New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
As Mercury Touches SO
Scores Collapse in the
Searching City.
SIX DROWNINGS
AT THE BEACHES
,uIines TO Seashore Congested
Early BY Throngs In Mad
Rush for Air.

A murder, TWO suINiues' hNe uea'hs
t,,r heat apoplexy and more than
,.ors OF prostrations were the toll July
I,v;sS on New York and its surround
ING towns Yesterday. To this casualty
lie, NAV be added a half dozen drown
;r,s for which the heat was partly re-
,,onsjble. together with a tie-up of the
Lang Island Railroad at Jamaica.
Tn. mercury began to jump early
yesterday morning toward the 100
mark. Starting at II in the early
corning. it had gained IS points by
| q.sop. n. The thunder shower, coming
~, O: the northwest late in the after
roon. brought relief.
As the mercury climbed disasters
allowed in increasing numbers in its
,rain. Early yesterday morning Will
AN Krause. Of sos New York Avenue.
Jsrsey City. driven mad by the pro-
loneed heat, stabbed his wife, Cath
.,ins three times and then cut his own
throat
Pstrolman William Hoag heard the
vomsn's screams. He rushed into the
sogs. and found her lying en- 8 bed.
She whispered her husband had stabbed
| ls- and then tainted. The policeman
csunched the blood as we'll as he
| ,ould while waiting for an ambulance,
and after the woman had been taken to
| Civ Hospital searched the house. In
| the cellar he found KrauSe's body. 1t
| Is doubtful if Mrs. Krause will recover.
In the afternoon Naphtaly Sleeman,
4, eighty-fve-year-o inmate of the
| Home Of the Daughters Of Jacob, POI
Esst Broadway, hanged himself from
ladder on the top story Of the building
10 escape the suffering from heat. Five
other men dropped dead in and about
the city.
They are John J. Subject, forty-fve
years old. a driver, who died while
guiding his team in Brooklyn; Samuel
Cans. a retired merchant. who died at
his home. 40 Norfolk Street; William
C. Faulkner, sixty-fve years old, Of
/ Hilton, y. j., who was found dead on a
Newark trolley; Louis Maniaro, a la
barorer, of 90 Prospect Street, ia
msica. who dropped in the street, and
Charles Grede, who died while working
in bakery at ~ West 10th Street
asst ght
It was not the sun who took all the
blame for the hottest day OF the year.
The humidity bore the brunt Of the
blame 1T is really a beautiful day,
the average New Yorker remarked, If
Il wasn't so damp. The humidity, you
know" Then he mopped a new crop Of
persn:riation drops away with an al
ready saturated handkerchief and
steered for the nearest place offering
liquid refreshment
Few women ventured forth without
q portable roof betwiXt them and the
sun. These varied in shape and color
from the dngy family umbrella TO the
vivid parasol, but they were omnlpres-
e1t.
Thousands Flee City.
From early morning on every steam
ship and railway train leaving New
York was allied with persons fleeing
the cltv's temperature for a week end
To- mountains or az the sea shore. The
beaches about the city were crowded
until late last night, and the crowd at
Coney waKcd larger and larger as the
day waned.
DrownInCs in and near New York
were plentiful
William Zingaro, fifteen years old, of
219 East 15lst Street, died in the Har-
lem River, and his body was not re-
rar stunned
from under him.
Fourteen-year-o Leo McFay, of 7
Seventh Avenue, Long Branch, was
drowned in an ice pond at West Deal.
y j. He leaped into the water, no.
knowing that 1t was ten feet deep, and
sank before help could arrive.
Tony BusSano, fifteen years old, OF
81 Wallis Avenue, Jersey City, lost h IS
life IN the Hackensack River while
bathing. His body was not recovered.
While wading in Staten Island Sound
az Elizabeth, n. j., Daniel Boyle, four
teen years old, Of 40 Third Street, Ellz-
bseth, went beyond his depth and was
drowned
Seven year-old Charles Snow, of At
lantic Avenue and Nevins Street. Brook
Ign, drowned while bathing in the East
River His body was not recovered:
Joseph Hodge, forty-tve years old'
OF Liverpool, a stoker on the Orduna,
lying at the foot Of Thirteenth Street,
was drowned while swimming near the
ship.
With the advent Of the thunder
shower the mercury fell ten degrees,
and the weather man said it was a
promise Of cooler weather to-day. This
authority also said that yesterday was
undoubtedly hot, but did not come
within two degrees of the high heat
mark Of the year set on April u,
when the thermometer registered 81.
During the storm Charles Radey
conductor on a Flushing Avenue car.
was knocked senseless by bolt oil
lightning, which struck near the plat
form on which he was standing. lie
was revived at a police station and
went home.
Many Persons Frustrated.
Those in and about the city who |
collapsed under the heat yesterday !
are:
ANDERSON. Jennie twenty seven years old Of
s--' Foster Avenue. Brooklyn. taken 70 St Mays |
Hospital
BERGEN 'rrst name and address no, known) be
t,,ed 70 ts essr packer dr9pped dead at ne
bfo1aJu. taken 70 WIZ amsburg Hospital
bKl ST Frank forty two years old Of COZ Temp /
krs Avenue. T0mpNnsyIlle Staten Island, over
come IN front OF 74O Ninth Avenue. New YORK: /
taken 70 Polytechnic Hospital
CAMERON. Agnes. twenty eight years old. Of MD |
land Park. y . overcome At Rutgers and |
Greenwich streets New York. taken to Hudson
street Hospital
COPE Grace Of $50 Fifty third Street. Brooklyn: |
eraome a. Der home taken 10 ~. Mays Hos |
ptaL
GlBNK. Michael. twenty i've years old. OF $50
Wellington Street Brooklyn. collapsed at his +