The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-02


EVA CAREY, seven weeks.
Infant male child Of Michael DEM
onik-
JOHN RAGY, zs-
MRS. NANCY MERCER SO.
ANN MLAUGHLIN, aged S.
LOUIS RENGI, infant
LOUIS KERSABIER, aged SIS.
JOHN HEIDISH, aged A.
JOHN METZ aged As.
SAMUEL M'GINNIS, aged 46.
MRS. MARY POyLAK
JOHN CARR.
WILLIAM ANDERSON.
THOMAS ALBERT. infant.
CHARLES ELLIOTT, infant
JOHN NICHLAUS, aged 80.
MARTIN GULLICK.
CHARLES WEICK. aged %.
JOHN AUGUSTINE. committed sui
eide while insane from the heat
JOHN SHIPKA, aged 81.
Nearly every mill and furnace not
affected by the strike, IS crippled from
thed great number Of heat prostrations
of the employees, and many mills have
been forced to entirely suspend opera
tions.
While last night was not as close az
the previous night, thousands of per-
sons in the tenement districts slept in
Railways or stone steps, brick pave
ments, and even in the streets. Many
poor mothers sat up all night watching
their slumbering children that harm
might not come to them as they lay on
the pavements-
At 8 O'Clock this morning the mercury
stood at 78s 8 degrees cooler than at the
same hour yesterday. and at IL o'clock
it had risen to Sc. The indications are
perature tomorrow.
Fifty-two men were prostrated with
the heat while at work in the finishing
mills Nos % and 80 and open hearth
mill No. 3, of the Homestead Steel works
during the night This morning the
mills were compelled to shut down on
account of the heat
CHICAGO.
Chicago, July Notwithstanding the
storm which diminished the heat some-
what last evening and made the night
more bearable, the thermometers ON
the street at S a. m. registered Sc de-
grees, only two degrees lower than at
the same hour yesterday The heat
wave is not vet broken and from pres
ent indications it is uncertain when it
will be Forecaster Walz said:
1T will be cloudy today and there
may be showers. If the sun is kept out
of sight all day the heat may be en-
dured in spite Of the humidity. but if
the sun gets out. the day will be a.
scorching one
AT 10 a. m. the temperature was IS.
while the humidity was high John
Leidler, a lawyer, was overcome by the
heat and was taken to the hospital in
an unconscious condition.
KANSAS CITY.
Ad11SdS City u lily AT g, CLOCK TINS
morning the weather bureau thermom-
eter registered 84. three degrees above
that of the same hour yesterday Hard
" any breeze was stirring and there
was no immediate prospect of rain,
making 1T very likely that the day
would prove the hottest of the season
thus far Yesterdays record was SO
degrees, the hottest first OF July ever
experienced here Notwithstanding the
extreme condition Of the weather there
City in the last "a hours.
At u o'clock the thermometer regis
tered SO, against "a degrees at the same
time yesterday. No prostrations re-
the south making the conditions more
tOlerable- An inch Of rain fell last night
over northern Kansas.
PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia. July 2--The hot weather
continued today with unahated inten- =
sity- The temperature at o'clock was
81 degrees, 5 degrees higher than at the
same hour yesterday. The minimum
temperature during the night was S5
degrees at 4 o'clock this morning. The
local forecast official says there are no
indications OF immediate relief Since
1.3O clock this morning twelve deaths
and about fifty prostrations have been
reported.
This is the largest number of deaths
and prostrations that have occurred
IN any one day of the present hot
spell All records for July were broken
by the temperature this morning.
At Il o'clock the government ther-
mometer on top of the postof6ce build
ing registered 95 degrees while those on
the street carried from SO to 9q1A. Six
teen deaths had occurred and over 100
prostratlons had been reported up to
that time.
Manufacturing establishments in all
sections OF the city were compelled to
close Cramps ship yard began opera
uonS at 4 O'Clock this morning and
closed at noon. Before 10 o'clock a
dozen ambulance calls had been sent
ployes Were compelled to leave their
work The Bencoyd Iron Works We're
one of the first of the big plants to shut
down. Work on building operations
Men We're not allowed to so to the tops
OF buildings in course Of erection as it
was feared they would be overcome and
fall to their deaths Hospitals all over
the city are crowded with heat patients
ana III some cases the facilities are in
adequate for the trea tTnent of the suf-
tererS owing to lack Of tents.
At ~ o'clock the official therInon eter
recorded 100 degrees, one degree more
than at the same hour yesterday
During the morning the Baldwin 10
connective works closed three depart
mentS. the fange, machine and hammer
shops The men in the other depart
ments were told that they could 20
nome whenever they felt that the heat
was 100 oppressive John and James
Dobson's big carpet mills also closed
down, the 1,200 employees being sent
home.
At D. m. the weather bureau ther-
mometer registered 1O115 one and one
half degrees hotter than 1T the same
hour yesterday. On the street the regis
ter was 105 to los. So far today tWen-
ty-hve deaths from heat have been re
ported and hundreds of prostratiOn
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