The Washington times., 1901-07-31
ANOTHER SWELTERlNG DAY
Expected Thunderstorm Passes by
Without Giving Relief.

Only Few Cities Warmer Than
WashinEton-NearI n Dozen Hent
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Weather Pre-
intensely hot weather again prevailed
in Washington yesterday. and. although
| the temperature was not quite so high as
on Monday, the amount of suffering en-
dured on account of the terrific heat was
great. Officially. the thermometer showed
! only 30 degrees at 3 O'Clock, the hottest
hour of the day. but the actual heat as
| felt in the business portion of the city
was considerable higher. and the entire
city sweltered from dawn till darkness.
without relief. An unusually high humid
ty increased the bad conditions. Coats
were generally discarded, and palm-leaf
fans and ice water were in great demand.
Washington was one of the hottest cities
in the country east of the Rocky Noun
| tains. Philadelphia and few small
places on the Atlantic coast were one
degree hotter. With these exceptions
Washington stood at the head of the list
Eight cases of heat prostration were re-
ported last night from the various hospi-
tails. Harrison Jones. colored. aged fifty
three years. spent the night at the
Georgetown University Hospital. as the
result of heat stroke during the after
noon. He was working on sewer on
Arizona Avenue extended. when he be-
came exhausted, and was compelled to
quit and go to the hospital in the Seventh
precinct patrol wagon. His recovery is
probable. Jones lives at 1928 Bell Court
northwest.
Thomas Thackeray, aged sixty years.
became i'll at Fourteenth Street and
Maryland Avenue southwest. about noon
yesterday. He was sent to the Emergency
in the ambulance. The physicians found
he was a sufferer from the heat. and gave
him treatment The patient lives at 500
Eleventh Street southwest.
Augustus Toense, aged thirty-seven
years, whose home is at 500 North Capitol
Street. was overcome by the heat near
his home late in the afternoon. He, also,
is at the Emergency. and will recover
Benjamin Dixon, negro. twenty-nine
years old. succumbed to the heat last
evening. He was taken ill at his home.
2l29 Virginia Avenue northwest, and was
removed by the police TO the hospital for
treatment.
Irwin Small of All 1 Street northwest.
who keeps a small store. occupied bed
at the Emergency last night. and it was
said he had suffered from the heat Small
is thirty-eight years old
B. n. Caldwell. forty years old, of
1923 Fifth Street northwest, was picked
up by the police when he was overcome
by the heat at Thirteenth and F Streets
northwest. He was taken to the Emerg-
ency and received treatment Caldwell
says he is a laborer. and is employed on
a new building on F Street
Henry Jones. colored. a laborer of S1I
Virginia Avenue southwest, was placed at
the Emergency for treatment for heat
stroke last night. His condition is not
very serious.
Thomas Hcrkerford. thirty-eight years |
old, of 204 Fifteenth Street northwest, be- |
came very III at the Tenth Street wharf |
last night from the effects of the heat He |
was sent to the Emergency in the ambu- |
lance
Turner Fairfax, colored. forty-five years |
of age, who resides at 120 Second Street |
southwest, was overcome by the heat !
shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
near the corner of Seventh and n Streets |
northwest. He was removed to Freed |
mans Hospital in the police ambulance.
The cooler weather promised by the |
Weather Bureau came to pass. for the |
rs on the day before. but the temperature |
was so very little Cooler that nobody |
in Washington realized that there was
my difference. The thunder showers pre-
iicte6 and eagerly looked for until late
asst night. when all hope was abandoned.
lid not materialize. Clouds there were in
,lenty. but there was no sign OF a storm.
md disappointment was written on every
ace which scanned the skies IN hope of
cooling downpour. During the after
noon the breeZes were lazy, scarcely a
,reath of air stirring.
The mercury in Uncle Sans thermom-
ter at the weather place in NJ Street rose
teadily from o'clock yesterday morning
lrtil in the afternoon, when 1t reached
he pinnacle for the day. After that point
t descended slowly. registering 81 degrees
It O'Clock in the afternoon, 50 at
clock, and IS at 10 o'clock. at IL o'clock
loon the thermometer showed 92 degrees
# heat, having risen from "A at o'cloek,
md S. at S o'clock a. m The weather was
ultry, sticky. and disagreeaple in the ex-
RENE. All energy was sapped away by
he burning sun and the heavy air, and
Istlessness pervaded the very atmosphere
# the capital.
The Weather Bureau predicted last
1ght that someW nat cooler weather
would prevail today. The temperature
owever, according to the Weather ex-
erts. will remain in the vicinity OF the
mark. although the mercury in all prob
bility Will not rise much beyond that
oint.
Some good rains fell yesterday in the
orn belt. greatly relieving conditions
here. The best feature of the rains, ac-
ording to the Weather Bureau Is the
act that the rains fell where they were
loSt needed. Indiana was dry yesterday |
Though showers fell all around the
tate. Showers also occurred in Missouri
owa, eastern Nebraska eastern Kansas
nd in other parts of the great crop ,
elt 1t will be warmer today west Of |
he Mississippi. and on Thursday warmer
'eather will prevail again east of the
ver on the Atlantic coast conditions |
ill remain about the same today.