The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-12
COOLER AFTER A SMART RAIN
~ VILE GALE BLOWS OFF OUR
HOT BLANKET.
,,.,r NJ 20 Degrees I'm the Temperature
MANY Fatal Cases or Heat Prostra-
,,n--St. vincent's hospitals Record
If 10 Cases and HUT Dine Death.

Tho town cooled off yesterday afternoon
-s,,r a blazing morning. The silver pencil
e the thermometer, which had been writ
rerferyid odes to the sun, traced few
nhearsul lines in colder mood inspired by
"a / pluvils. the rumble of whose water
e.rt which might be mistaken for thunder
hy the unimaginative, was heard just be-
fore o'clock
An hour before that the temperature
Nod risen to IS degrees A blue-black wall
~ clouds in the north and west then began
n s,nd forth coolness to parched territory
,nIes beyond the Hudson and Harlem.
The first sprinkle of rain in lower Man
t,,tan was recorded by Forecaster Emery
n, olI o'clock, and the mercury fell two de-
orees, or to So
black squall hit the Battery end of the
town few minutes before 3 o'clock and
ON its heels came a torrent that lasted about
tventy minutes, sending the mercury rush
inc down the tube like car down an ele-
yator shaft From 40 degrees the tempera-
.ure aloft dropped to IS degrees. In the
five minutes beginning at PSF the official
wind gauge recorded SO miles minute
That was when the squat got in its wild
work The rainfall was IS of an inch.
The wind was erratic all day. In the
morning it was from the northwest; later
il shifted to southwest; during the storm
Il was mostly west; after the storm it was
north, northwest and, for time, north
east
The official prophets pointed with pride
70 the fultment of their prediction Of
Showers and thunderstorms and not so
warm" Even by the red-spirit thermome-
tiers that face the sun the temperature
at o'clock last night was II degrees. which
ia about Is degrees less than the same
thermometers recorded at the same time
on Friday.
While only nineteen cases OF heat pros
tration were reported by the police yester-
dav, or less than a third as many as on
Friday, the death of eleven persons was
ascribed to the heat. In Brooklyn there
we're eight fatal cases. This is the list OF
dead;
CARPENTER, II. W, SIS. of the Putnam House.
CoNLrN JAMES of 274 Pearl street.
DONOVAN JOHN. 80, of $50 Water street.
CALI, ANToINErTE. months. OF IS Sullivan
GREAsER. PHILIP. 40. of ais East Forty seventh
HALrcoNs. wINoNA. II months, of 2ls West
Twenty ninth street.
o'GRADT. MICHAEL, SIS, of 3l7 East Twenty first
street.
PoMpo, ANTONIO. months. OF % Cherry street
RoorH. ADDISON, IS. captain Of the canal boat
Nellie NJ Thirty first street and East River.
SHAW. CORNELIUS. months. of 2074 Second
avenue.
WnLEHMAN. HENRY. months. of 2o4 Fast
Seventy NTH street.
BROOKLYN.
CLIFFORD. ANNIE. 2. OF 81 Columbia street.
ELLIS, MAGGIE. 20. of lH Metropolitan avenue.
FLOYD. MARGARET, "a. ia Rodney street.
GLINNBN ANNIE. ~. Of 90 Hope street.
MAHoNRY, ELIzABKTH. 90. OF 3S3 Warren street.
McGRArH. THOMAS r.. CO. of 100 Forty third street.
SHEPPARD. JOHN. months, Of llsi Myrtle
avenue.
SWANSON EMMA 20. OF 1853 Sackett street.
Since the hot spell set in the doctors at
St. Vincent's Hospital have had seventy
six heat cases to treat and only one, Philip
Greaser OF $40 East Forty-seventh street,
died. He was found yesterday afternoon
delirious at Gansevoort and Hudson streets.
To accommodate the heat patients the
court yard of the hospital has been filed
with cots.
One remarkable case was that of John
Sandahan OF 672 East 128th- st rect, who
had been working in an engine room all
day Friday and was overcome at Four
teenth street and Sixth avenue. When
DR. CULVER got him to the hospital his
temperature was 1l2 degrees, the highest
point the medical thermometer registers.
Sandahan was kept in an ice bath for half
an hour and his temperature was reduced
10 l02. II was said last night that he would
probably recover.