New-York tribune., 1910-06-23
HEAT KILLS FIVE MEN
AND PR0STRATES MANY
Many Driven to Roofs and Docks
to Seek Relief Fall and
Are Injured.
HOSPITALS ARE PREPARED
Children Crowd Free Baths,
Many Families Take to Parks
and Edwards Orders Rest
for Street Sweepers.

Though the temperature at its high
est yesterday was IS degrees, two de
grees below the maximum of the day
| before, 1t directly caused the death o.
four men and was indirectly responsi!
bic for the fatal fall of another. Still
another man hung between life ant
death all day as the result of a similar
accident while trying to find some relie1
and little girl was seriously injured
in like manner. One man escaped with
q ducking after rolling off a pier into
the North River.
Unable to sleep in his room. Fred
Winkel. 35 years old, of Mills Hotel, No
8. went yesterday morning to the pier
at West 3Sth street and the North
River. He lay down on the stringpiece
and was soon asleep. Shortly after
ward he rolled off into the water. Being
una BILE to swim. he held on to bulk
head and finally Patrolnlan Campbell.
of the West 37th street station, heard
his shouts and tossed him q, rope.
winkel grabbed it and pulled himself
to the pier. He suffered only from
the drenching, and refusing medical
assistance walked back to his room
James Gaffney. 40 years old. of No.
81 East 73d street, after leaving some
friends early in the morning, went TO
the roof of No. 31S East 73d street
and lay down near the airshaft. He
fell to the bottom Of the shaft. dis
tance of four stories. At the Presby-
terian Hospital. where he was taken, it
was said last night that he was still in
e critical condition.
Katherine Kenlen. eight years old,
was placed by her parents on the fire
escape of the second floor of No. 400
West 44th street, where she lived. In
her sleep sne fell through the opening
to the yard. Her parents carried her
to Roosevelt Hospital, where it was
found that she had decorations about
the body and possible internal injuries.
BIANT, John thirty years old. was overcome
last evening while work in the plant Of
the Sanitary Utilization Company, on Ear
vas taken taSen acToss to caaarsie. Where an
ambulance was IN waiting, but before he
reached ST. Marys Hospital Brooklyn. he
was dead.
who lived at Ne. Us Bowery, was found
dead in bed last night at that that &sf address Dr.: Dr.;
called, said the heat had killed him
CoRsINA, Mena, thirty-eight years old, died in
ST Mary's Hospital, Jamaica, from heat
prostration- He was employed by the ia
naeica Estates and was overcome while at
work.
MULLIGAN. Patrick. hfty-tro years old. of
No 90 West 4eth street, street sweeper,
was overcome by the heat while at work
and reeled into saloon at s7th street and
Tenth avenue Before Dr.. Wilkinson er-
rived from Flower Hospital the man was
dead
WCRoRKEN. John. twenty-five years old. a
student in the College Of Physicians and
Surgeons, Of No. 1S5 West a2d street went
night and during the early morning hours
yesterday rolled through the opening. He
fell three stories to the ereaway and was
instantly killed
Crazed by the heat, Mrs. Nellie Fin
kelstein. twenty-five years old. of No.
526 Ralph avenue, Brooklyn, attempted
suicide by drinking a mixture of paris
green in the hallway Of her sisters
home, No. IL Grafton street Patrol
man Benjamin Burton saved her life by
administering an antidote.
While in front of No. 50 Vesey street
John Wilson, forty-f five years old, q cook,
of No 6 William street. fell to the side
walk He was taken to the Hudson
Street Hospital, where it was said his
condition was due to drinking too much
iced water.