New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-26
SIX DIE FROM HEAT.
TWO COMMIT SUICIDE.
Humidity Helps in Frustrating a
Mann .S1ceIterers.

humidity
suicide yesterday two men succeeding. and one
woman failing in her design because of the new
law which prohibits the sale of carbolic acid in
full strength The two men dead wealthy
French silk manufacturer, who shot himself.
and fireman OF a Sound boat, who jumped
overheard.
Four other deaths caused directly by the heat
We're reported, the victims being infants But
more than two babies died from the heat, for on
the East Side and the other tenement house
districts the sun took heavy toll Of infant lives
Babies already weakened by the continued hot
spell fell easy victims to childish ailments, their
condition aggravated by malnutrition and lack
of proper attention one child in Brooklyn was
placed at a window that she might get some
air and was fatally injured by a fall to the
ground.
THE DEATHS.
GALLAGHER Hugh. hfty-fve. 'longshoreman. No. 464
West 18th street. died in bed at home
GRosFELp. Mary. six months No % Lewis street
sAI.TIKOFF Blaiini five months. No Division street
SINCE beat E so,t Nd fF al y3 aoe Imperial
lansba1s: dropped dead Metropolitan and Flush
WADE: Daniel. fireman. Portland Me; crazed by heat
REGISTRATIONS.
Rroolyn ,;4S overeone at streets,
Brooklyn, home,
BoNEN. Miss Olga, TWENTY-FIVE No. IS West 2eh
street; Fourth avenue and sd street
BROWN. Jennie, thirty-nne. crazed by No 74e
Columbus avenue; attempted suicide. j Hood Wright
ENAY samuel 81 No 60 Allen street stricken in Temp
kins Square Park, Bellevue
EVERAN Kesv t dd No 90 Attorney stree T
pltai
HAT B,60, william 5hGty No Harrison avenue venue:
street Brooklyn. Sent home
HoweTy, and Broo'ne unconscious Bellevue
1EHMaNN Wolf thr,yay No 2S7 snsdssE avenue
Kings County Hospital
NCRP 5n 9ssDe So No 20 227S . TTd
oBRIEN. Thomas. torty-seven. address unknown:
grooGgs af S., maT 999 6sp aSs ana o
osTERMAN. Mrs. Parepa. thirty eight No. 554 West
i55th street Hood wTeht Hospital
PETERsAN CAPTAIN Louis 81 on
Eastern S' District f Hospa Io''' "a street -00
ROsENZwEIG, Alexander. twenty-three. No 80 East
COUNTY Hospital fIG''0''' ii Prospect
WALSH. Patrick. thtrty-hve. No III crimmins ave;
i8Sth street Lincoln Hospital
n Long is9nd cosEs hospital sPt5a
The highest official temperature was SO de-
grees at 10 o'clock in the morning, but that was
registered a thermometer high above the
narrow downtown canyons filled with thousands
of sweltering men and women. breathing the
many times inhaled and baked air which hung
motionless between the tall buildings.
Crazed by the heat. Daniel Wade. fireman
employed the North and East River Trans
portation freight boat City Of Stamford. jumped
from the boat when it passing North
Brother Island. bound for New York. He was
drowned. Wade had been the boat four
days. His home in Portland, Me. He
seen coming out Of the boiler room when the
boat off North Brother Island. and heard to
complain of the heat. He not missed until
steam began to fail. and then the engineers
found that he the boat.
Adam Trunk. driver. dropped dead while at
work at Metropolitan and Flushing avenues
williamsburg and Hugh Gallagher, a longshore-
man, died in bed at his home from the effects Of
the heat
III and Respondent for long time, the heat so
depressed Jennie Brown. of No. 74s Colura bus
avenue, that she took four ounces OF carbolic
acid in an attempt 10 commit suicide. The new
law does not allow the stuff to be sold sufficient
ly strong to death. and all that she sue
ceeded in doing to burn her throat mouth
and stomach in a most painful but not danger
manner
An infant, Edna Smalley, two years old, was
fatally injured by a fall from an open window
near which she had been placed because OF the
heat Dr. Norton, Of the Norwegian Hospital
cared for her at her home. No. 6O29 Sth street
brooklyn but she will die her skull was badly
fractured by her fall OF two stories
Such relief may be afforded by slight
showers and cloudy weather ID promised for to-
day, but the light southwest winds coming from
across heated country VIII bring little COM
Tort with them on Saturday. however when
the winds are expected 10 switch around 10 the
northwest. there may be drop In the tempera-
lure sufficient to make il cool and comfortable