The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-07-19
HEAT VICTIMS.
Two Infants Perish in Their Mo:
TIERS Arms in Street.
TWENTY ONE DEATHS.

The Passengers on Crowded Elevated
Train See Victim Fall in the Car
and Die. Over Fifty Prostra.
tions in One Day.
According to the New York Ameri
can Monday of last week in that city
was day Of terrible, overpowing heat
which rolled up an appalling list OF
dead and prostrated, was checked and
tempered only for time in the after
noon by violent storm, which food
ed cellars, sewers and Subway, and
left trail OF disaster and ruin in its
wake. At night it was again intoler-
ably hot. Nineteen persons, most OF
them children, were killed by the
suns merciless rays and sitting hu-
midity. Scores Of others were over
come, and at midnight new cases were
still being reported.
First it was the extremely high
temperature which assailed the city
almost at break OF day. At 6 a. N.
76 degrees, and from that time on the
mercury kept climbing steadily. The
climax came at 2 p. NJ, when 80 was
reached. But it was the extraordinary
degree OF humidity which caused most
of the distress. At a. m. the densi-
ty Of the air registered the very high
mark of 80. Relief came in the after
noon when the heavy rainstorm sent
the mercury tumbling l6 degrees in
less than an houe. The rainfall IN
that time was 1.20 inches.
Lightning also came along with the
rain and struck the City Hall flag
staE in Brooklyn, cutting a spiral
ribbon from it. The bolt tore the
flag to pieces, fuug down the eagle
surmounting it shocked fifty persons
in the building, besides cutting out
the electric switch board and sx5in-
gushing all Of the lights.
The rain came so suddenly and In
such binding volumes that the streets
were speedily converted into running
streams. For the first time in a good
many days lower Manhatten received
good, refreshing drenching.
At elm and Centre streets the
heavy on rush OF waters swept back
from the clogged sewers and filed the
adjoining cellars. The back waters
swept down the streets and over the
side walks, and within fifteen minutes
there was two feet Of water in the
basement OF the Criminal Courts
Building. For a time it seemed as II
the engine room would be swamped
and the elevators shut down.
At the South Ferry terminal OF tia
Subway the water poured over the
curbing and down the entrances in
Niagara like volumes. The sudden
cessation of the rain alone saved seri-
Gus trouble. AS it was, 1t took the
pumps over an hour to clear the tube.
But the worst phase OF the storm de-
veloped at Elm and Duane streets
where fifteen men were entombed in
the collapse OF an excavation under
mined by the heavy rainfall.
In New jersey and various other
sections of outlying and adjoining
suburbs lightning struck in several
places, but no one was killed. At
Ellis Island two belts struck the ad-
ministration building and the last one
tore out ten feet Of the roof, besides
demolishing the skylights.
Yet, despite this disastrous effect,
the storm was welcomed as few storms
have been welcomed this summer.
The excursionists who had left New
York on Saturday and Sunday apd
had congratulated themselves on the
manner in which they had escaped
the heat, came back only to find con-
ditiens worse than those from which
they fed.
The suffering, OF course, was the
keenest on the crowded East Side. It
always is. Yesterday the sidewalks
were packed with suffering, painting
men, women and children, in all states
OF dress and undress, trying to find
relief, that was not to be found. 1t
was to these sections that the ambu-
lances were kept going most frequent
! ", and 1t was from the ranks OF the
suffering East Siders that death and
the hospitals gained their largest list
Of recruits. The deadly rapidity with
which babies succumbed was heart
rending.
Two infants died in the arms OF
their mothers before the seriousness OF
their condition was realized. Another
baby died in the carriage in front Of
the door, where it had been tempora,
rily left standing. In almost every
instance the end came so swiftly that
parents had little or NO warning.
| Whereas the children predominateo
ir the list Of fatal cases, the grown.
ups practically. comprise the entire
roll Of prostrations. Brooklyn su1er'
ed equally with Manhattan, and in
both boroughs ambulances were kept
busy taking the stricken ones to the
hospitals. The majority OF those
overcome in Manhatten went to the
Hudson Street Hospital. There
almost every cot was filed before
night, and several physicians them
selves narrowly escaped falling eX
nausted from their exertions. Heat
victims tell unconscious on the streets
in the Subway and Oh the elevated
trains.
John Falvy, formerly foreman O
Fire Department Truck No. "a, 10
Gated on East One Hundred an:
Twenty Fifth street died in a Thir(
avenue elevated train. Mr.. FalVy
who weighed over two hundred pound
; ; had given his seat to an aged Wonal
,o1 a fou roopnontc later he fell fl