The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-27
EXTREME HEAT Is FHTAL
NICHOLAS BRILL sUCCUMBs TO YES
TERDAY'S UNUSUAL TOR
RIDfTY
HOTTEST DAY IN SIX YEARS
Official Instruments Recorded a
Temperature of OF Degrees
Many ProstratiOns of Man
and Animals.

Yesterdays hot weather was the cause
of one death and several prostrations in
this city Nicholas Brill a carpenter,
who was working on r. E. Cobbs' COM
mission house, on Third street, was pros
trated at about $50 o'clock, and a half
hour later died. Brill was WORKING on the
roof and several times had complained
of feeling badly. Later he was noticed
acting rather strangely. He had a piece
of scantling in mis- hands and was drop
ping it down in the woodwork and draw
ing it up again. The foreman noticed
him, and going up to him, led him to a
shaded spot on the roof, where he sat
down Dr. GilfIlan was called, and he
at once ordered the man taken to the
city hospital. The ambulance was called,
but before it reached the place Brill had
expired. His remains were taken to the
county morgue. He was born in Ger
many and was flftX-two years old. Ten
years ago he came to this city, and for a
time engag ed i'll the commission busi--
ness. He is survived by a wife and young
son, who live at 313 Prescott street.
An unknown man was overcome by the
heat at Sixth street and Maria avenue at
noon. = He was driving lumber wagon.
and after resting about an hour was able
to continue his work. Several other
cases, where the names could not be
learned, were reported. A horse attached
u OIte VI the COplC > 1C6 COilA(dI1y
wagons fell at Dale and Edmund streets
yesterday afternoon. 1t was taken to the
company'S barns.
The extreme heat Of the past two days
has been a foretaste Internal for resi-
dents of ST Paul, and every one objects
but the ice man and DR.. Ohage. The lat
ter believes that the sweItering weather
has been a sort of divine Intervention,
just to show the Omaha spur shouters
how necessary the public baths are. Over
Geo sweating, nervous Saints were for
q time at least made comfortable by
plunging in the cooling water at the
baths.
There was a steady rise in mercury
from early in the morning. At noon the
official reading was g. and the sun show
ed no signs Of weakening. At the lunch
hour coats were scorned, and everything
on the restaurant fare bills that was as
sociatcd with that short sweet word-ice
was ordered, to the exclusion of all
dishes that come from the oven. But
protestations and tmprecations had no
effect on the despotic sun, and the tenn
perature steadily rose until Observer
Lyons shaded and elevated thermome-
On the streets it was at least 100, ard in
most Of the stores and Office buildings the
degree of heat registered was los.
So hot had the asphalt. become late in
the afternoon that the feet Of perspiring
citizens seemed to sink into burning tar.
The only possible consolation in the ner-
CHESS roasting was the reassuring state
nIept from the weather bureau that yes
terday was the hottest day of six sum
mers, exceeding the maximum tempera-
tufe OF last summer by one degree "A
breeze blew steadily all day long but 1t
was SO warm that it could scarcely be
felt. 1t will probably be several days be-
for the temperature will become normal.