Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-19
Yesterdays Intense Hot Wave
Continued Today.
MANY REGISTRATIONS
GREAT SUFFERING IN TENEMENT
DISTRICTS IN CITIES.
People Flocked to the Parks and
Beaches for Relief-Hard
on the Horses.

on the Horses.
BOSTON, July 19-From all over New
England today came reports Of record
breaking heat Boston at IL o'clock had a
temperature official instruments of 30
degrees. This was one degree higher than
yesterday at the same hour Rhode Island
cities We're from three to FIVE degrees warm
er than yesterday, Pawtucket reporting %
degrees at 1880 o'clock. Vermont and New
Hampshire also announced higher tempera-
lures than yesterday. while Portland re-
ported record of SO at 10 O'clock which
was the highest for that hour ever noted
by the Portland weather bureau.
No Relief for New York.
NEW YORK, July 19.-No relief but
rather promise of more intense heat and
even greater suffering came to New York
today. Even with every park in the city
thrown wide open and with practically
every restriction removed, hundreds of
thousands have been unable to escape the
severest suffering. Yesterday, with nearly
two score deaths and ten times as many
serious heat prostrations officially reported.
taxed the facilities of every hospital and
like institution in the city.
Ambulance surgeons, drivers and horses,
worn down by the terrible heat and the
strain of incessant work, were completely
exhausted.
The horses gave out earlier than the men
and comparatively early it became neces-
sary to press police patrol wagons into
service as Temporary ambulances. Then
the hospitals became filled to their capacity
and several were forced to announce that
no more sufferers could be received
The death roll due to the excessive heat
increased rapidly today. seventeen deaths
being reported during the forenoon.
At O'Clock the weather bureau reported
the temperature to be 81 degrees.
Tenement Dwellers Suffer.
Although many thousand tenement dwell
lers availed themselves of the opportunity
given by the open parks to sleep In the outer
air, there were many more who could not
leave their homes in the parched and swell
tering lower section of the city. 1t was
from that section that the first reports
OF death due to the heat came today. Be
fore am. five fatalities had been reported.
Two of the victims fell from windows
where they had been sleeping. The others
died directly from heat exhaustion. In
Brooklyn a heat-crazed mother plunged
carving knife into her sleeping nineteen
months old child killing 1t instantly, and
then made an unsuccessful attempt 10 take
her own life.
Official figures given out by the govern
ment weather bureau today show that the
lowest temperature recorded during the last
tWenty-f four hours was at o O'Clock this
morning. The government thermometer
stood at T6 at that hour, having fallen on
an average of one degree an hour during
the night. From that time on however. 1t
began to rise. reaching 81 at o o'clock
Hot Throughout Night at Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA July 19.-Torrid wealth
er prevails again today in this city and VI
cinity The intense heat continued through
out the night, and at o'clock this morn
ing the government thermometer registered
S. degrees, the same figures recorded at y
O clock yesterday morning.
At o'clock the government thermometer
had reached 30 degrees, a rise of degrees
in one hour, and at 10 O'Clock 92 degrees
was the record.
Intense Heat at Boston.
BOSTON, July 19-Another day of In
tense heat was in prospect in this city to-
day when the residents woke after a night
which had brought little relief. Scarcely
breath of air stirred during the night. and
the lowest point registered by the official
thermometer was rs at 4 am. At o'clock
IL had risen TO SO. The humidity was 81,
and the wind, which was from the north
west, was very light.
Three Deaths at New Haven.
NEW HAVEN. Conn, July 19.--Three
deaths and eight cases of prostration from
the heat were reported from Connecticut
IN the twenty four hours up to s am. to-
day.
A slight relief from the prevailing heat
was afforded New Haven this morning by a
f.fteen-mile breeze from the northwest.
Otherwise the conditions were practically
the same as on yesterday The official
temperature at 0 O'Clock was so degrees,
and the humidity 80 per cent.
Two sudden deaths from heart disease.
superinduced by the excessive heat, were
reported during the morning, one in Bris-
tol and one in Southington.
Foundries and factories in many places
IN Connecticut were shut down today on
account of the hot weather.
The temperature In this city at noon was
93 In Hartford at the same hour Il was 80.
Warmest in Three Years in Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, Md, July 19.-The ex-
tremely hot weather continues here. though
the thermometer Is not so high as yester-
day. reaching SO degrees at am. and 81
at 10 am. Last night was the warmest
night in Baltimore for the past three years.
Thousands of persons spent the night on
their doorsteps, being unable to sleep in
| day no additional prostrations have been
reported.
Unabated Heat at Pittsburg.
| PITTSBURG, Pa, July 19.-The hot
| wave, which has had Pittsburg in Its grasp
| for forty-eight hours, is undated. At IL
I o'clock today the mercury registered So
| degrees and rising slowly This is three
| degrees lower than yesterday but the
| greater humidity has increased the suffer
| Ing. One death and three prostrations were
reported.
One Victim at Norfolk.
! Special Dispatch to The Star
| NORFOLK, Va, July 19.--Norfolk and
| southeastern Virginia is today having the
| hottest weather of the present summer.
| The temperature at noon was much higher
| than 1t was the same hour yesterday, and
| there have been many serious heat prostra-
| tIons, Robert L. Orr, plumbing Inspector
| of Norfolk. being one of today's victims.
| There has been one DEATH There Is not