Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-04
Weather Bureau at Washing
ton Issues a Very Dis
couraging Bulletin.
DEATH LIST APPALLING
Majority Directly Attributed to the In
tensely Warm Observation-Disclosures
Killed by Heat During the Night
Greatly Augmented. 49,

ta,
Washington, July 2.-The weather
bureau has issued the following:
There are no present indications of
a permanent break in the warm wave
which covers generally the territory
east of the Rockies. Local rains and
thunder storms will furnish temporary
relief in the lower lake region, upper
Ohio valley, mountain districts of
Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virgin
la, Virginia, and limited area on the
Atlantic coast states.
While local showers, cloudy skies
and cooler winds has somewhat de-
creased the temperature at many
points during the night, most of the
reports this morning show the mer-
curry to be but two to three degrees
lower than the same time yesterday.
The percentage of humidity has in
creased and all indications today are
that it will be another scorcher.
Dedtn LlSt ApPdiiiH9s
The appalling list of deaths and
prostrations reported yesterday We're
increased during the night, many
deaths occurring and being attributed
directly to the extreme heat.
Temperature at 8 O'Clock.
At O'Clock this morning among
the highest temperatures were the fol
lowing: Pittsburg, rs; twelve deaths
and sixty prostrations since midnight.
Many mills have suspended owing to
the number of prostrations among EN-.
ployes.
Philadelphia 81; twelve deaths and
fifty prostrations since midnight
Throughout the state thermometers
range from 80 to 102.
Boston "a, New Haven 80, Lynn
Mass, Newport, R. L., New Bedford
Fall River, Springfield, Mass, and
Concord, N. H., from "a to 80. Louis
vile 70. st. Louis SO, with numerous
{ prostrations. Kansas City 81. ST
Paul 81. Detroit rs, with one death
Cleveland rs, Cincinnati "a, with one
death. Washington So, Chicago So
Omaha, ~.
Over Half Hundred Die.
New York, July 2.-The weathe
bureau thermometer was at the 81
mark at II O'Clock, 6 degrees highe
than yesterday The police depart
ment lists showed from midnight t.
that time a total of 90 deaths from
heat had been reported in Greater Ney
York. Nearly all the dead are adults
Many horses have been killed or dis
abled by the heat and deliveries O
provisions and ice are much retarde
n today thus adding to the discomfor
and suffering. Prostrations are so nj
Vaerous it is impossible to keep con
i1ete record of them. In interior cite
oil this state the heat is generally Blu
little abated.
At o'clock the total number c
deaths in Greater New York We're 81,
tytWo. Business everywhere in tow
Is much decreased by heat.
Shortly after / o'clock the j. HOOD
wright hospital sent out a notice tina
1t mesuld be unable to respond to an
more ambulance calls today as all tn
hospital horses are disabled and other
are not obtainable.
Yesterdays highest temperature, 8
at 8 p. M, was equalled today at
northwest at rate of six miles pc
hour,
There were eight deaths caused b
the heat in Jersey City between mil
night and noon. All the foundries
Jersey City have been forced to ban
their fires on account of the heat.
The Clark thread mills and I'll otht
factories and foundries in Harriso
Kearney, Arlington, Newark, Paterso
Passaic and New Brunswick hay
closed. Vegetation is suffering grea
ly in all parts of New Jersey.
Sixteen Die in Philadelphia.
n, Philadelphia, July AT II o'clot
the government thermometer req
"A tered 95 degrees, those on the sire
III, varied from SO to 102. Sixteen dealt
n had occurred and over one hundr,
IA prostrations have been reporte
iii Manufacturing establishments in s
H sections were compelled to close.
Twelve Fatalities in Pittsburs.
Pittsburg, July 2-Twelve deaf
X and sixty prostrations from the he
j were reported between midnight al
II o'clock this morning, making t
n number of fatalities forty in twent
~ four hours.
Mills Close.
Fifty-two men were Frustrated wi
the heat while at work in the finis
ing mills of the Homestead Ste
works during the night. This morni
u the mills were compelled to clio
down on account of the heat.
ThIrty.Three Stricken In st. Louis
i st. Louis, July Thirty-three p
Sons, larger number than was tire