New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-05
Third Day Shows No AppreClable
Abatement OF the Death
Dealing Heat.
RAIN PROMISED FOR TODAY
Prostrations in Metropolitan
District Estimated at Up
ward Of Three
Hundred.
THE OFFICIAL THERMOMETER.

| Highest Temperature yesterday, ~ (st
$3.50 n. MI
The sickening, death bringing heat of
Sunday and Monday continued undated
yesterday. The slightly lover tempera-
ture was more than Offset by the great
er humidity and suffering IN the city
was greater than II has been for years.
With it's overcrowded hospitals. the con-
stant clang Of its hurrying ambulancc9
and the dearth Of people I'm its streets.
New York could almost be likened 10
plague or battle ridden city.
Persons dropped by scores in the
streets. many Of them dying before the
! arrival Of medical assistance. The am
! bulance service was hardly sufficient 10
meet the extraordinary demands upon il.
/ Worn out and exhausted by two preced-
/ ing days Of swetcring heat, many We're
unable to continue the battle. and the
! death list nearly tripled that Of any pre-
ceding day.
Thirty-fvo deaths were reported in
/ the metropolitan district, nearly three
times those Of Monday. Statements
/ from hospitals indicate that the list n
victims will be swcled as the night
wears away. Prostrations were so fire.
ouent that no accurate count Of them
could he made Their number is esti-
mated at over three hundred. The total
number Of fatalities due directly 70 heat
during the last three days now number
| sixty.
Twerty-one Of yesterdays fatalities
occurred In Manhattan and The Bronx
seven in Brooklyn. one i'm Queens. five
| in Newark. one at Rockaway Beach. and
one in Wechawken. The prostrstlons IN
! Manhattan alone tallied over ono hun
Gred There are unquestionably nun1er-
Gus other such cases which have not been
repoted
The Weather Bureau reported the
highest temperature at $50 o'clock in
the afternoon. when the mercury rose 10
93; the lowest at 8 in the morning, when
the Thermometer registered -. Their
mometers in business houses and on the
throughout the greater part OF the dsy.
In some parts Of the subway the mer-
curry scared 10 115 and 100. Showers
arc promised for to-day which may az
ford some relief
Little Hope OF Relief.
The Washington Weather Bureau said
last night II would not be quite 81
warm. with light varia bic winds" in the
interior OF the state. II would not vent
,ure 70 give any decided opinion as 10
break in the most acute heat wave ~
the year which yesterday held the
greater portion OF the country in its
grip on the eighty-four observation
stations OF the Weather Bureau In thi,
lcountry twenty-five recorded official
maximum temperatures of 100 degrees
or more, while a considerable majority
showed over 90 degrees.
The greatest heat area was i'm tbs
Middle and Central Western states.
The South was relatively cool and er-
cept that most Of the territory along tbs
borders of the northernmost OF the Grea,
Lakes were also cool, il would almost
have seemed as II the points Of the com
pass had reversed themselves for the
day
The greatest heat recorded vas 1Of
degrees In the weather observatories.
which in numerous Instances meant n
temperature OF almost 110 degrees at
street level. Eight cities. Albany. Bos-
ton, Charles City, Des Moiues. Kansas
City. Omaha. Sioux City and Indianapo
lis, reached this maximum OF 1oi de-
grees
Hundreds OF deaths are reported from
the cities, and the number Of heat pros
trations will run we'll into the thou
sands.
IN the great farming sections Of the
West crops suffered damage. Contin-
ued drouth in Kansas. together with
the sitting heat which has recently pre-
vailed. has worked great damage to all
of the grain crops.
Got Sleep lntermIttentIy.
New York slept spasmodically. inter
mittently, last night The intense heat.
combined with the greater humidity and
the strain Of the preceding days OF the
present hot spell. made anything like
refreshing rest impossible for the aver
age person. Lucky aud 10 be envied
was ne whose physical exertions In the
daytime made Nature enforce her own
laws and give him consecutive hours OF
unconsciousness.
The thermometer showed I'm the early
hours a lower temperature. and many
New Yorker returned TO his bed for
another nap, trying to convince himself
that II was really cooler, b his powers
of suggestion were not strone
enough 10 stand the strain. and Nor
pheus proved to be as bad as ca
PRECIOUS mistress, turning deaf ears tc
all wooing.
The safe and sane" idea being in thu
ascendancy, those who would sleep were
not tormented with the explosion Of fire
works or harassed by the cries OF chill
dren who had held giant crackers II
their hands the fraction of a second to-
llong He was startled by NOR