The Washington times., 1901-07-06
THREE DEATHS FROM HEAT
Eight PrOstratiOns Also Recorded
Yesterday in the Capital.
Washington the Hottest Place on the
Atlantic Scaboard - Citizens Be
coming Accustomed 10 Taking
Safety Precautions - The Outlook.

| coming Accustomed TO BuhtHS =
safety Precautions - The Outlook.
Three deaths and eight prostrations, due
to the excessive heat, occurred yester-
day. During the past twenty-four hours
| Washington suffered more intensely than
| on any day previously, with the excep-
tion of Monday. the hottest day of the
week. The official temperature yesterday
was 90 degrees, making Washington, for
| the twenty=four hours of that day, the
hottest city east of the Appalachian Noun
tafns. Thunderstorms and local rains are
again promised for the sweltering city
today, accompanied by a drop in the mer-
| curry.
The deaths reported yesterday We're:
GEORGE CHANDLER, fifty years of
age. of 476 NJ Street southwest. St.ortly
after O'Clock last night he complained
of feeling i'll ard retired to his room.
| When a member of the family went to
| enquire about him shortly afterward ne
was found dead. The Coroner was noti-
| fled Immediately, and the body removed
| to the morgue at the Sixth precinct sta
ton.
MRS. WILLIAM CANNON. thirty-eight
years old. wife of William Cannon. pro-
| prietor of a saloon at 1925 Seventh Street
northwest died about o'clock last night
| from the effects of heat exhaustion. For
| ty-fiye minutes before death Mrs. Cannon
was chatting with members of her family
on the sidewalk in front of the saloon.
She was apparently in the best of health.
Complaining of illness. she went to her
room upstairs and died a few minutes
| after physician arrived.
a. X. McLANE, thirty years old. died
at the Homeopathic Hospital about 9:30
q clock 81 niph from tf. Of haa
prostraticn He was overcome at his
home, 1899 I Street northwest, about $50
O'Clock, and was soon afterward sent to
the Homeopathic Hospital. He formerly
lived in Frederick County, Maryland. and
lost his position with the Columbia Street
Railroad about two weeks ago
The following persons were reported to
the police as having been Frustrated by
yesterdays intense heat:
S. T. Carson. lis B Street, taken to
Emergency Hospital.
Albert Lambert, forty-two years of age.
letter carrier, overcome at his home,
1011 + Street northwest. Later removed
to Emergency Hospital.
John Webster, twenty-eight years old.
S23 Four-and-a-half Street southwest,
overcome near the corner of Tenth and
D Streets. Sent to Emergency Hospital.
Rose Fisher. colored. eighteen years of
age, prostrated by the heat on Tenth
Street northwest. Removed to Freed
mans Hospital.
r. l. Frye, thirty-three years old, liv-
ing at 63l X Street southwest. overcome
at Tenth and Pennsylvania Avenue north
west. Removed to Emergency Hospital.
Policeman John L. Buckmaster. of An
acostia, prostrated by the heat about 1:45
o clock yesterday afternoon while on duty
in Anacostia. He was taken TO the sub
station and given medical treatment and
then sent to his home. His condition is
not serious.
Policeman Bradley, of the Ninth pre-
cinct overcome by the heat about $50
o'clock p. IN. on his beat at Fifteenth and
II Streets northwest. Taken to his home,
6l9 y Street northeast
Jack OBrien, while held a prisoner in
cell at the Ninth precinct police sta
tion, last night was suddenly overcome
by the intense heat. He was removed TO
the Casualty Hospital by Patrolman
Mansfield, and after receiving treatment
was returned to the station.
The rains promised yesterday by the
Weather Bureau failed to materialize
No thunder showers came to relieve the
great suffering. There was not so much
as a temporary setback TO the tropical
temperature. In the business portion of
the city the heat was excessive. The
concrete pavements steamed, and per-
spiration streamed from the pores of all
Washingtonians who had to be about out
OF doors.
Ninety-dve degrees was not so high as
the mark already reached here within the
past week. Yet Washington fairly painted
with furnace blasts of suffocating air
The Weather Bureau reported last night
that the humidity had not been exces- !
sively high. only 66 degrees being regis |
tered. Fifty degrees is the normal
Though the storms so eagerly looked |
for did not come here, portions of Mary |
land and Virginia were relieved some |
what by slight showers. Washington was |
the only unfortunate point in the Atlantic /
States, the majority of other places being |
visited by rain. Though the rains were /
merely local, they brought at least tenn /
porary relief TO those cities 50 favored 1
For an hour, between and o'c clock yes
terday afternoon, Washington was the |
hottest city on the Atlantic seaboard
The Weather Bureau last night could |
make but slight promises of a change for |
the better Present conditions will pre-
vail for an indefinite period The only
prospect for cooler weather lies in local |
thunder storms, and these will relieve the |
should they occur. as the Weather Bu-
Teau believes viii be the case today, they
will have but slight effect, and gener- /
al thunder storm would not produce a
/
in the temperature. There is no relief in
sight. unless the high pressure now pre-
valent in the upper lake regions moves
in this direction.
Throughout the city yesterday the con-
sensus of opinion was that weather con-
ditions could not be much worse There
appeared To be a better understanding
among citizens generally, however in re-
gard to proper care in keeping out OF the
dangerous rays Of the sun. and to this
experience, acquired during the last |
seven days Of death-dealing heat, can
be attributed the fact that a greater
number of casualties did not occur dur
ing the day. Residents of the city are
also gradually becoming more accustomed
to the intense weather and are conse-
quently more able to stand the heat
Today will be repetition of yesterday
Unless the rains promised by the Wealth
er Bureau occur. conditions will undoubt-
edly be decidedly worse as the humidity
in the atmosphere Is increasing with each
day of the hot weather.
This morning begins the tenth day of |
the present hot weather The maximum
temperatures for the past week have
been as follows: Sunday, 9S: Monday 1O2;
Tuesday, 100; Wednesday. 9S; Thursday |
SO; Friday. %. At 8 o'clock last night |
the temperature had fallen from % de-
grees to So degrees. At 10 p. m the Their
mometer showed a ord-brealIing read-
ing for that hour Of 81 degrees. During
the night the temperature remained at
this point until the morning hours
THE BULLET EXTRACTED.