The Washington times., 1901-07-30
MANY HEAT REGISTRATIONS
Eleven Persons Succumb to tie
Excessive Warmth.
Yesterday One of the Most Unendur-
able Days of the season-This the
Hottest City on the Atlantic Sea-
board-ShOwers Predicted Today.

board-shOwers Predicted To-day
Washington endured one of the hottest
days of the season yesterday, and, with
the exception OF the hot weather of early
| July one of the hottest days for some
| years. The temperature took a sudden
upward jump of seven degrees over Sun
| day. and. augmented by an extraordinar-
| lily high degree Of humidity, rendered life
| almost unendurable. Many cases of heat
prostration were reported during the day
and up until late last night, when con-
| ditions had not improved to any consid-
| cradle extent. the total number OF pros
| trations had reached eleven.
| At the Emergency Hospital yesterday
and last night the ply sicians had busy
time. All the patients are reported as
doing quite well. The cases treated were
| as follows:
| Robert Jett was picked up during the
| afternoon at Ninth Street and Pennsyl-
| vania Avenue northwest. He felt sud
| den dizziness and was overcome before
| he realized just what had happened. A
policeman sent him to the hospital in the
ambulance. Jett. who is thirty-six years
| OF age. lives at 2435 N Street northwest
Reuben Burke, of sol II Street south
| west. who says he is a laborer, suffered
greatly from the rays of the sun while
walking on Executive Avenue about
o'clock. When he was overcome he was
| sent to the hospital In the ambulance.
| Burke is forty-one years old.
Cutler Green, colored, a sweeper en-
ployed at the City Postoffice, found the
heat unbearable shortly before o'clock.
He had worked hard during the day, but
was overcome on the portico of the post
office building. The First precinct police
sent him to the hospital in the ambulance.
Green lives at . Gessford Court south
east He is twenty-four years old
William Bryan of 1894 Nineteenth Street
northwest fell at Seventeenth and n
Streets northwest. The Third precinct
police found him and he was removed to
the hospital for treatment. 1t was found
that Bryan had suffered much from the
heat
Thomas Fitzsimmons, who lives at l
Grant Place northwest, was another pa
tient at the hospital because of the heat.
He was overcome near his home, after
his return from the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, where he is employed.
Benjamin Mack, negro, aged twenty
years, was found in a stupor last night
about 6 o'clock in the grounds of the Agri-
him OF a bench and sent him to the his
pital in the patrol wagon. Mack lives at
III Shepherd Court northwest
Theodore Williams, colored, aged sew
enty years, was overcome by the heat be-
fore nightfall yesterday. He has a home
at 207 Third Street southwest The Fourth
precinct police had him removed to the
hospital in the patrol wagon.
! Re ian in III
old, of 1921 Eleventh Street northwest,
laborer, found the heat too much to. stand
at Ninth and F Street northwest yester-
day. He fell down, and was picked up
by the police and sent to the hospital in
the ambulance.
Felix Hixon, aged twenty-three years,
is laborer, and yesterday he seems to
have worked too long in the broiling sun.
At any rate, he was overcome near his
home, 1923 Half Street southwest. The
police called the ambulance, and he was
taken to the hospital.
G.. r. Cole, unknown to the police, stag
gered about Sixth Street and Pennsyl
Yania Avenue northwest, yesterday until
he was overcome by the heat He was re-
moved IN a hurry to the hospital The
physicians say his condition was due
solely to the heat.
Nora Taylor applied al the hospital last
night for treatment She said she suf-
fered much from the heat. She gave her
address as 302 G Street northwest.
Charles c. Doggett, a motorman on the
Metropolitan Railway, was overcome by
ner of Fourteenth and East Capitol
Streets northeast, shortly after IL O'Clock
yesterday morning. He was removed TO
the Washington Asylum Hospital in the
Ninth precinct patrol wagon.
About $50 p. IN. yesterday Joseph Tom
linson. twenty-eight years old. an em-
pIoye at the ice plant of the Heurich
Brewing Compansi was taken suddenly
h.zsat
removed to his home. 723 Twenty-third
Street northwt st. ir a carriage.
High temperatures characterized the en-
tire day. The morning was scarcely an
hour old before II was realized that the
mercury was once more rising. At mid
night Sunday the thermometer stood at 81
degrees, and because of the humidity the
suffering was. while not unendura BILE, very
ing the mercury had dropped to 16. the
lowest point reached during the twenty
four hours, and by o'clock. with a
fierce sun shining. II had risen degrees
and gave strong indications of soaring to
much greater attitudes.
The omen was good one, and at 10
o'clock In the morning coatless Washing
ton was going about It's usual occupations
with haggard faces with the thermometer
at 80 degrees at the Weather Bureau. on
the Avenue and in the business portions OF
the city the heat was much more intense,
and 100 degrees was reached between the
scorching heat from above and the stored
up torridity from the asphalt pavements.
Though July of last year was one of
the hottest in the history of Washington,
vet the thermometer yesterday was IA de
grees higher. at the maximum reading.
than for the same day twelve months ago.
Scarcely cloud in the sky served to
temper the burning rays of the sun and
a breeze was not felt at any time. The
lay was one of the most eNhausting which
the city has ever experienced and loud
walls of complaint arose from every side
as the day wore on and no showers came
to break the heat.
Washington was the hottest city on the
Atlantic Seaboard yesterday. New York
and the New England cities
were cool by comparis on. The highest
official point reached on the Weather Bu-
reau thermometer during the day was 81
degrees at = o clock in the afternoon.
The following are the temperatures for |
the day: Midnight. So; , a. m, SO; 4 a. |
m. rs; 6 a. IN, 76. s a. m, 81; 10 a. M. 80; |
Y noon, SO: p. m, g.: p. m. 81; p. m, |
g6: 6 u. m, %; p. n, SO; 10 p m, ~. Max |
Imum 81. minimum 76.
Showers are predicted for today with |
cooler weather.