New-York tribune., 1901-07-01
DEADLY HEAT CONTINUES.
| NINETEEN FATAL CASES IN AND NEAR
THE CITY.
FORECAST FOR TO-DAY PROMISES MORE
OF THE SAME CONDITIONS-CROWDS
FLEE TO THE BEACHES.

FLEE TO THE BEACHES.
Fatalities continue with the prolongation Of
the heated spell Yesterday there were nineteen
deaths which We're directly attributable to the
heat and twenty-five prostrations. The fatal
cases are:
Fny No I RrSswaS OLD Bo In In the the
Williamsburg Hospital.
COLE Mrs Elizabeth. hfty-two years old. of No ls7
FARRELL. John. fifty years No. 400 West Thirty
John @ y s @ old death Gt Sq fo 40
sss 6sat in jersey city this Year
HEM MARY seventy-one years old. of No. East Six
KENNEDY. Margaret hfty-hve years old of No. 1877
KENNEDY Robert. htty-hve years old of No 400 East
Twenty second-st-
wgem old asa Gf Sq % n! S' hdn na
.ss7sts ssfA strqke. srpernducrd by heat.
KRArTER John. sxtyfou- years old of No 81 Second
LEE Thomas thirty-six years old, Of No $40 West
ThF'y-eiehth-'t died at Roosevelt n Hospital spit
st died at No. 527 Hudson-st.
LEWIS Mrs Jessie seventy-three old OF No Al
Rodney-st.. BROOKLYN.
MORAN John. twenty-one years old. of No. $50 West
Mu11l:N Charles thirty-two years old No 44o West
oNEr1L, Patrick tsenty-seven years old. of No 2'o
o'BRIHN -, three months old. OF No. 4os East
PrALEN James nfty-th years old. home; died in
Bellevue Hospital
QUINN sarah for,y-two years old. a domestic. Of No
isl Columbia
dred and sixteenth-st: died in Harlem Hospital
Manhattan Islanders moved out of town yes
terday. That Is. al who could went away to
escape the extreme heat that made the entire
city from the Battery to the Bronx, like fur
mace Those who went out of town returned to
say that they did rot think the day had been
especially hot but those who were not fortunate
enough to be able to escape were certain that
there had been no hotter time in the town since
the summer began. The latter were correct.
The mercury caught up to the so mark soon
'sfter O'Clock in the morning. and did not re-
turn to ii until late in the night At noon it
was IS degrees, at 3 o'clock 1t 93 degrees,
and at o'clock the high mark for the season
81 degrees-was attained. This the hot
test day since June q, 1899. when the same
mark was registered. No June has had a
higher temperature since the local Weather
Bureau was established. in 1871. Had the
humidity been higher the heat would have
been less bearable, but it dropped from IS de-
grees at s o'clock in the morning to the low
ffties, where Il remained until the evening.
when it began to go up again.
The official forecast is for fair weather to-day.
with continued high temperature light to fresh
south winds
The people began to leave the city in crowds
early in the morning. All day long at the bridge
the throng waiting for dense as that
which awaits the same vehicles on a week day
evening when the Brooklynites returning
from their labors in Manhattan. All the steam
boats. and, in fact. every conveyance that would
take the people from the city, carried record
crowds and the various places where New
Workers go to cool off. enjoy themselves and
spend their money were thronged. Coney Island
had the biggest day of the season The thou
sands that went there from New-York alone
would make crowd larger than any the island
had had this season. and when are added to that
those who went from Brooklyn and other places
the immense number can be guessed at.
Nearly hundred craft of all kinds left the
city with passengers for seaside resorts. The
thousands of people that focked from the city
seemed to prefer a trip by water, and conse-
quently every kind of boat pressed into
service to accommodate the crowds.
In the city not breath of air was stirring to
relieve the steady beat of the heat waves.
Noticeable In contrast with Saturday was the
absence of the dead horses that dotted the
streets lying where they fell when they sue
cumhed to the heat. The drives in the parks
were comparatively clear. 1t being too hot for
riders and drivers to venture forth. The Speed
way was absolutely deserted. as owners of fast
horses were unwilling to risk their animals out
in such sun. Uptown drives such Seventh
ave. presented stretch of surface from which
the air rose in quivering waves of heat. over
which no merciful man would drive horse for
the pleasure he himself might derive from the
ride
The heat area has moved northward. and the
lake region is having of the same kind OF
we ather that has afflicted this city. Maine is
warmer than 1t has been before in long time.
with 90 degrees in Portland and Sc degrees in
Eastoni. Chicago had 96 degrees. but Philadel-
ph.a, Kansas CITY and Washington were two de-
gHees hotter. st. Louis was the hottest place