The sun., 1901-07-03
WORST DAY OF HEAT.
Citys Dead 223,, Hundreds More
Were Frustrated.
BRIEF RELIEF At EVENING.
Twill Be Bot Again To-day and
Cloudy, Weather Man Says.

Trame Crippled, Factories shut, Kindred
slsepins In Parks and % Pisrs Threwu
Open 70 the ssnoks The wAsis City sss.
ferins Unds Tie Hat sossrse-NaIimsn
rsmperstsrs YssssrAay Was %. With.
One Degree Of The RseorA-DswI After
Thunder Shower. bet % 70 ~ at Mid.
nisht aad the Hsmsdhy wss Rising.
The hottest day in New York. with one
exception. in thirty years, a brief break in
the evening but no prospect Of permanent
relief in sight-that u the news OF yesterday y
and the forecast for to-day As given by the
Weather Bureau
Yesterdays highest temperature was o.
degrees its lowest s2 At midnight II was
$50 The 80 degrees and the inoessant
breeze in the evening were the sum total OF
results that came from series Of sharp
thunderstorms beginning at AS O'Clock
yesterday afternoon and ending between 8
and o'clock in the evening.
On these storms. which everybody well
coined Us a deiyeranoe out OF the torments
81 what was little better than an inferno,
hopes were pinned that this was the begin
ming OF the end OF one Of the most dis as
trous affiictions OF heat New York has
ever known. Then at 1890 last evening
came the offlcial statement both from
the Washington and the local. Weather
Bureau that 40 far as a promise OF per-
manent relief Is concerned the storms
mean nothing that they are mere local and
transitory episodes and that we are TO
to swelter on indefinitely with the death
rate mounting higher.
Farmer Dunn. the former Weather Fore.
caster here. does not take quite so glowing
a view. however. and In this hot spell
Farmer Dunn has hitherto been right He
does not believe that We are TO get imme-
date relief following the thunderstorms,
but be does believe that they are the
break In the chain and that there will be a
gradual and perhaps slov change for the
better from hour to hour and day to day un-
til we can take up the threads OF life once
more where they were broken of by the ad
vent Of this era Of devastating weather.
LAST NI0HTs But LOCAL STORMS.
The bunch OF thunderstorms that hit
various parts of this neighborhood in the
afternoon were peculiar. One was visible
az the Navesink Highlands about Z o clock.
Then M 4:30 came one that scattered hail
downtown and on the Brooklyn Bridge and
left Manhattan uptown as dry as a bone,
After that every borough apparently had
its own storms. Park row got three storms
that were accompanied with the booming
and banging Of thunder all around the
heavens, rafting hailstones and water fill
ing the cutters and setting the hearts Of
tens OF thousands lesping for joy at the
prospect Of an end OF the torment
But after sending the thermometer
down l3 degrees and raising the humidity
In the atmosphere from 40 to IS. the nero
Ty began climbing up again until II
reached IS while in place OF the brilliant
moonlight Of Monday night. there was a
sky hung with low clouds that had no
hardness Of outline and gave no promise
Of anything better than mugg!ness.
HEATS yKARFuL DEATH LIST.
e Probably not less than $50 persons died
yesterday from the effects OF the heat,
The exact number reported TO the police
and the Coroner's Office at midnight last
night was 2Oo in Manhattan and The
Bronx: Al In Brooklyn. Probably fully
800 more were Rrostrated. The police
Of the DAYS Of torrid weather. coupled
with the effects OF the worst night
pie low by the score. They cola psed
In their homes. on the streets. In their Of
fees on trolley cars and at manual toll
The ambulances Of every hospital in the
city were kept constantly busy from early
morning until late in the evening
The Morgue became full OF unclaimed
dead Ambulance drivers and doctors as
well as the medical corps Of the hospitals
were so overworked that they too were
threatened with pros,ration The Cor
oners physicians. the Coroners and all
the force Of clerks at the Coroners office
were similarly swamped with the constant
calls that came upon them. The ambu-
lance service moreover was badly crippled
by the collapse and death Of the horses.
The situation seemed in q fair way to
he drifting into something very like an
appalling public calamity. Then came
the rain and with II little relief and now
IL remains TO be seen what to-day and to-
morrow will bring forth.
1T WILL BE WARM AND CLOUDY TO-DAY.
Continued warm and partly cloudy
weather for Wednesday and probably
for Thursday Ia the official prediction from
the Washington onioe OF the weather ser
vice. But the weather service Is very often
mistaken. The weather people were about
the only ones In the city yesterday who
did not see pending thunderstorms early
in the day. They predicted almost until the
thunder was booming in their ears that
there were no such storms in sight. They
may be equally far Mt sea os 10 what to-
DAYS and tomorrow weather will be.
II Ia cooler in the Northwest, orit was yes
terday, and cooler In the Lake region. People
who are not experts were reasoning yes
terday that the ordinary course Of weather
events should bring that coolness down
10 our region by not later than today.
The record Of 90 degrees at the Weather
Bureau up on the twentieth floor of the
American Surety Building. in Broadway,
was only q hint OF the kind of weather
New Workers. lived In down in the streets.
On building at the corner OF Eighth street
and University place q thermometer raCls-
tered 1903 degrees In the shade AT the
Eighteenth street station of the Third
avenue elevated railway, another tLor-
mometer registered i02 In the shade. In
a particularly favored place where there
was a breeze another thermometer on
a building near City Hall Park registered
i0l In the shade
LOW HUMIDITY KEPT DEATH LIST DOWN.
As ON Monday. the saving grace In YES