New-York tribune., 1907-07-19
SCORES FALL IN HEAT
FIVE TICTIlHS DEAD
Hottest Day Of Year Keeps Ambu-
la'lceS and Surgeons on Ran.

wednesday the neat OF yesterday took high tol!
:n New York. More than a score and a half Of
prostratiGns kept the ambulance surgeons OF
the hospitals busy, and half dozen deaths were
reported. Among the cases of prostration and
sunstroke in the hospitals three or four are not
expected TO live
Outside Of congested Manhattan prostrations
were not SO common. but to-day is expected to
swell the number there, too, II the temperature
keeps up The situation in Brooklyn is compli-
Gated by the lack OF adequate force of In
ternes at Kings County Hospital. where there
are only eight surgeons TO look after more than
six hundred patients. and Of those two are away
almost constantly on the ambulances. AT the
Coney Island hospital. where the ovenlike tenn
Ierature OF Surf avenue often results in many
cases or heat prostration induced by alcoholism,
there is only one surgeon, and he has been on
duty continuously for more than twenty-four
hours
Had Fl not been for the few drops OF rain
which fell around noon the list of dead and
Frustrated would have been greater. Coming
IN the middle OF the hottest day OF the year, the
little shower caused the temperature TO drop
from 80 TO SIS degrees in two hours. 1t also
cleared e great deal Of the moisture of the
air reducing the humidity. Just before noon
the humidity fell from 66 TO IS. but by o'clock
il had climbed back 10 ga. and suffering became
intense once more.
THE DEAD.
BROWN Francis No.
KOBLAHDT. Stanley, thirty-hve years ola. No, 24o
East aist
NARINIERICKLoA. Mamie. months old. Har-
Hospital
INQUIRE. =. thirty years old address unknown:
xNANUs. Michael. twenty-eight years old No 1925
Third avenue.
FRUSTRATED
BALDWIN Miss Agnes twenty years old dTessIna1eT
train al 72d street and Columbus avenue: ROOse-
BoLAND. James thirty-seven years old, 1anor OF
apartment house al No 81 East 57th street over
COHEN BENJAMIN. twenty-One years old No. 40 East
River: Beieyuo Hospital.
Elliott Place: Cumberland Street Hospital
DONOVAN John n fOrty-eight years Ola salesman,
ana Lexington avenue; Bellevue Hospital
from new TenderIOin TO Bellevue Hospital; heat
FOWLER John patroInnar. No 12c West 2Tth street;
overcOEs al FFanAin ana West streets: Hudson
GERREcg Henry twsnsy,aine years Gi % S0n No 100 o?
Orleans Hotel: Roosevelt Hospital
avenas. KiRss6ridss; F0rdhazn Hospital
GUTENBERG. Jacob. thirty-tVo years old. No.
East lIsth street; overcome al No. 500 Broadway;
St VIncents Hospital
HALEY. Chris. seventeen years old. No 80 Bartlett
street; overcome at Grand and Greene avenues:
oLLAP Lizzie. twenty years Old No isa East Tooth
CENTS Hospital
Lang William. forty-four old. No 2s2 West 21st
street overcome in Bryant Park; New York Hospital
NAY Carl twenty ola, No 3l6 East Goth street:
overcome Washington and Vestry streets; Hudson
Street Hospital.
street; overcome q 48s Broadway; sent home.
TATLIFEE Timothy tvyentyeight ;s years olt No & leo
and skull probably fractured; may de-
Harlem Hospital
street; overcome at BethuDe and West streets:
v.nceHt's Hospital.
MURPHY. John. twenty-five years old, No. 3S3 West
4th prostrated at No 2oe West 87th street;
may Gle. Roosevelt Hospital
PLANT. Louis forty-tve years old No 222 CafnoTelng
Avenue. The Bronx overcome at fremont avenue and
Boston Road: Fordham Hospital
. attended By Bellevue surgeon home
SEWARD. Thurlow. hfty-hve years old. No 2l8 ST
Brooklyn Hospital
fHANAIIAN. Dennis thirty years old, driver. No 637
may Gle: Flower Hospital
Row overcome al No 273 Pearl street: St Gregorys
sXIT Albert forty-u.ao years Old No oo1 East 9th
street; overcome at No 2O4 East osth street: Flower
t0TDaEMR MeE.ia tory old No Oh Ls.9.
tended by Dr. Dorsey. OF s. vincesst's Hospital
tome.
scU-zos ot:o th:Tty-es-. years Old No 1902 %
nue: Oye-co=s Broadway and Leonard street: Eud-
Street. Hospital.
ETAPHER, Edward No l4l East 18th street:
a. home; attended By Bellevue Hospital
tIEHNRCRG. J. forty years o6. No 29s Monroe street
ersrconae a. No 2l7 West t1st street. unconscious
euI.H. Deni.i srty-nins year. old No $40 2ad
sersst overcome at 22a stree, ard Avenu. A; Belle
We HOsIitai.
IAHH Minnie twsn;y-1our years DID No, I4s Eas, End
Avenue. overcome elevated train Chatham
ssaaTe; Gouvsrneur Hospital.
These figures IA the middle OF the day show
70 what the city exposed: u m, tempera-
,are 80; humidity. 4s; ?. m, temperature. SO;
humidity, 81; p. IT, temperature, So; humidity
tt- Al o'clock littis relief promised by the
Weather Bureau. which predicted cloudy
weather to-day and tomorrow, which may be
aaghtly cooler. But the winds from the south
vest sweeping across a sunbaked country give
little relief
Downtown the suffering intense as in
.Hs hucdled tene.nents Of the East Side. In the
hase rnan-buit canyons there was not a breath
" air stirring. and the discomfort was further
increased for those who focked TO the saloons.
1Aouising in alcoholic beverages. The man who
wore coat regarded as freak by most Of
NHe sensible persons. although here and there
0he might a man with little mutton chop
"Niskers wearing q coat and waistcoat and high
Standing cellar.
"hen night 1eI at Coney Island more than
hVe thousand men. women and children were
Neepirs on the beach, and several hundred
tWfe sought coOiness on the Dreamland pier. II
ss TIE hottest day at the island IN tTyO years.
'ohn Murphy Of No 333 West 4oth street,
oloAe of game os billiards yesterday at No.
~ West 9th street, long enough 70 take
ing drink from a flask. He went back 20 the
ta'ae' but fell unconscious while trying 70 make
tho;. lie taken 10 Roosevelt Hospital,
"Aere he probably will die.
Mhen Timothy McAuiefe was overcome by the