Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-07-02
HOTTEST EVER KNOWN
AND GROWING WORSE.
JUMPED
DEGREES YEsTERDAY

THERMOMETER JUMPED
10 DEGREES STERDAY
The Local Story OF swsIter and sizzle -
Spreads Nearly All Over Ire Country
Fatalities Equal 10 Those Of Rig Bat
tis-Vioi~nt Electrical storms az Var,-
Gus pOints-PredtcttOns for To-day aud
Tomorrow.
The sixth day OF the hot spell. up.
precedented for severity and duration, is
row upon US. and growing worse. The
thermometer at noon to-day stood l0l
at Mr. w II ChilGs house, 10 degrees
hotter than yesterdry ana the highest
1t has ever been since he has Kept the
records. At other points in the village
1t is reported as high as I07 and los in
the shade, way beyond anything within
thermemrry of the Oldest inhabitaDt.
BY MriChilds' record. Friday showed
81 degrees, Saturday "a, Sunday SO.
yesterday 81 and to Gay l0l. WHAT has
made the strain worse, especially
Saturday, is the humidity which
has ranged from 80 to 20.
Heat prostrations are not so nnmer-
Gus as might be expected. because
people are sensiblv keeping in ont OF
AT the depot oal sheds this morning.
Peter Duprey. loghan. was found
by DR. + K Lynch. last evening, on Yer
non street, where he had lain all day suf-
fering from sunstroke. the second one
he had received within few days. lie
was taken to the hospital, and this morn.
ing he was fairly comfortable.
Friday, Peter Pellerin was overcome
at ] u Tatt's but laid off 10 season so
that he suffered only short time.
Merrill Adams, at work on the Slack
place, also suffered in the same way
temporarily. There are many similar
cases, but lone SERIOUS. so far as now
known. sxcept the deaths reported else.
where.
The area Of intense heat has extended
all over the country except the gulf
states, where it has been little cooler
than usual at this season. The losses of
life have been equal to those of good
sized battle. la New York the deaths
from sunstroke in the past three days,
up to yesterday, numbered 80 and the
eases Of prostration exteud up into the
hundreds. In Boston the deaths num-
Der II and the prostrations 100. In
the rest Of New England the deaths
reported lumber about 30, but small
of the real casualties. for
many of them have occurred on farms
and 10 rural districts where there is no
statistical engiueerv to get them re-
ported. For instance, the two or three
cases that have occurred here or in this
vicinity do not figure in ths above state
ment. Manchester. y II. alone
had four cases of fatal sunstroks sun
day.
Five dead and 24 other prostratious
from heat is the mortslity rcll yester-
day Of Boston.
The prediction for today and TO-
morrow is fair weather ana continuej
warm Light westerly wines.
4 good many queer cases are included !
in the given record, like that of the no
man at Pittsburg. Pa. who, crazed by |
the heat. smothered her 7-mOuths old |
baby and then deliberately walked sew
eral blocks and committed suicide by |
Iiay deaths at New York was that of the |
wife of Bishop Potter. In the militia
review before the Governor Of the |
r IIsI Gdut at I'll mass /
Friday, one man dropped from the ranks
wi til a severe case OF sunstroke, and |
hen the brigade had beed dismissed |
teat prostrations followed by the score.
and medical aid had to be summoned in |
nearly 50 cases.
At Bennington. Irwin Rose. who was |
on barn was sunstruck Satur- |
isy afternoon and is in critical condi |
tion.
The coluric has focused itself into a
good many violent storms of a local |
character. At Cabot, in this state. the |
worst thunder storm ever seen there |
ragged for two hours Friday night.
Two storms gathered Just above the
village ard broke simultaneously. max
ng a veritable cloud burst. a river of
water four feet deep ran through Main
street. The hay crop IN the vicinity
was ruined. The Ice house OF \ V Mel
son was swept away and is total loss.
md the total loss will reach many thous-
,nds of dollars.
The Cambridge Lumber company's
Mill in Cambridge was struck by light
ling and burned Friday night. The
Mill aud lumber were partially Insured
mt the total loss has not yet been de-
ermined.
Dover, y II, was struck By terrific
torn Saturday morning. A barn owned
~ Gestavous kestimann. on Prospect
treet, was struck by lightning and de-
troyed. together with a valuable horse.
The fire department was called to the
ire. and Wm p Hilliard. engineer of fire
ngine No 4, was prostrated with heat
hlle returning from the fire, aud died
hortlv after bsipg taken TO his home.
oseph Cole aud Tobias Cole were
brown from their buggy which was
truck by lightning while they were
irving outside the village during the ;
torn. The carriage was demolished,
ut the men and horse were not injured.
Quebec. Thursday, also had the worst
lectrical storm of her history, which ,
ecame later torrent Of hail stones. .
The barn belonging TO Geo c Carey, a ,
travelling man and large
laple sugar dealer. was struck. 1t con- {
aimed 81 head of cattle and was burned
, the ground. In attempting to rescue
le cattle two men had a narrow escape
rom serious injury.
The lightning also struck tree few
DDS distant from the barn under which
,ven of Mr. Carev's most valuable cattle
orth $1,000 were standing and all were
,stantly killed One of the animals
as Gladys, an imported COW, valued
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