Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-07-02
HIGHER AND HIGHER
Temperature in Big Cities Destroy
ing Lives by Wholesale.
new YORK LEADS IN CASUALTIES
Pittsburg a Close Second-Other
Cities Sweitering.
LITTLE RELIEF IN SIGHT

NEW YORK, July AT s o'clock this
morning the temperature shown by the
weather bureau thermometer was IS de-
grees. At the same hour yesterday 1t was
81 degrees. On the street thermometers
registered "a at S o'clock. The air was al
most perfectly still this morning, and there
was no sign of breeze. To add to the suf
fering. the humidity 80 per cent as
compared with IS per cent yesterday.
Between . and am. fourteen adults
died of the heat on Manhattan Island. The
prOstrations were SO numerous that it was
impossible to keep a complete record of
them.
In the interior cities of this state the heat
was generally but little abated. At Troy
the temperature at S am. was IS degrees,
three degrees warmer than at the same
hour yesterday Deaths at Troy since the
hot spell began numbered six. At Roches-
ter at O'Clock the temperature was ~
degrees and the humidity 81. At Buffalo
the temperature was f6 degrees at 9 o'clock.
Six Degrees Hotter Than Yesterday.
The weather bureau thermometer was at
the % mark at 10 am. IN this cty-six de-
grees higher than at 10 o'clock yesterday.
So many horses have been killed or dis
abled by the heat that deliveries of pro-
visions and ice were much retarded today,
mus ddClng 10 the discomfort ana Su1erlnS.
In Brooklyn thirty sudden deaths were re-
ported TO the Coroner's office between mid
night and am. and of these, seventeen
were directly due 10 the heat.
At II O'Clock the police department lists
showed that from midnight TO that time
total of ffty-two deaths from the heat had
been reported in Greater New York.
Nearly all the dead were adults.
Prostrations In Pittsburg.
PITTSBURG Pa. July 2-Twelve deaths
civ r.
reported between midnight last night and
IL o'clock this morning. making the num-
Der of fatalities forty in twenty-four hours.
While last night was not close as the
previous night. thousands of persons in the
tenement districts slept in Railways on
stone steps and brick pavements
A walk up Webster avenue last night
was difficult. Not only the sidewalks but
even the roadway was full of people try
ing 10 sleep Many poor mothers sat up all
night watching their slumbering children,
that harm might not come to them "a they
lay on the pavements-
AT o'clock this morning the mercury
stood at IS, six degrees cooler than at the
same hour yesterday. and at II o'clock it
had risen to 81 The indications are for
thunder showers and lower temperature to-
morrow.
Fifty-two men were prostrated with the
heat while at work in finishing mills Nos.
. and 81 and open-hearth mill No. 3 of
the Homestead steel works during the
night. This morning the mills were com
PEELED TO close down on account of the heat
Moderate in Southwest.
ST. LOUIS, July 2.-There were many
prOstrations from heat during the night
but no additional deaths had been reported
up TO am, when the temperature was
So. There breeze and the heat
was extremely oppressive.
MIDDLEBORO' KY, July 2-Half a
dozen farm houses and many large barns
u~er 6zSr ,y-a6 t1Sr MI h.
great violence, which swept through Cum
berland Gap, in POwelrs valley. Several
persons are said to have been killed, but
only one name, that of Perry Smith has
been reported. Crops were badly damaged
CINCINNATI. July 2.-On1y one death
was reported during the night from heat
The temperature, which was lowered las,
night by a storm, got up to 81 the
street by $50 a m. today.
KANSAS CITY. July 2-At am the
mercury registered 81. three degrees above
that of the same hour yesterday. The air
was calm, and 1t appeared likely that yes
terday's record OF 80 degrees would be
broken
No prostrations have occurred in the past
twenty-fOur hours.
LOUISVILLE. July AT s IN. the tenn
perature here was ~. with the humidity
high Indications are that yesterdays
maximum Will be PCssed. No fatal prostra-
tons were reported during the night
though suffering among children is intense
and probably viii result in many deaths.
Men Quit Work in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA. July 2-The hot
weather continued ,oday with unabated in
tenstty. The temperature at S o'clock was
81 degrees. degrees higher than at the
same hour yesterday. The minimum tenn
perature during the night was So degrees
al 4 O'Clock this morning. The local fore
cast official says there are no indica atoms
OF immediate relief. Since 1:30 o'clock
this morning twelve deaths and about fifty
prOstrations have been reported.
This IS the largest number of deaths and
prostratOns that have occurred in any one
day Of the present hot spell All records
this morning
At II o'clock the government thermom-
eter on Top Of the post office building reg
istered % degrees while those on the street
varied from 80 to IO2 Sixteen deaths had
occurred and over 100 prostrations had
been reported up to that time.
Factories Compelled to Close.
Manufacturing establishments in all Sec
tions Of the city were compelled to close.
Cramps ship yard began operations at 4
O'Clock this morning and closed at noon.
Before 10 o'clock dozen ambulance calls
had been sent from the plant and many of
the employees were compelled to leave their
work.
The Pencoyd iron works was one of the
first of the big plants TO shut down. Work
suspended today Men Were not allowed TO
go to the tops OF buildings in course of
erection, as il was feared they would be
overcome and fall TO their death.
Hospitals all over the city are crowded
with heat patients. and in some cases the
facilities are inadequate for the treatment
of the sufferers. owing to lack of tents
At u O'Clock the official Thermometer re-
corded 9N degrees. one degree less than at
the same hour yesterday
During the morning the Baldwin locomo-
tive works closed three departments-the
fanSe. machine and hammer shops. The
men in the other departments were told
that they could go home whenever they
felt that the heat was too oppressive John
and James DObsons big carpet mills also
closed down. the /. 200 employees being sent
hone.
No Relief I'm Baltimore.
BALTIMORE. July 2--This city Is today
again sweltering under intense heat condi-