The Washington times., 1901-07-07
RAIN STOPS INTENSE HEAT
Welcome Relief Gained by a Four
Hour Thunderstorm.

No Assurance of Permanently Cooler
Wenther-Ntaety Degrees Expected
Again To-day Six Deaths Yester-
day. With Several ProstrntiOns
a thunderstorm-the first in many weeks
swept through Washington for four
hours yesterday afternoon, bringing long
looked-ror relief to the sweitering p1pula-
tion of the Capital. II broke the back
bone of the heated term through which
the city has passed during the last ten
days and forced the mercury down into
the bulb until, in q little less than two
hours, q fall Of twenty-seven degrees in
the temperature had been registered of
which there was a drop OF twenty degrees
i'm as many minutes.
The storm began at $40 o'clock, but
the relief brought came too late 70
save six lives kaufman Weinberg,
cighty-ouo years old. VINO lived at Ninth
an q Streets northwest. one of the oldest
residents of the District, died at the
Emergency Hospital at / o'clock yester-
day afternoon. Death was caused by sun
stroke.
benjamin F. Kirby, ffty-four years
old. cauvasser. who was overcome by
the heat shortly after o'clock yesterday
morning. died at the Homeopathic Hos
pital at O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
Kirby was stricken at his home, 44l II
Street northwest The Coroner has been
notified as were also the dead mans
relatives
David w How'd and Thomas O'Brien,
patients at the Government Insane Asy-
lum. died early yesterday morning from
the excessive heat. Both Of the deceased
were ex-soldiers Of the Union, and hailed
from the Soldiers Home Each was
over seventy years OF age.
Thomas 4 Donaghue. who kept a sa-
loon at 1893 North Capitol Street, sue
cumbed to the heat and died at an early
hour Yesterday morning He had been
complaining of the oppressive weather
and was visited by a physician,
who advised him to retire to his
room and rest. About $3.50 o'clock Mr..
Donaghue's sister-in-law heard him rap
ping on the floor, and going to his room
found him unconscious. The physician
was recalled, but NJ. Donaghue died
about an hour afterward. He leaves
wife and six children.
The body of a colored man, supposed to
be Littleton Jones, Of 1102 New Hamp-
shire Avenue northwest. was found on a
vacant lot at the corner Of Twentieth
and 3 Streets northwest, about I:30 o'clock
yesterday morning. He had died from
the effects of the heat The remains We're
removed to the morgue by Superintend-
ent Schoneberger. Jones was employed
by the Crawford Paving Company and
was last seen alive in the vicinity Of the
electric light plant at Fourteenth and 3
Streets northwest Friday night. when he
said that he was rot feeling well, and
was going home. His relatives have been
notified to call az the morgue to identify
the body and they are expected there this
afternoon.
Prominent among the prostrations re-
ported was that OF Cotter T. Bride well
known in Washington, and who has taken
a prominent part in local politics. He-was
seriously III yesterday at mis- residence,
Isl Street southeast. Mr.. Bride was
prostrated by the heat Friday night. Last
night his physician pronounced him to-be
out OF danger.
Only a few persons were reported 10
the police yesterday and last night as
having beer prostrated by the intense
heat. The only serious case reported
was that of William Healy-white-
twenty-eight years of age. who was
found in an unconscious condition near
the corner of Seventh and L Streets
northwest and removed to the Emergency
Hospital for treatment.
The surgeons found Healy's tempera-
ture to be III and that he was suffering
from a severe attack Of thermic fever.
he was given treatment at once, but
failed TO revive. and it is not thought
he will recover. Healy lives at 70 L
Street northwest, and is a bartender.
Owing to his serious condition the hos
pital officials have notified his family,
who reside in this city.
Anna Morgan, colored, twenty-eight
years Of age who lives at I713 Hayes
Court northwest, was prostrated by tie
heat at her henne and taken to the
En- -rgency Hospital for treatment.
Henry Lemoine, siXty-shc years of age,
who resides at 46S Pennsylvania Avenue
northwest. was brought TO the Emer-
sency Hospital for treatment last night,
he havirg become exhausted at his
home.
Benjamin Bolan, thirty-five years Of
age, was overcome by the heat yesterday
afternoon near the Baltimore and Ohio
depot The Sixth precinct patrol wagon
took BoIan to his home. 43 Bates Street
northwest, where a physician was sum
moned.
Until 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
Washington endured the most debilitating
heat Of the long and exhausting hot spell.
The atmosphere was charged with humid
fly, and distracted Washingtonians suf-
fered intensely from the excessive moist
ure in the air. No relief appeared in sight
until about 3:30 o'clock. when banks of
Clouds on the northwestern horizon gath !
cred force and broke over the city In an
electrical storm, which purified the atmos-
phere. and relieved the suffering.
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