The Washington times., 1901-07-02
HEATS HARVEST OF DEATH
Six People Fatally Stricken by
the Suns Fierce Rays.

Six persons dead and thirty-SiN pros
trated blythe heat is the official record Of
yesterday, the warmest day Washington
has ever experienced this early in any
season within the history Of the Weather
bureau, covering period Of thirty years.
The dead are:
CHARLES p. SCHOLL. white, 6l5 Street
northwest
JOHN FARRELL, white. forty-ive, 25l9 I Street
northwest
JOSEPH sEIPE. white, ffty-fve, sI8 Second
Street northeast.
KATE SILLERS. white, thirty-two, l2vj IWen-
ty-frst street northwest
LOUIS ASHTON. colored sixty years.
MoLLIE COATES. hve-months-old colored
child address unknown.
Esther Weston, white, forty-f-e. is un-
conscious at Garfield Hospital, and for
time it was thought she could not re-
cover She was found helpless in a va
cant lot at Fourteenth Street and Howard
Avenue.--
Those prostrated and treated at the
Emergency Hospital are:
Mary Thomas, colored, twenty-four, 2i26
Shows Court.
Dennis Trumby, colored twenty-six,
residence unknown.
John Renard, sixty-four, white, stran-
ger in town. fell Ninth and B northwest
Joseph Marshall, twcnty-nine. colored,
2l9 Four-and-a-Half Street southwest.
J. Hill. white, 219 ! Street northwest.
Richard Green, fifty. colored, 4S2 School
Street southwest.
Samuel Samaras, sixty, white. residence
not given.
James Fitzgerald. sixteen, white. resi-
denee not given.
Joseph Miller. twenty-seven, colored,
17ls n Street.
James Henry. white, 1914 Virginia Ave
nue southwest.
Jennie Harris seventeen, colored, Is
Becker Street northwest.
Mrs. Mollie Burnstein. thirty-five, white,
61S D Street northwest.
Columbus Caryey, white, residence not
given.
John Igvcar. ffty-six, white, 1214 E
Street southwest.
John Delaney. white, 3SO Virginia Ave
nue. southwest.
John Faromes, sixty, white, residence
not given
Charles Francis. 1s Seventh Street
northwest.
Nina Grierly, eight months old, SO
Ninth Street northwest Sent to Chill
dren's Hospital
Henry Jones, seventy-five, white, resi-
dence not given.
Levy Johnson. twenty-four, colored,
1887 Street northwest.
Mamie Thompson twenty, colored, 2107
Vermont Avenue northwest.
Clarence SchulIy, twenty-seven, white,
9I9 Virginia Avenue southwest; cCrdi-
tion serious: in ward
Matthew Hall, colored, twenty-one, $40
K Street southwest.
John Adams, twenty-seven, cOlored, sl7
Virginia Avenue southwest.
Henry Jones, forty-two, colored, 2IIl n
Street northwest.
Daniel Green, thirty-six, colored, 1873
Thirteenth Street northwest.
Treated at Casualty Hospital:
George Sturmer. twenty-seven, white,
engineer. home, Philadelphia
John Bayor. seventy, colored, z109
Eleventh Street northeast.
Mary Betters, fifty, coIored.
Alexander Forrest, sixty-one. colored.
F. ]. McCauley, white, 1903 Seventh
Street northwest.
Reuben Burke, forty-six, colored, sol |
Eighth Street northeast.
Bessie Taylor, white, 1913 Second Street |
northwest, treated at Providence Hospital. |
Unknown man treated at Providence
Hospital
Percy Turner. colored. twenty-seven,
residence unknown. treated at Georgetown
University Hospital.
James 3. Lockwood, white, fifty, S02 L
Street northwest. overcome on Bright
wood Avenue, near Pomeroy Street. taken
home by ambulance from Freedman's
Hospital
1t is considered that the number of cases
Of heat prostration which were treated
q: the homes Of the patients and not re-
ported TO the police or at the hospitals
viii foot up to about seventy.
Charles z Schou was acting chief
craftsman at the Agricultural Depart
ment. He left his Office at O'Clock yes
terday afternoon and started home. En-
route he stopped at Margran's tailor shop,
Sixth and d Streets northwest, and COM
plained Of feeling H. He went to the 1
home Of his uncle, 6l5 d Street. took a 1
cold plunge in the bathtub, and placed 4
Zee on his head. Said he felt very badly,
and thought he was going TO have typhoid 1
fever He sent for bottle Of paregoric.
took dose, and DR. Newman was called. /
The physician was unable TO render him
any assistance. and he died at $50 clock
Scholl was n member Of the Knights Of
Malta and Of the knights of Pythias He 1
was past grand commander of his lodge.
John Farrell was overcome by heat at
the gas works. He was hurried to the
Emergency Hospital His temperature Of /
10 was somewhat reduced under treat
ment, but he died at 10:50 O'Clock last
night.
Joseph Seipe, S13 Maryland Avenue north |
east. fell at Ninth and + Streets He /
was taken TO the Emergency Hospital /
where he died. He was also affected with |
tuberculosis.
Kate Sillers was found dead at her
home. 1906 Twenty-first Street. Physicians
called to attend her stated that she died
from heat DrOstration She was alone
when taken i'll and died before she could
be removed.
Louis Ashton had been working in
& ditch in the Southwest part of the
city, and suddenly was stricken by the |
intense heat. He was removed to his
home. 1121 Half Street southwest, |
between First and South Capitol |
Streets, where the ambulance was sum-
moned. DR.. Stewart. who responded 10
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