New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
MERCURY AT q;
HOTTEST JULY 81
In A YEARS HERE
Six Die from Heat, Two of
Them Driven to Suicide
Three Drowned.
BOY A VICTIM
IN CENTRAL PARK
Many Are Prostrated-NO Re.
lief in Sight-Throngs Flee
to Hills and Beaches.

The mercury, which has been special
izing in altitude fights for the last few
days, went out after a record yester-
day. By o'clock in the afternoon il
had reached 92 degrees. thereby be-
slowing on the day not alone the noto-
riety of being the hottest of the sum
mer so far, but also the added dis
tinction of being the warmest July g.!
which the city has felt in forty-four
years.
At sunrise the city was almost bear
able. The mercury was resting at rs
degrees. Shortly thereafter the heat
qulckened and began a sullen, relent-
less drive toward the COS, which
reached its climax and the seasons
record at in the afternoon. Under
its influence humans wilted and col
lapsed with almost the frequency of
linen collars. Scores dropped in the
streets and ambulances were busy from
sunrise to sunset carrying victims to
the hospitals.
Throngs Flee City.
By noontime every train and boat
leaving the city was jammed. The
beaches about the city were crowded
all day long. From the lower East
Side men, women and children made
for the city parks and sat there, gasp
ing, long into the night.
To the sun-scorched city the Weather
Bureau offers no hope of relief. To-
morrow, it says, will be continued
warm, with light winds" High humid
ity will also probably continue.
In the wake Of the years hottest
day followed the usual number OF
casualties in and about the city. Six
deaths, two of them suicides, are at
tributed 10 the weather.
Three drownings are also recorded
and more than forty heat prostrations
in the city alone. One man fell and
was seriously injured while sleeping
on fire escape.
Driven to frenzy by the heat. Henry
Schulta, jsnitor Of the apartment
house at 161 Manhattan Avenue, wait
ed until his wife had gone out and
then hanged himself by a rope at
tached to the bathroom transom after
turning on the gas. He was dead when
his wife returned.
After complaining that he could
stand the heat no longer, Andrew Sny-
der, of Raritan, n. J., went to his
room, stood in front Of his looking
glass and sent a revolver bullet thro. rh
his brain.
Boy browns in Park.
The heat caused the death of Arthur
Sprague, of 365 West Eleventh Street.
He was sitting in his back yard when
he collapsed. He died before a ply
sician arrived.
John Crinion, subway inspector,
died at his home, Decatur. Street,
from the heat last night.
Driven by the heat TO Central Park
Philip Conf. seven years old, decided,
with his two playmates, to steal a swim
in the lake. Conf was familiar with
the water, but in swimming beneath
the surface was caught beneath an
overhanging ledge, wedged fast and
drowned The body was recovered
after half an hours search by lsidore
Spiegel, a twelve-yesr-ol Boy Scout.
Henry Mixinewsky, seventeen, Of
Clifton, n. j., was seized with cramps
while swimming in Nash's Pond yes
terday afternoon. He sank before his
companions could reach him. The
body was recovered.
welve-year-old Ernest Mauro, of
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