New-York tribune., 1905-07-11

The depressing heat which prevailed in the
city Yesterday, causing deaths and prostrations'
was modified only short time by the severe
storm which broke at PIP p m Since day
break the thermometer had been gradually ris-
ing and it reached it's maximum. 30 degrees AT
D. M The first peal of thunder was followed
by record breaking rainfall Of 296 inches'
and lasted until 4:2S p m.
The local forecaster said that the amount OF
water which fell between 3:35 p. m. and S4I
p. m. was phenomenal for this city. In tha'
period of minutes / 1-5 inches OF rain 1ell'
which was at the rate of 1-5 inches an hour.
The thermometer dropped to 60 degrees at
D. M. but crept back quickly to so degrees
toward evening. The wind which blew at thirty
five miles an hour shifted to all points of the
compass when the rain ceased, but later swung
around to the south.
In addition to killing several persons and pros
trating many. the heat played havoc with ami
mails throughout the city. Many horses fell
under their loads, and the various relief sta
tions of the horse car lines had more than the
regular complement of horses on hand Extra
men were put on to bathe the horses with cold
water as they came out of harness Many cats
and dogs not subjected TO any physical exertion
died under the extreme heat and overwhelming
humidity 1t was said at the West 47tl4-st. po
lice station that sixty cats and dogs perished
Sunday night and early yesterday morning.
Mrs. Mary Turner. of No 51T West 47th-st.,
known throughout the precinct as the dumb
animals friend, started round OF the pre-
cinct shortly after midnight with big basket.
accompanied by PatroIman Lynch. When they
returned to the station house there were twelve
sick or disabled cats in the basket. These Mrs.
Turner sent to the cat hospital of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty TO Animals
The heat also caused several dogs to go mad
terrier bit Miss Lillian Matthews. thirty-three
years old of No 463 Robbins-ave.. The Bronx
on the left wrist at her home yesterday. A po-
licemar of the Alexanderave station shot the
animal Patro;man Mailman. of the West
20th-st station shot rabid dog in West 24th-
ST early in the dav
One of the peculiar features of the storm. in
which it resembIed the recent hurricane in Har-
lem. was the fact that it ragged in certain spots
with terrific force while in places not a mile
away there was no rair. A veritahle deluge
poured at 23d-st at 3 q. m At the same time
there was not a drop of rain to be seen in
Wall-st. or at 140th-st.
When the heat was at its height yesterday.
Albert Kaseick. lOngshoreman, became af-
fected by the humidity and plunged into the
North River from Pier 50 along which he had
been walking He was rescued by another
who jumped in after him.
Kaseick who is nineteen years old. and lives
at No 342 East 39th-st., was taken in an un-
conscious condition TO Bellevue Hospital
Traffic throughout the shopping districts OF
the city was blocked yesterday during the down
pour. The cabmen We're greatly in demand, and
II was impossible to supply cabs for all the
shoppers marooned i'm the stores along 23d-st
and 6th-ave A rough estimate made Yoster-
day of the amount of business done by the va
rious cabmen at the time of the storm showed
that their individual profits equalled one half OF
a regular weeks business A cabman in frcnt
of the Waldorf-Astoria said that more persons
arrived and left the hotel in cabs in the two
hours of the downpour than in any other period
Of two hours.
The flood downtown was too much Cor sewers
to carry off quickly In many places, where there
was not sufficient grade to carry the water along
the curb to the sewer. the flood washed up over
the sidewalk in great waves and poured down
into cellars.
The sewer on the easterly side of EIm-st be-
came choked early in the storm. There is
dead end of the sewer at the subway. and the
sewer soon overfowed at the culvert at White
and Elm SITS. The water rose rapidly. and in a
short time there nearly two feet OF il on
Film and White SITS Fire Engine No. 81 sta
toned in White-st., went out in the storm TO
respond TO an accident In the neighborhOod. and
barely got through the water without having its
fires extinguished.
Tenants OF the houses In which cellars We're
Hooded threaten to bring suit against the city
to recover the losses they sustained. Henry
Knabe. a saloonkeepeT at the corner Of Centre
and White SITS. estimates the water damage to
the stock in his cellar at $4,000.
The water backed up in the Coroner's Office on
the ground floor of the Criminal Courts Build
Ing and did considerable damage. II also forced
It's way into the engine-roOm and extinguished
some OF the fires.
a fox terrier belonging To Deputy Sheriff Me
Fadden was lost for two hours In a cellar at No.
ilS Whte-st. He found later swimming In
three feet of water.
The rain poured down into the unfinished por-
Ions of the subway below Wall-st. yesterday
and left great pools at the bottom or the stair
Nays leading 10 the street. At the Battery loop