The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
1915'S HOTTEST DAY
TAKES HEAVY TOLL
Heat Kills Five, Causes
Three Suicides and Pros
trates Forty-one.
WORST JULY 81 SINCE II
Promise Of Relief Given in
Prediction of Showers
for To-day.
WORST JULY 81 SINCE II


yesterday took It's toll OF the greater
city. While the mercury was varying
from rs at 6 o'clock In the morning TO
80. Us highest point, at 4 O'Clock In the
afternoon. Ave died, three committed
suicide and fourth was saved Just In
time. one went insane. Ave were hurt
IN accidents traceable 20 the heat and
forty-one were prostrated a far greater
number than on any other day OF 1915.
| II was the hottest July 81 in forty
four years
The only day this year that came near
yesterday for heat was April q. when
the mercury stopped just one degree
below to-day's record. at 81. The hu-
midty yesterday. however. was high
early In the day. 1t was 70 at o'clock.
but got down to ~ at O'Clock. when
the mercury was highest.
The local forecas;er promises relief
to-day. however. with probable local
showers and a partly overcast sky that
| will keep back some Of the hottest OF
| the suns rays. The forecast for to-
morrow too Is FOR lower temperature.
| This change came as ! pleasant sur
prise after the early forecast OF con-
tinued warm weather VITA no letup IN
sight un;il tom rrow.
II was noticeable that many OF the
deaths and accidents and large pro-
portion OF the prostra:iors came rather
later In the day ;Han usual ana COM
paraiively few about noon. Several
died as they sougat relief ::om he aeat
Dies In His Chair.
Arthur Sprague. "a, a laborer. living
at 365 West Eleventh street, sat w.ih
IA party OF friends early yesterday after.
noon IN the back yard OF 3Os Wes'
Eleventh street trying 10 keep cool
I'm awtuliy hot" he said, and sud
denly fell forward ou; OF his chair. An
ambulance surgeon from 81. Vincent
Hospital said the heat had caused MS
death The body was taken 10 his hone
JOHN Crnion, As. a subway inspector.
d!ed In his apartment on the fourth iioor
OF Decatur street, Brooklyn. before m
ambulance from 81. Johrss Hospiia.
could reach the house Two l'te ch!!-
d-cn died also Nicholas sr-sde~ A
ftur-mont old baby, d!ed AZ lOd James
street. the home OF his parents. before A
nhvsician could even be summoned
Morris Kocowitzky. .. died at 1888 East
1894 street just as a Mount Sinai Hos
pital ambulance reached the door
Michael Powers. 26. pipe litter l'N-
Ing At 223 East li2th street. fell a vic
tim OF the heat az 10 o'clock last n'gAt'
when he died suddenly at his home,
After complaining OF the hot weather.
Henry Schulta. ~. janitor OF l6l Man
haitian avenue. went up to his room.
Soon af,erward he was found hanging
from the gas jet and with the gas turred
on full He was dead.
In Raritan. n. J.. Edward Snyder. n
member OF Company III OF the Third
Regiment of the New Jersey National
Guard. shot himself through the head.
standing before mirror. HIS wife
said Snyder had been greatly depressed
all dag, and had said, "lf ii would only
rain
An ambulance from ST. GATHERINGS
Hospital arrived just in time 10 save the
l.fe of Helen Taylor, %. who took iodine
in her home at SEA Metropolitan avenue
Bro klyn. She is charged with attempted
suicide Though she would give no
cause for her ac; the police think 1t was
the oppressive weather.
The heat drove one man insane. Hugh
McEwan, 65, o! S2l Avenue II. Brooklyn,
was taken from Bethesda Sanitarium,
s52 ST. Marks avenue, Brooklyn. where
he was n patient, to the Kings County
Hospital. Physicians who examined him
| said there was no upupt tHiN III MS
weakened condition the heat had de-
prived him OF his reason.
Many mothers allowed their children
TO play on the fire escapes, hoping they
would escape the worst effects Of the
sun. Several OF them fell and were IN
.jured. Three-year-old Corlippe Esposito
probably will die nj Lebanon Hospital
from a fractured skull and internal in
juries received when she fell from the
second floor rear fire escape at the home
OF her parents. 265 East li9th street,
The Bronx. to the paved courtyard.
Fire Escape Accidents.
John Mcmahon. who is years old.
fell six stories from the fire escape out
side his parents apartment at il0 West
Fifty-sixth street. His skull was frac-
tured and he was badly bruised, II was
said at Roosevelt Hospital that the
child's recovery was very doubtful.
Benjamin Silver, .. was more for
tunate. His mother allowed tho baby to
stray alone onto the fire escape. and he
fell through the ladder opening TO the
balcony below His head was bruised.
! but after he had been plastered up he
was not taken to a hospital
His yearning for a cool place led Nell
son Schoolmaker, I, of 254 West
! il43d street, to Chamber on the rear OF an
ice wagon. When the wagon started
suddenly cake OF ice fell on him and
broke his right leg,
or the forty-one prostrated, most We're
. laborers obliged to work under the suns
RAYS and where they were reflected from
, hot asphalt. They fell in no particular
, neighborhood uptown and downtown
the heat seemed equally deadly. Another
, respect In which the day was record
breaker, in Brooklyn at least, was in
the l49 ambulance calls that came in
before II o'clock last night.
But II the weather hit the city and
, its residents hard, at least they liked
, 1t at Coney Island. II was estimated
n that nearly l65. 900 fled to the water to
. keep cool yesterday, and that too Is a
record. 1t was expected that the largest
crowd of the summer would sleep on the
sands, perhaps 10000. Detectives and
uniformed police were detailed to guard
them from pckpockets,
Along both river fronts the piers were
, croweded with sleepers. and in the parks
and squares 1t was hardly possible to
walk about without stepping Oh human
forms II became IA little cooler toward
morning. however, AZ the forecaster
had predicted. and for once all looked
forward eagerly to rainy Sunday
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