The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-03
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DEATH YESTERDAY
Eighty-Seven Die in New
York and Brooklyn.
HUNDREDS FRUSTRATED
Fourteen Die in Baltimore, an Equa
Number in Philadelphia.
HOTTEST IRsf OF July ON RECORD
y R.Iief Promised the Northeastern Section
Under Foriy-Eight Hours. Baltimore the
Hottest City Yesterday. Some
High TEMPERATURES.
High Temperatures.
(By the Associated Press.)

New York, July To-day was the
hottest July list on record. At 3:19 p.
m. the thermometer at the Weather
Office reached SO degrees. The records
SHOW that in the thirty years preceding
OH only two days in all that period has
higher temperature been reached.
These were July 9th, 1876, and July 3rd,
1898 when the thermometer reached 80
degrees. The per centage of humidity
today was only As.
After $40 Il decline began until at
p. M the thermometer registered W.
AT o'clock this (Tuesday) morning,
the deaf hrecord for the twenty -four
hours ending at that time in greater
New York was 81; the prostrations ls3.
For the last five days, covering the pres
ent heated term the total deaths in the
same territory We're 1885,
There was so many ambulance calls
that the police were called on to sup
ply patrol wagons and every ambulance
did double duty in responding to calls.
MANY patients were carried to the hos
pitals in cabs and carriages and several
went TO bellevue and the Harlem hos
ptal in moving vans
Many thermometers registered 1OS at
$40 and all them over 100 on the street
level.
OVER A HUNDRED DEGREES.
Baltimore, Md, July 1.-The Weather
Bureau Thermometer here recorded 81
degrees at 8 H. m, and from that hour
the mercury steadily mounted upward
until 102 was reached at noon. Up to
midnight IA deaths and % prostrations
had ,Leerr repeated.
FOLLOW HEAT STORY htdh jnig
Philadelphia, Pa, July 1.-Philadel-
phia ard vicinity today experienced the
I highest temperature ever recorded in
thf!S cffy.tTie government thermometer
on the top Of the postoffice building,
40 feet from the street registering l02
degrees even. At Cramps shipyard the
prostrations We're so numerous that
the five thousand men employed there
were relieved from further duty al
noon.
Up to midnight fourteen deaths were
reported and upwards of one hundred
persons We're treated at hospitals for
heat exhaustion.
SOME HIGH TEMPERATURES.
Washington, July This afternoon
the Weather Bureau here recorded
temperature Of 10a degrees There
eyre fifty cases ct heat prostration
reported. and ten resulted fatally.
The present hot wave started in the
West, June 10th and today the Weather
Bureau officials report that high tenn
peraturcs are recorded in most sections
. east Of the Rocky mountains and many
! places west of them. Rains have fall
len i'm many places. BY tomorrow re-
lief is promised in the middle MISSISSIPPI
pi Valley, the lower Missouri Valley.
the upper lake region and by Wednes.
day in the Ohio Valley and possibly
the western part OF the lower lake reg
ion. For the next AS hours along the
>1rurtheastern coast the prospects favor
more hot weather.
Some of the high temperatures re-
: corded during the day by the Western
Bureau We're:
Atlanta. Ca, 90 degrees; Atlantic
City, so: Boston, 90; Chicago, 80; Gin
cinnati, So; Davenport Iowa, SO: Des-
Moines., Iowa, 90; Indianapolis, 50;
Jacksonville, Fla. "a; Kansas City,
Mo-, 100: Little Rock. Ark, 80: Mem
phis. Tenn. SO: New Orleans. co. New
York, 9S: Omaha, "a: Pittsburg, 9S:
Salt Lake, %: st. Louis, 100: ST. Paul,
30: Springfield. Ills, So; Vicksburg, 80.
- TORNADOES.
Des Mo;nes, Iowa, July 1.-Tornadoes
are reported near Holstein, Cambridge
and other Iowa points, but details are
! lacking. Communication with Cambridge
cannot be secured from here.
Eighteen died from the heat in Pitts
burg yesterday There were six deaths in
St Louis from heat
Five persons dropped dead on the
kfrnhts IN Chica 90 Yesterday from eXceS-