New-York tribune., 1908-07-13
NEW AND HOTTER WAVE
EIGHT VICTIMS SUCCUMB.
,rory Persons Prostrated-Bedches
Black seith Bathers.

r..s,,r heat and its invariabe consequence,
&c discomfort and suffering, again held
- over the city yesterday and last night
- the short respite of four days the sun
:, with renewed energy its prostrating
'Oo over helpless mortals. and before it sark
- victims bore testimony TO its strength
-, temperature and humidity Joined in a
,loss corporation every one IN Manhattan
-. surrounding cities and towns dropped
end wilted in despair
.r.o fo-ecaster says there will be showers to-
- tomorrow and that the heat wave will
,.s+ ,ons Late yesterday afternoon threat
clouds fioated over the city. but the re-
,-sshing rain did not come.
.y,,ndreds Of thousands thronged the beaches
,-np the entire day and evening trying to find
-,pef in the cool waters of the ocean Long lines
.-roed in front of all the bathing pav'lions-
r,erv boat going to Coney Island was packed
tile the Subway and the Brooklyn RAPID iran
- had record breaking crowds. Every one was
80, and impatient OF the least delay. AT the
h..cbes on Staten Island the crowds were just
large. Midland Beach had one of the largest
crowds in its history
+,a Tersev side of the Hudson steaming
,,o-bo++anites congregated in large masses. So
-1e..a,, had been the last few days that the
-. heat was felt more keenly than before
20 remained in the city who could possibly
help it .,..,
- eight o'clock in the morning the humidity
.s Ss The mercury stood then only few
sserees above 20 the lowest during the twenty
- hours But before the afternoon was over
a. had recorded 93.7 at the weather bureau
the hottest day so far this summer
Five deaths from the heat were reported IN
grooklvn at an early hour in the evening IN
mo,hattan many were prostrated, but in only
foil
sortis Kassakian, an Armenian about sixty
..,.-s of age. of No. 455 Kerrigan avenue, West
,5bol,en was walking in Bronx Park during
~. afternoon with his wife and daughter when
~ Suddenly fell to the ground and died without
-.rsin,ng consciousness DR. Lordi, who was
,rr,nsdia+ely summoned from Fordham Hospital
,.ia death was due 10 heart disease brought on
s,-.,,,, by the heat. The list OF the dead and
,be prostrated follows:
THE DEAD.
cox Harold three months old. No es1 Metropolitan
Brooklyn
-oSzrrEz Andrew hftz-eieht years old. No ITS stass
street Brooklyn; died at his home
,,,-vcA. stenhen nttv years old. 800 East 2sth
.,r.et, des At Bellevue Hospital
CANES John thirty-nine years old No, iSs PARK F0"
,..,v,.x ss-t,s No ass Kerrigan Ho-
boken; Bronx Park
-r,sxY Annie one month old. No III North 9Th
street BROOKLYN.
SMITH "a. eight months old. Is Grattan street
Brookyn
~RIsaa FT6sE,5- n eight Gays 0'' 10 &c
The FRUSTRATED
rss s4lTsgsf5 s aTs gg,erdsm 9a S9 saenas s
Roosevelt Hospital
DREKEE years . "a sSen Ho Ci1 12sJ
PARK Cana-sle taken home.
cEBAR Israel fourteen months old. No, 23s Georgia
avenue Brooklyn: Kings County Hospital
eoULDEY. hirtynine years Old No t2s 2sa.
Kensing1on Philadelphia: overcome IN fron'
isnd ' street Refused medical attendance
GREGG Michael nineteen years old ~ No 1a5
Greenpoint avenue, Brooklyn; Frustrated in Noble
street. taken home
HMERs J2 fr ~ & sFs % 9s 10 12'4E 1a2 Fast s'r5 sfs
street Bellevue Hospital
KENPTox, Marv sixty Years old, No a a. venda.' ho
Removed her home
~crE Ja2ss sl.ty.z "a q No 1s FTa,t -
Bellevue Hospital.
Greenwich street. bellevue Hospital
PIERCE Gertrude. tventythree years old No 1la oak
erssnr65 sTse, \ Attended Al n an ambuisnoe sur
and later returned 10 her home.
aoT a. M9a s4,ee Tss-; @ % %ld w NJ ,o,s 90 sss5 sss5
svenue. Flower Hospital
rAE coRTI- Nd. Fenrv. thtrty-four Years old Of
rital
Ar urideutifed about twenty-five wears old: over
come 1874 and Fort George avenue
Washington Heights Hospital.
II the city parks crowds settled in every
Shady spot and in the evening the entire area
Of the parks was filled
On thu upper West Side. in Riverside Park.
from ll0ih 70 e6th street. over five thousand
persons gathered during the evening. q great
Proportion Of them being women and children,
many # whom went TO the park equipped with
pillows. as If 10 stay through the night in the
cool breezes near the water
AT De Witt Clinton park, AT Eleventh and
Twelfth avenues. from SD to 54th street every
Inch Of space was occupied throughout the en-
Tire evening
Recreation piers all over the city were crowd
% in the evening by people from the congested
hesf