Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-05
IN NEW ENGLAND.
Thirty one Deaths Tuesday as Result
of the Excessive Heat.

Bos On, July 4.-Thirty-ene persons
died in New England today as a direct
result of the excessive heat People
in all walks of life. were stricken and
died, many of Them within few mo-
ments of being overcome. In addition
there were scores of prostrations on
every side.
In Boston seven deaths occurred and
in Salem. six. In Newburyport there
were three and an equal number in
Lowell. In other places the number
was as follows Barre, VT. /; Provi-
dence. .; Lawrence, 2; Saco, Me, l.;
Spencer. /; Portland, Me-, /; Keene,
". H., l, and in different parts of Con-
necticut, 3.
Boston. July An New England
withered today under conditions OF
temperature which were the highest
ever recorded. The temperature of
Sunday in Boston was officially 90,
which was the highest for 80 years; on
Monday 102 degrees. which stood as
the highest mark on record, was
reached. Today. the official weather
bureau handed down its bulletin of
1887. The figures are merely official
and by no means show the heights
reached by heat recorders in more ex-
posed places, reports from various
sections of New England showing the
temperature commonly reached to be
above ITO, and in some places as high
as $50 degrees.
That such conditions should come on
a Sunday and holiday with one day
intervening when work could conven-
iently be called off. was d blessing to
the thousands confined in workshops.
mills and stores. where the death rate
must have mounted high under other
circumstances. The holiday gave hui
rnanity the opportunity of employing
.he best means of meeting the elements
and fatalities We're kept remarkably
low
The best evidence that the torrid
wave had approached it's limit came
tonight in reports of showers in Ger
tain parts of western Massachusetts,
and terrific thunderstorms in Maine.
That New England would be swept
by electrical storms within the next
"a hours seemed not improbable al
though hope of pronounced relief was
not held out by the weather buGau
officials for several days yet.
Tho official report of three deaths and
% pros,rations in Boston UP to P. NJ,
but partially described the results of Old
Soils work in this city. At the Roxbury
anniversary parade held in the morning,
scores of mill and 2illvan paraders were
overcome. 10 sailors and coast artillery
men being treated alone In Intercoloniai
hall, while Of the officers riding at the
mead OF the parade, more than half we're
obliged to quit their posts and submit to
restorativeG.
The deaths recorded in Boston are as fol-
lows:
Victoria DJro. Q months. tf Lynn, over
come on he North ferry and taken TO the
East Boston hospital where death followed
Peer j. Mahoney, aged 40, single, Of 80
Curve street overcome st Harrison ave-
lue stable and died before the ambulance
arrived: Patrick Sweeney aged 2S years.
Of us Charter street. overcome and dying
at bis home.
Three other deaths were reported from
Newburyport, where the thermometer reach
cd It's. Samuel n. Curtis. aged Is years.
10 Dread Column, one year, and Charles
Adams aged II years, were the victims.
One death was caused by the heat in
Woburn. Patrick Flaherty, aged 20 years,
was fond dead behind the Fox tannery.
SprlDghelds temperature, as reported from
tha United States arr,ory, was lot de-
Il grecs. aEt&