
the lower lake region. By to-day re-
lief is promised in the middle Missis-
sippi valley, the lower Missouri val
ley, the upper lake region, and by
Wednesday in the Ohio valley and
possibly the western part of the
lower lake region. For the next As
hours along the northeastern coast
the prospects favor more hot wealth
er. In New York city the PROBABLE
ties seem to favor a continuation of
existing conditions, with no immedi-
ate prospects of relief. In the latter
city the temperature Monday was
again 9S, the highest previous rec
ords for that city in July for 30 years
being 90. In Philadelphia the heat
broke all records for the past 30
years for July, reaching a. maximum
of 1O2. Some of the othert high tenn
peratures recorded during the day by
the weather bureau were:
Atlanta, Ga, 80 degrees; Atlantic City.
80; Boston, 80; Chicago, go; Cincinnati,
Sc; Davenport Ia, Sc; Des Moines, Ia,
90; indianapolis, 80; Jacksonville, Fla,
"a; Kansas City, 100; Little Rock, Ark,
90; Memphis, 92; New Orleans, 80; New
York, SO; Omaha "a; Pittsburgh 9S; Salt
Lake City, 90; st. Louis, 100; st. Paul, 90;
Springfield, H., 96; Vicksburg, Miss. 80.
Fifty-Seven Die I'm New York.
New York, July Monday was the
hottest July on record. At $40 p. m.
the thermometer at the weather office
reached 90 degrees, one degree hotter
than Sunday The records show that
in the 80 years preceding on only two
days in all that period has a higher
| temperature been reached. These
were July 9, 1876, and July 3, 1898. On
| these days the thermometer reached
90 degrees The percentage of hui
nudity Monday was only 4S. After
80 p. m. decline began until 1t nine
<.
Between the hours of two a. M and
midnight there were reported 81
| deaths and 141 prostrations in the
| boroughs of Manhattan and the
Bronx. From midnight Sunday night
to nine o'clock Monday night 81 deaths
| and sc prostrations had been re-
| ported in Brooklyn.
| Six Victims in st. Louis
st. Louis, July 2.-July was ushered
| in with scarcely any abatement of
| the heat that marked the closing
| days of June. Starting at five o'clock
| at 81 degrees, the mercury in the
| thermometer at the weather bureau
rose steadily, reaching 100 at eight
| o'clock. 1t did not main long at
this point, however, and an hour aft
er the highest point had been reached
had dropped two degrees. AS night
| drew near breeze cooled the atmos-
| phere. Six deaths from heat are re-
| ported.