The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-20
SIX MORE DEATHS
CAUSED BY HEAT
Twenty-Five PrOstratiOns Toll
Of a Day Of Excessive
Humidity.
MAN DIES AT BALL GAME

Six deaths in the greater city yester-
day were attributed directly or indirectly
to the heat. In addition there were
twenty-five cases of heat prostration and
a sharp increase in cases Of sickness for
which ambulance calls were sent In to
the public hospitals. In Manhattan
alone there were sixty-two accidents. in
many of which the heat and humidity
played a part.
The deaths for which the heat was
held more or less directly responsible
included that Of II. n. Wildt. head OF
tho II. II. Wildt Company, Ltd, Of Lei
cester. England. who died at the Hotel
Aston. Thomas Foy. an ironworker. was
overcome by heat while working on a
building at Broadway and Twenty-sixth
street and fell fourteen stories. y man
whose identity had not yet been learned
last night died IN the bleachers at the
Polo Grounds.
The temperature alone. although AZ
the weather bureaus height 1t reached
the maximum of SIS degrees at 3 L. NJ.
would have been a bearable aff,iction
but a high percentage OF humidity, rang
ing from 10 to the point OF precipitation,
made life In the perspirsng valleys where
thermometers always regtster several
more desre,s thar they do in the oificial
empyrean. somewhat hard to bear. es-
pecially for manual workers. That Is
what kept the hospital ambuhnces busy
Several times during the evening
when the humidity was close to lOo pc
cent, the air tried to turn TO moisture
There were several evanescent dfizzie'
In Brooklyn n one downtown "
Manhattan that did not manifest itsei
on the Weather Bureau tower on IN
Whitehall Building. That is why Off
clally there was no rain yesterday. al
though the ma tional forecaster had sai'
there might be thunder Tn
national and local prophets professe'
to see last nigh, a change for the bette
on the way. They said that II would b
partly cloudy and cooler to-day and TAI
tomorrow.
Death at the Polo GrOu
The man who died at the Pol,
Grounds collapsed In the bleachers II
the Attn inning. when the Giants go
three runs and tied the score viii ~
! Louis. The physicians thought the hea
had combined with the excitement .
TIE game to affect the mans heart. II
was about 80 years old. > feet 10 inche
tall and weighed $50 pounds. He wore
blue serge suit and straw hat and had
keyring bearing the initials sc. q. T..
The body was taken 10 the morgue.
Joseph sullivan, -. a fireman. of q
Court House place, Jersey city. wa
taken ia the Volunteer Hospital fror
43 Exchange pl.ce suffering from IN
heat and died four hours later.
H.. - lA-.A w...a FL,.NN.
dead In bed by his wife In his HON
at AZ l0lst street, in the For, Hamil
ton section OF Brooklyn. Death wa
attributed to the heat.
John Mullaney. 40, "A laborer. was foun
dead in "A cement yard at Carroll stree
and Gowanus Canal. Brooklyn. He Az
parentiy had died from the results q
the heat.
Mrs. Charlotte Green. So. of All
Rockaway road. Ozone Park. Queer,
a sufferer from asthma. died on the pore
Of her home Her malady HAD bee
greatly aggravated by the heat.
Frederick y. Sainner, so years old. @
1907 Tenth avenue, employed as fore
man by the Wright a o I.igh,erag
Company at the foot OF West Forty
seventh street. died suddenly at ga
o'clock last night as a result OF the hea'
The body was taken to the West Forty
seventh street station.
Many children sought relief from tn
heat by going on the fire escapes
Charles Gazzola. \ years old. OF 81
East l05th street. while laying on On
OF the escapes fell from the NTH floor {
the second floor fire escape. He vi
taken to Reception Hospital with a fra,
tured skull.
Another case reported Was that c
Mollie Gosse!m. ) years old. Of 90
sixth street. who fell from the frs, foe
window to the yard. Her skull wa
fractured. She Is I'm Bellevue Hospit.
in a serious condition.