New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-04
HEAT DEATHS CONTINUE.
DESPITE COOLER DAY.
Eighteen Pr0StrationS - Thunder
storms for the Fourth.

II the forecaster OF the Weather Bureau read
the signs OF the sky correctly last night, the
small boy to-day. about the time his supply Of
fireworks gives out will find himself deluged
with the customary Fourth Of July thunder
showers. On Sunday the weather will be fair
and warmer. with variable winds.
There were six deaths from the heat in this
city yesterday. and eighteen prostrations. The
day characterized by a low percentage Of
humidity and lower temperature. This
coupled with the fact that the wind was from
the northwest instead of the southwest, on
the previous hot days. made the high tempera
ture more bearable and less enervating. That
the number of deaths was less than on pre-
vious days was probably due to the effects of
ihe two preceding hot days. That the day
less enervatng evident from the reduced
number of prostrations. The maximum tenn
perature IS degrees at 3 p. m. The light
thunder shower early in the evening caused the
mercury TO drop fifteen degrees. The deaths
and prostrations were as follows:
DEATHS
BROWN. E. z. seventy years old Of No. 716 Greene
S heat at Eighth AND % b9ndred
sxth-st. at 1870 o'clock removed 10 J. Hood Wright
CARR. James. five months old died his home No e23
DUNN. Beatrice six morths old died in her home.
bscame y ia r oa of Of No No. ESQ ESQ VEST
Tyenty-ffth7 st, and died after being taken to the
s3s East onehundred ftaS
&AE LEI Francis ten months old Of No 1874 West
On steamer for The Childs Hospital on Ra9dais Isl
and; died before the boat reached the island.
REGISTRATIONS.
cARNEY David sixteen years old; of No 4oS East FIT
removed to Bellevue Bellevue Hospital
CLIFFORD Alfred ye years n %d S N9 9 sixth fe
moved to Flower Hospital
fox Christopher thrty-four years old. OF No 234 West
ay! Te%oTed to Se%SoF HOSPITAL
FOLEY Joseph No 974 Myrt . Brooklyn rocky eyer
ern District Hospital
GOLDEN william 9ortyfoSr old Of No e san n
West Fiftesn cent Femoyed to %ew-York Hospital
sss e. S n 5
ave- taken to Be1I ISli Hospital
MORAN Edward. siHty-fOur years old Of No 324 East
TWenty-siXth-st.; at Third-ave. and Tween
ty-sixth-st-: taken Bellevue Hospital in a dying
JOHNSON John Of Baltic and HOyt sts BrooElyp: oyer
'McARREN. Charles, Of No 927 Kent-ave BROOKLYN
sn to s Street f4f o5p that borough
csrroii-sf. Brooklyn; attended home
@ oo M @ at the 0a of E sG 2 2
Gouverneur Hospital
F7EARDoN Mrs Jane. nfty-hve years old. Of No. 800
felEey-st. Brooklyn; Frustrated at Brooklyn Bridge
g Hooper South SITS, borough;
taken TO Eastern District Hospital
sEGEPPI Joseph twentyfou- years old Of No 3o4 West
Seventh-ave.; the New-York Hospital.
SHERMAN Thomas, No. 1850 Third-ave. Brooklyn:
overcome al Thrd-aye. and Bergen-st- taken to
Seney Hospital.
WALSH. James. No. 455 Tenry-st Brooklyn; overcome
ct No 46S Sixteenth-st that borough; taken to
Seney Hospital
wAL I2I5 John Of No 22e Easrst B5ooRyn:
ough- taken TO ST GATHERINGS Hospital.
Tt evident early in the forenoon that
some mysterious element had entered the at
mosphere and tempered the heat. The air was
crystalline in clarity, and there life in it.
A breeze from the northwest stirred the leaves
and cooled the barred head While the tempera-
ture rose to IS degrees at 3 p. m, the heat was
felt far less than the previous two days.
The change in the atmosphere was due to the
rorthwes- breeze. This is always more favora-
ble for comfort warm day than one from
the southwest. such as prevailed the previ-
two days. The percentage OF humidity
averaged ten points lower throughout the day.
zhe maximum being "A per cent at m. and
the minimum. As, at 3 p. m.
The temperature climbed regularly from "A
at a. m. 10 the maximum. At a. IN. the
temperature 76; at u m, 81; at p. m,
81; 8 p. m. IS; p m, a. The shower. which
began fall at 6:40 p. m, caused a drop of
rs degrees When the shower began the tenn
1oerature was Sc degrees. Within a few min
two hours it had fallen TO IL The rainfall was
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