The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-04
HUNDREDS SUCCUMB
Fearful Work Of Heat Wave In
Crowded Cil:ls of the North.
VICTIMS DROP ON EVERY HAND
Riisterina Rays Of Old Sol Send Mer
curry Skyward and Past Records
of Torridity Are Completely
Wiped Out.

record. at New York. at $40
D. m. the thermometer at the
weather office reached SO degrees,
one degree hotter than Sunday.
The records show that on only
two days in the last thirty years has
higher temperature been, reached.
These were July 9. 1875, and July 3,
1898. On these days the thermometer
reached 80 degrees.
The suffering in the city, partlcT''
Iarly in the crowded tenement house
district, was most intense. AS the day
grew the deaths and prostrations IN
creased, and, although provision was
made in all the hospitals for this
: emergency, the authorities were
scarcely able to cope with the great
tax made on their resources
Between 2 q. m. and midnight there
were reported fifty-seven deaths anu
141 prostrations in the boroughs OF
Manhattan and Bronx. For the pre-
vious twenty-four hours twenty-one
deaths and thirty-six prostrations had
been reported in Brooklyn.
II the heat was killing to mankind,
It was worse on the horses. They drop
ped right and left. At one time there
we're eight dead horses lying on Broad
way between Twenty-third and Forty
second streets. There were fourteen
horses prostrated in the vicinity OF
Madison Square alone.
The rush of the crowds to the parks
and to the nearby seashore resorts
Monday night was unprecedented ID
the history of the city.
At 2 o'clock Tuesday morning the
death record for the twenty-four hours
ending at that time in Greater New
York was eighty-seven; the prostra-
tions 1873. For the previous FIVE days.
covering the heated term, the total
deaths in the same territory were 1S6.
At Newark the mercury touched 100
at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. This
was the maximum. The reported
deaths were fourteen in and about
Newark.
At Philadelphia.
Philadelphia and vicinity experienced
the highest temperature recorded IN
( that city Monday, the government
thermometer on the top Of the post
ONCE building, 10 feet from the street,
registering 1o2 degrees even. At
Cramps shipyard the prostrations
were so numerous that the 5000 men
employed there were relieved from
further duty at noon. At Baldwin's To-
comotive works, the Midvale Steel
Works and numerous other places,
scores of heat sufferers had to quit.
Reports from all sections Of the state
show that the temperature was exceed
ingly high; in some places the record
was broken and in other places it was
equaled. Up to midnight fourteen
deaths were reported and upwards OF
100 persons were treated at hospitals
for heat exhaustion.
SpeH Broken at Cincinnati.
The spell of torrid heat which had
been in sway at Cincinnati during the
past week and which left death and
prostration in it's wake was broken
Monday evening by squall. The
storm came suddenly from the south
east. and for time the wind blew at
rate of sixty miles an hour. This
was followed by thunder shower, and
the thermometer dropped to Is. The
1imumftemperature during the day
was sc at the government station and
90 on the street. There were five
deaths from heat. This makes seven
teen deaths since the hot spell began.
There were numerous prostrations
during the day and about twelve are
now at the city hospital in serious
condition.
Fourteen Dead at Baltimore.
According to weather bureau re-
ports Baltimore was the hottest city
In the United States Monday. The
weather bureau thermometer recorded
80 degrees at a. M, and from that
hour Tue mSICuiS StCou1-y AA0oae0o
upward until 102 was reached at noon.
Up to midnight fourteen deaths and
twenty-eisht prostrations had been re-
ported.
Five at Chicago.
Five persons dropped dead on the
streets in Chicago Monday from heat,
and fifteen others were so badly over
come that they had to be removed to
hospitals. A number of prostrated are
In serious condition and may die. At
noon the temperature in the weather
bureau in the Auditorium tower was SO
and on the streets over 100. A severe
thunder storm at / o'clock brought
relief and the mercury dropped 20 de-
grees.