New-York tribune., 1905-07-16
LONG HOT SPELL ENDS.
Cool Weather VII Continue-One
Death yesterday.

The backbone OF the heat wave broke yesterday,
bringing 10 close one OF the most severe hot
spells Ia years. The strong northwest winds
predicted by the local forecaster came IN abun-
dance. causing a remarka bic change in tempera-
ture and humidity. There were one one death and
ten Droetratlons and these virtually the
come OF the intense heat % the last week
Nine more deaths In Brooklyn were laid directly
O indirectly 20 the heat
The effect OF the cool wave from the northwest
felt in al parts Of the city. and more espe-
cisIly in tbs oongested districts Of the East and
West SIDES.
The day opened with a low temperature. the u1er-
curry being down So degrees. II kept below 80
degrees until Il O'Clock. and by had only
reached g. At 80 .. n. the official thermometer
recorded highest mark So degrees. but late last
tight "a had dropped 70 q.
According to the local forecaster, the weather
VIII continue cool Fresh to brisk northerly winds
are expected to-day.
The pleasure resorts about New-York felt the
eject Of the coolness Il has been hot that peo-
pie have had 10 ambition leave their homes
but yesterday they rushs daway. The Coney ISL
land boats packed. Down ct the Island
last night they said that il The biggest satur-
day nigh1 crowd Of the season The bathing
pavfnons were packed while on the streets II
difficult 70 move On SUrf-eye the trolley cars
could hardly force theiT way through the throngs-
This heated spell has reached such nigh
tenperatures as Others, but Il has been more con-
tlnuous and the high humidity has caused many
death ana intense suffering The deaths number
dfty-seven. while the prostrations reach nearly
Two hundred end hfty. Nine years ago
CURED one Of the worst heated periods In the his
tory OF The city II lasted eight days, and In that
time s25 deaths from the heat were recorded Il
1901 there was q stil worse period. From June IS
70 July 647 persons died from the heat There
was an exceedingly hoI period IN isO. but II lasted
only three days The time was long enough for
the heat kl sixty-egbt persons and 10 PROSTATE
over two hundred. which makes a total larger
than that for the last week
The heat OF the iset week resulted in suicide
yesterday. Miss Clara Watson. forty-six years old.
a servant took car boAe acid IN her room In the
home Of her nephew at No. 2o4 East 78th-st- She
was found unconscious by her nepheE's wife, and
5ieo soon sfterward,
The only other death caused by the heat was
that Of James Herman. forty years old, Of No G7
The prostrsuons reported yesterday were as fol-
5Ows:
CALLAHAN Dennis thirty-nve wears old No. III ist-
oysrcOns al Pier Q. East River Hudson Street
lsRy-si. overoome a. lie home: Lebanon Hospits
z. s6d E = zood % %sSS SEsESSi aos st
& no 4 yss5. Sa .ss e 4
ct. Harlem Hospital
An % ssfesssa;s o.I.s o'''0o' at sls.t and ss.v.
BROOKLYN
o9ercouas 10 cu1nbsr riauo st TsEea home
LEpEELEY Emma !wsaty-eiEh. MY . years old No So
BrooEIyn Hospital '''O-''
NORA 7RoHss s fRGtysE ysss of 0ysTeoms at his
geon and removed
ROsENsTEIN julius Lhrty-sys years old. No an Sack
MOauose sre1: 81 caIaertnes 4ospital ''--'-' anu
UnesHuhee Itai.Aa slgnosea 20 i've a, 70 81 Bartlett
81 Tsth"rH"F Hospital