Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-02
NO ABATEMENT
OF The HOT WAVE
Fifty-TwO Deaths in New York Since Mid
night Many ProstratiOns Everywhere
No Indications of Break.

Washington, July 2.-The weather
bureau has issued the following special
bulletin:
There are no present indications Of a
permanent break In the warm wave
which covers the country generally east
of the Rocky mountains. Local rains
and thunderstorms will furnish t.m-
porary relief In the lower lake region,
the upper Ohio valley, and IN the noun
tain districts Of Pennsylvania. Mary
land, West Virginia and Virginia. and
there Is a possibility that these local
rains may occur IN limited areas ia At
lantic coast states.
H. r. WILLIAMS,
Acting Chief
At $3.50 o'clock this morning the oni-
cial thermometer at the weather bureau
recorded 49, two degrees lower than Tor
the same time yesterday morning. The
night was insufferably hot. and even on
the heights there was scarcely a breath
OF air stirring. No heat prostratiOns
have been reported this morning.
MANY DEATHS IN NEW YORK.
New York. July AT II o'clock the
police department lists showed from
midnight 10 that time. total Of 81
deaths from the heat had been reported
In Greater New York. Nearly all the
dead We're adults The prostratlons
were so numerous that IL was impossi-
bic to keep a complete record OF them.
The weather bureau thermometer was
at the IS mark at 10 a. M six degrees
higher than at 10 o'clock yesterday
There was no breeze To add to the
suffering the humidity was 50 per cent
as compared with IS per cert yesterday.
In Brooklyn thirty sudden leaths We're
reported to the coroners Office between
midnight and a. m, and Of these
seventeen were directly due to the heat
So many horses have been killed or
disabled by the heat that deliveries Of
provisions and Zee were much retarded
today, thus adding TO the discomfort
and suffering
In the interior cities Of this state the
heat was generally but little abated
Deaths at Troy since the hot spell he
gan number six.
AT Buffalo the temperature was 70 De-
grees at 9 a. m.
PHILADELPHIA HOSPITALS
CROWDED.
Philadelphia, Pa, July 2.-The hot
weather continued today with undated
intensity The local forecaster SAYS
there are no indications OF immediate
relief, All records for July were
broken by the temperature this morn
ing. At II o'clock the government
thermometer on top OF the government
building registered 80 degrees. while
those on the street varied from 80 to
1872
Manufacturing establishments were
compelled to close. Cramps ship
yard began operations at o'clock this
morning and closed al noon Before
10 o'clock a dozen ambulance calls had
been sent from the plant, and many OF
the employees we've compelled TO leave
their work Work on building opera
lions was almost entirely suspended
today. Men were not allowed to 90
to the tops of buildings In course OF
erection, as IL was feared they would
be overcome and fall. Hospitals are
crowded with heat patients and IN
some cases the facilities are inadequate
for the treatment OF the sufferers ow-
ing TO lack OF tents
At ~ o'clock the official thermometer
recorded 100 degrees. one degree more
than at the same hour yesterday.
During the morning the Baldwin To-
connective works closed the iange ma
chine and hammer shops. The men in
the other departments were told they
could go home whenever they felt that
the heat was too oppressive. John and
James Dobson's big carpet mills also
closed down, 1900 employees being sent
home.
DEATHS IN PITTsBURG.
Pittsburg Pa, July Twelve deaths
and sixty pros,rations from the heat
were reported between midnight last
night and II o'clock this morning, max
ing the number OF fatalities forty In
twenty-f0ur hours. While last night
was not as close as the previous night.
thousands 'of persons In the tenement
districts slept I'm Railways or on the
stone steps brick pavements and even
in the street Many poor mothers sat
up all night watching their slumbering
children that harm might not come "a
them as they lay on the pavements,
At o'clock this morning the mercury
stood al rs. six degtees cooler than al
the same hour yesterday and az j,
O'Clock it had risen to Sc. The indica-
lions are for thunderstorms and lower
temperature tomorroT.
Nearly every mill and furnace not az
fected by the strike Is crippled from
the great number OF heat prostrations