The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-20
HEAT CAUSES DEATHS
FOUR sUCCUMB IN NEW YORK,
 WITH MANY REGISTRATIONS.
Victims in Metropolis Were All Young ChildEen--areexe From Sea Re-s neved Humidity Alter Day
 of Torrid Tempera-

New York. June 19--Many prostra- tions and four deaths, the latter all of young children. accompanied the re- newal of yesterdays torrid tempera- ture, aggravated by a high degree of humidity in the early hours of today. At 12:30 ?. m.. the thermometer marked S8 degrees but soon atterward relief came in the form of a cool breeze from the sea, accompanied by rapid fall in temperature and humidity which continued steadily until tonight, when the air was almost too chilly for com fort.
 Showers and a change in the wind early today greatly reduced the tenn perature and excessive humidity from which greater New York sweltered throughout the Sabbath.
 Nowhere in the city was the suffer ing so intense as in the east side tene- ment section, where little preparation had been made for 1t. Ordinarily such days do not come until early in July. From hundreds of stuffy tenements thousands of children swarmed Into the streets, many of them half clad and others struggling to rid them selves of such fragments of winter garments as still clung to their little bodies. Mothers with haggard faces peered out of lofty windows and shrieked in vain for their little ones to come in. The police were constant ly called upon to quell infantile riots and scores of children were reported lost at nightfall.
 Nearly every household among the tenement dwellers has been called up- on to provide for one or more of the immigrants who swarmed Into the city last spring and most of these have nothing but heavy winter clothing. In places the curbs and doorsteps were lined with bearded men, exhausted and apparently suffering intense physical pain.
 Earlier than ever before it became necessary to throw open the parks to those who came there for the night. All day the small parks of the east side were thronged, but they furnished little respite from the heat until night came. Orders were Issued in all the down town precincts to leave the parks open during the night until the weather changed. Midnight found the benches and grass plots of Central Park and the breathing spots further north crowded with mothers and nurs- es with their babies. Extra details of police were sent out to all of these places.
 According to the general passenger agents for the big railroad systems en- tering New York city never in their | experience have so many families sought country homes for the summer i as this year. More than thirty thous- and families is a conservative esti- mate for the five boroughs of those who nave closed their homes and apart ments and become commuters for the | season. The railroad men say nearly all inouiries directed Lneir way are for small houses in the country near by with a -.ttle patch of ground under cultivation.
 The highest temperature reached today was registered at 12:30 ?. m., when the thermometer recorded SS, but a cooling breeze sprang up soon after ward and the temperature had dropped | to 79 at 2 D. m. The relative humidity was also greatly reduced at that hour.