Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-11
HOT WAVE IN NEW YORK
Ten Deaths from the Heat in the Tenement
Districts.
RANSToRM BRINGS QUICK RELIEF
Downpour Attains the Dimensions of
CIoudburst and Floods
streets TO Level of
Sidewalk.

NEW YORK July 1o-Ten deaths and
more than two score cases Of prostration
resulted from the continuance today of
the wave OF intense heat which reached
this city on Saturday A grateful breeze
from the sea served in a measure to temper
the torrd temperature and excessive hu-
midity, but the suffering especially in the
swarming tenement house quarters, was
intense and throughout the day the ambu-
lances were kept busy removing sunstruck
patients to the various hospitals.
At l o'clock the thermometer registered
50 degrees, two degrees higher than yester-
day, and remained at this point until 3
o'clock, when a heavy thunderstorm with
a deluge Of rain descended on Brooklyn.
the lower part Of Manhattan and suburban
towns in New Jersey. The storm brought
a startling fall in the mercury, which
dropped eighteen degrees in half an hour
! effectually breaking the hot wave. This
evening the cool breeze continued with
every prospect that It would hold during
! the night.
Many streets Flooded.
The rainstorm almost attained the pro-
portions OF a cloudburst in the lower sec
tion Of Manhattan, and within ten minutes
many Of the down town streets were flooded
to the level of the sidewalks.
Broad street in the vicinity Of the Stock
exchange was rendered impossible and
! the brokers on the Curb" were compelled
| to hasten the close of the market and fly
before the current.
a torrent rushing down Broadway, White
! hall street and State street poured into
| the new subway station at South Ferry,
| flooding the tracks nearly to the level of
the third rail. and for a time threatening
to interrupt traffic by short circuiting the
current. The rain ceased within half an
| hour when the flood in the streets rapidly
1 subsided.
| During the height Of the storm the ad-
! ministration building on Ellis island, where
/ there were 1000 immigrants, was struck
| twice by lightning, but sustained only
! trining damage.
six Deaths I'm New England.
| BOSTON July 1O-The crest of the most
| intense heat wave of the season passed
over New England today, leaving behind
many victims. Up to O'Clock tonight six
deaths from the heat had been reported
from New England points, while there were
probably ten times as many prostrations,
some of which may result fatally.
As on yesterday, BOSTON was the hottest
place in New England, the thermometer
reaching a9 at o'clock From that time
had dropped twenty degrees.
Hot weather Abroad.
! Telegrams from projects of provinces 70
| the Italian minister of the interior an
nounce a great number of fatalities due to
the heat, according to a Rome dispatch. In
the province OF Alexandria, Piedmont, there
were siXty-eight cases of sunstroke and
! twelve deaths. At Palermo, in Sicily
! twenty-eight sunstrokes and five Deaths
at Messna, twelve sunstrokes and two
deaths and at Bari, eight sunstrokes and
two deaths.
A Berlin dispatch states that the record
breaking heat is paralyzing all branches OF
trade. The schools are all closed and 200, 0OC
persons left the city for cool summer re.
sorts.
Seven Deaths in PIttsburE.
PITTSBURG, July l0.-The intense heat
was responsible during the last twenty
four hours for seven deaths, two of then
caused directly by the high temperatur,
a..I the others by drowning. the result Of
inexperienced swimmers seeking relief IL
the rivers. A large number of prostra
tions are also reported During a storm
which reduced the temperature materially
in the district this evening, John Huffman
of Sewickley, was killed by lightning.