New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-11
Temperature Lower, but So
Is Vitality, and Humidity
Adds to the Gen.
eral Suffering.
EX-STATE SENATOR DIES
Drill Proves Firemans Last
Workman Attempts Suicide, but
Patrolman Prevents Him
Cooler Weather Prom
ised To- day.

The foreeaster predicts unsettled snc
slightly cooler weather, with pro5abl;
showers for to-day, and clear weather
for to morrow.
Although the temperature at Its high
est point yesterday, l:15 p. m. registered
only 81 degrees, two points less thar
on Tuesday. the city seemed 20 feel th(
heat more keenly. Three days fight to
keep cool doubtless had the erect o'
lowering vitality.
However,. there were seven deaths ana
more than a score were Frustrated. Dur
ing the last three days nineteen persons
have died from the sizzling heat and
>sixty-one have been Frustrated.
In addition TO the deaths in the sreater
city there were two reported from New
ark.
Those who died in the city yesterday
were:
KoENIGsBERG. Hrsch. seventy years ole, a
merchant, who had been III for some time,
died at his home at No 1947 Second avenue.
LEPITTALLo, Matteo one month old; died at
No 1881 DeKalb avenue. Brooklyn.
MAcKEY. William 5. ffty-three years old; for
Bristol. No. l22 West 10Th street.
MAHONEY. Cornelius thirty-four years old.
fireman, Of No. 22S4 Concourse, The Bronx
Hospital and died few hours later.
sAHLSTON Charles thirty-nine years old;
found dead in bed at his home, No. $50 loth
street. Brooklyn.
sTRAUB. wilhemna, ffty-seven years old.
found dead in chair at her home at No. go
East SD street by her husband.
WELLS, Richard. forty-two years old; arrested
for intoxiCation and found dead in his cell
in Raymond street jail. BROOKLYN
Ats O'Clock in the morning the humid
ity was -. but by 2 o'clock in the after
noon it had dropped to 10. The warmest
July 10 on record was last year when 30
degrees was registered. The temperature
yesterday was 3 degrees cooler than at
2 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, but the
humidity was Q degrees higher.
In Newark five cases of prostration
were reported. Two died there. Mary L.
Clark, Of No. No. 431 Summer avenue,
one Of the parole officers of the Probation
Bureau. was stricken in her home. Will
lam Benkirk, sixty-thre years old, of
No. 107 Lille street. was overcome at
his home and died in an ambulance on
the way to the City Hospital.
Two Crazcd by Heat.
Two men suffered so much from the
heat in New York that they became
crazed and had to be restrained and SEM
70 hospitals.
Gerasino Lasernates forty years old,
laborer, Of No. 40 Greenwich street, had
been working in the roadway without
protection from the sun, in front OF No.
27S Sixth avenue AS the morning crowd
Of people bound for their Offices was
passing he suddenly drew a razor from
his hip pocket and attempted to slash
his throat policeman managed -
secure the weapon after a severe strug
gle
John Carnardo, forty-two years DID, Of
Somewhere on Morris avenue" The
Bronx. became so violent at 18th street
and the Concourse, that he, too, was re-
moved 10 a hospital by a policeman.
Court attendants and other officials in
the West Side court said their thermom-
eter registered more than 100 degrees.
Anyway, IL was so blooming hot that
Magistrate Butts, most digniied jur-
ut, whipped off his robes and then told
everybody else TO take off his coat If he
wanted to. Everybody wanted to and
did. The magistrate was almost cheere1.
Former State Senator William F.
Aackey, who died from the heat in his
room in the Hotel Bristol, at No. 122
West 10th street, was ffty-three years
Old. He was born in Lancaster. Erie
County, ". Y.
IN the morning his secretary went 10
report for work and found Mr.. Mackey
oead In his bed. The secretary in
santly called for Dr. Youman, of No. 4G
west 4Sth street. The physician said
that Mr. Mackey had died from heat
prostration. The hotel management said
ne had stopped there at different times
curing the last year and n half.
Ar. Mackey had orc son, DR.. T. II.
Aackey, whose homo is in Buffalo.
Cornelius Mahoney, the fireman who
oisd in Flower Hospital, was reported as
o'iliine in the gymnasium at Fire Head
quarters from where he was taken in
tne ambulance Although 1t is an
swfully hot summer, certain members Of
each company and crew have 10 repot
oaily 10 their Headquarters for the