Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-19
Terrible Suffering and Many
Fatalities Reported From
the Large Cities Today
PARTIAL RELIEF IN SIGHT
A Storm Broke Over New York This
Afternoon, Causing Fall in tho Tom.
perature- Nineteen Deaths There
This Mornins-Fourteen in Chicago
UP to 2 O'clock Today.

temperature of yesterday and
Monday continued In Washington
today. but much lower humidity
and a stirring breeze offered con-
siderable relief. At eight the tenn
perature recorded at the wealth.
er bureau was SO degrees and Is
rising rapidly. The heated term
continues, with little or no abate-
ment in any quarter. Along the
lower lakes, in Iowa, northern Illi-
nois and southern Wisconsin there
have been a few early morning
thunder storms, but the tempera-
ture has not been materially low
cred. except In Iowa and southern
Minnesota. The greatest Intensity
of the heated term centers In the
Ohio valley and north portion of
the middle Atlantic states. 1t is
probable the prevailing high tenn
perature will be temporarily in-
terrupted by Friday.
New York, July 19-No relief, bu,
rather the promise of more heat and
greater suffering came to New York
today. Even with every park in the
city thrown wide open and with prac-
tically every restriction removed,
hundreds of thousands have been un-
able to escape severest suffering. Yes
terday, with nearly two score of deaths
and ten times as many serious heat
officially reported. taxed
The facilities o., every hospital and
like institution in the city, ambulance
surgeons, drivers and horses, worn
down by the terrible heat and strain ol
[ncessant work, were completely ex-
hausted. The horses gave out earlier
than the men and comparatively early
1t became necessary to press police pa
troll wagons into service as temporary
Then the hospitals be-
came filled to their capacity and sew
eral were forced to announce no mort
sufferers could be received. While
thousands Of persons left their homes
In flats and tenents, seeking the public
parks for relief from the nights in
tense heat. by far the greatest crowd
gathered on the sandy seashore at Con-
ey Island. Trains arriving there even
after midnight were crowded and II
was estimated that an army of 10000
heat tortured men, women and child
rem made their beds in the sand. A
northwest breeze blew over the island
bringing much comfort to the swelter-
ing thousands. A large force of extra
policemen were kept on duty and
guarded the sleepers from harm. But
there were thousands of tenement
dwellers who could not leave thetl
homes in the parched and sweltering
lower sections of the city. 1t was
from that district the first reports OF
deaths due to heat came today. Be-
fore o'clock this morning five IA
taiities had been reported. Two VIC
Tins fell from windows where they
were sleeping. Others died directly
from heat exhaustion. In Brooklyn a
heat crazed mother plunged a carving
knife into her sleeping nineteen
months old child, killing it instantly
and then made an unsuccessful at
tempt to take her own life.
Official figures given out by the
government weather bureau today
show that the thermometer stood at 7e
at 6 o'clock this morning, having fallen
an average of one degree an hour dur
ing the night. From that time on, il
began to rise, reaching "a at o'clock
Seventeen deaths were reported dur
ing the forenoon. At II o'clock the
was 81.
New York, July 19.-This afternoon
a heavy rainstorm, accompanied by d
high wind, broke over the city, and the
is falling rapidly.
Cooling showers are reported from
portions of New York state, Pennsyl-
vania, Maine, New Hampshire and
Vermont, bringing temporary relief, at
east, to sweltering humanity.
One Death at Cleveland.
Cleveland July 19.-Three prostra-
lions and one death from heat have
-, ,o,artad during the ra st tMentY- :