The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-07-03
DEATHS TODAY.

Now York, July SIT was not as hot in
this city this morning as it was yesterday,
but the percentage of humidity was much
greater. At o'clock che weather bureau
thermometer showed a temperature of S5
degrees as compared with 80 at the same
time yesterday. The percentage of hu-
midity was 72. Yesterday morning 1t
was 50. From to 9 a. m. eleven deaths
due to heat were reported in New York
and Brooklyn.
At II o'clock the thermometer had risen
to the 80 mark, but the humidity had fall
en- to SO per cent The thermometer at Il
a. N. yesterday was SO degrees. Up to Ii
o'clock to-day the total number of deaths
from the heat in New York and Brooklyn
after a. m. was forty-seven. The action
of the board of governors of the stock
exchange in voting to close the exchange
on Friday and Saturday, and the decision
of the banks to restrict business all possi-
Bile on those days was due entirely to the
intense heat.
There were so many bodies in the
morgue to-day that the compartments
could not hold them all. Two dead wagons
and the police patrol wagons were bring
ing others constantly, and it was neces-
sary to send the remains of sixty persons
to the potters field before the expiration
of the five days usually allowed for iden-
tification or reclamation.
Since the extremely hot weather began
on June 28 there have been so many
he fba hot hoe
possible to keep a complete record of
them, but a careful estimate of them to-
day placed the total in the Greater New
York for the six days at SIT. All were
well defined cases of heat prostration.
The extreme heat was broken, at least
temporarily, in this city at 2:3O D. M,
when rain began to fall accompanied by
a thirty mile wind.
Philadelphia, July S.-A cool breeze from
the south tempered the heat slightly this
morning. but jump of 8 degrees in one
hour indicated another scorching day.
The minimum temperature during the
night was 81 degrees and at o'clock
to-day the weather bureau thermometer
registered that figure. At 9 O'Clock the
mercury had risen to SO, degrees
y
Up to 9 o'clock eleven deaths had oc-
CURED and the hospitals reported about
thirty eight prostrations. The total num-
Der of deaths from heat in this city since
the beginning of the present hot spell is
ninety-one.
At II o'clock the official weather bureau
thermometer registered 81 degrees, de-
crease of four degrees compared with the
n =
deaths and a score of Drostrations have
been reported. The humidity at o'clock
this morning was 81 per cent. At II O'Clock
it had decreased 3 Qer cent.
Up to 2 p. m. seventeen deaths and over
fifty prostrations had been reported. The
weather bureau thermometer registered
81, a decrease of 4, compared with the
same hour yesterday. The humidity had
fallen from 62 to Al per cent.
Baltimore, July 3.-Up to 8 o'clock this
morning thirty eight deaths from heat and
so cases of prostration due to the same
cause had been reported to the police in
this city during the present hot SPELL
Washington. July S-The mercury is
again climbing upward and at 9:45 O'Clock
this morning the official thermometer at
the weather bureau registered &C. a rise
of degrees since o'clock People in
this city gained a good nights rest last
night for the first time in several days
The weather bureau reiterated to-day its
announcement that there is no permanent
break in the hot spell in sight. Sixteen
deaths in the past six days have been
either directly or INDIRECTLY attributable
to the heat.
Boston. July S.-This city entered upon
Its seventh day Of oppressive heat with