Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-07-16
|OR|VEA MAD BY
THE FIERCE HEAT
Hottest Day Of the Year In Many
Cities and Towns.
MANY DEATHS THE RESULT

Excessive Humidity, Added 10 the
High Temperature, Makes the Tor
rid Wave Almost unbearabIe--In
Washington Mercury Reaches 1o2--
Cool Breeze Came in Afternoon and
AIleyiated Suffering.
From Tie World OF Monday:
Saturday and yesterday we're the
hottest days that have been reported
this year. The thermometers Satur.
Iday according to Weather Observer
Vanmeter rose as high as ae degrees
in the shade, and all during the day
lowered around IS degrees. The
weather was very oppressive % men
working in the fields. Yesterday the
thermometer registered 90 and in
some places, II is said, II WIS 81.
There were no reports of persons be
ing overcome in this section.
Deaths In New York.
New York, July 11--Yesterday was
the hottest day of the year In New
York. Three persons went mad with
the heat and ten others died Of IT, The
| list Of prostrations was long.
The night had been suffocating, and
with the first rays OF sunlight the Their
mometer began to climb again. At
1890 p. m. il was 90 degrees, one de.
gree hotter than Saturday maximum
lat 4 p. M, but the humidity was not
so high and early in the afternoon a
refreshing breeze sprang up.
Ten Deaths In Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, July 11.-Ten deaths
and many prostrations occurred here
yesterday as a result Of the excessive
heat The humidity was So during the
| morning hours, and the mean temper
ature for the day was "a. The max
imum temperature. 80, was recorded
at D. m Late In the afternoon a
cool breeze from the West brought re-
lief, and at p. m. the mercury had
descended to n.
| fC2 In the Shade.
l mlduASiOWuf W. - July h1
thermometer here touched 1872 degrees
In the shade yesterday afternoon, ex-
ceeding the heat OF Saturday which
was counted the hottest day in many
years.
| National Capitol SHELTERED.
| Washington, July 1.-THE national
capitol sweltered yesterday in torrld
heat which caused one death, that OF
a negro infant and the prostration 81
four other persons. On Pennsylvania
Iavenue the thermometer registered
102 degrees.
Weather Causes Suicide.
Lonsdale, r. l., July 1f.-With her
| baby, less than year old, clasped in
| her arms the body Of Mrs. Patrick
McOahe was found floating IN the
Blacks one Canal yesterday.
| 1t is believed that the heat, together
with long standing illness. affected
the woman's mind and caused her TO
drown herself and child. She was rs
years old.
4 66GI Mis- FlNtSpuEHci6s
Pittsburg, July 11.--With temper
AZURE of 80 degrees yesterday and ex.
| cessive humidity two deaths occur
red from heat exhaustion in Pittsburg,
and there was general SUFFERING
with many prostrations. Harry
Simms, colored, who died in q hos
pital and Sarah Stetanovic, aged g.,
were the heat victims.
Hot Wave Causes Crime.
! Detroit. Mich, July Hone muir
er shooting which probably will
result fatally, three suicides and an
other attempt CT self-destruction
which may yet end successfully, Is the
record of crime in Detroit for yester-
day Fred T. Jones, an automobile
tester, shot and, II is thought, mortal
ly wounded his wife and then ended
, his own life by firing bullet irto his
brain.
Henry Sharpe, a waiter shot and
killed his wife after chasing her from
their home into the street.
: Mrs. Herbert A. Hunt drank carbol-
ic acid and died.
An unknown man jumped from
Belle Isle bridge into the Detroit riv-
er, from which his body has not been
recovered
Lew Newman laid down on the
railroad track in front OF an approach
ing train. He sustained fractured
skull and is in the hospital, not ex-
pected to recover.