The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-03
.1S DEATHS DUE TO
HEAT AND HUMIDITY
Oppressive Combination Causes
Much Suffcring-Tem-
peraturc 81.
RELIEF TO-DAY-PERHAPS

The weather yesterday. according 10
the experts in the Whitehall Building,
was worse han Sunday. but not AZ
bad as Saturday. The unusually op-
pressive combination Of temperature and
humidity caused thirteen deaths. includ-
ing one suicide. There were also two
accidents and thirty-eight prostrations
in the metropolitan district n thirteen
cases of illness in the streets probably
were due partly to the heat. Ambulance
surgeons said. The deaths yesterday
combined with the Ave on Saturday and
six on Sunday make twenty-three In the
last three days.
1t looks. however. as II the Ions
promised respite might come to-day.
The forecaster predicts that h Their.
=. mometer. will not 60 above so. n per-
haps not so high. Cool weather Is com-
ing here from the Great Lake region,
heralded by last nights showers. 1t is
r badly needed. for the mercury yesterday
varied from 70 degrees at midnight
Sunday to rs at s o'clock in the morn
. liz. tntl " oV at y ticNN" WV =
little drop. 1t went up to 81 at 2:45
T. o'clock. The humidity varied from -
IN the morning to IS at . o'clock in the
afternoon. After the shower at 80
o'clock a little breeze came UP and made
life more endurable.
> The Dead.
. BOWERS. WILLIAM. &c. ioS wall street,
Elizabeth, ". j.. sunstroke and cramps
while bathing near Recreation Pier.
Body recovered.
'vRosCHNER. FkEDA, so. AS Hainburs
avenue. Brooklyn. overcome In the sub-
way and died In Brooklyn Hospital.
KELLY. CATHERINE, So. $40 Hoyt street.
Brooklyn. overcome at her home.
xISCH. FRANCES. IS. Sc Dewey street.
Hospital, Brooklyn.
LAMBERT. DAVID. %. iE Third street.
salesman. found dad In bed yesterday
morning.
LEIssENscHMIDT. MRS. THEODORE,
IS, 81 psKalb avenue. White Plains.
overcome In South Broadway and died
on veranda where she sought shelter.
NORRIS FRED. so. Janitor at Sis East
i5oth street, found dead In bed.
QUINLAN. THOMAS. IS. S5:t Third ave.
nue., Brooklyn; died while working =,
the Bush Terminal. Forty-third street.
Brooklyn.
RABiNo. THERESA, Is. "a? East Houston
street: died at Gouverneur Hospital o!
fractured skull and internal injuries re-
eslvsd when she fell from NTH story
window. where she had gone for air. on
top of MollIe Colubon. III Norfolk street.
who was passing. Noble colubon bruised
scHicKEpANz. FREDERICK. -. 1919
Third avenue. The Bronx: discovered
last night by his family with a gas tube
In his mouth. He had complained OF the
heat.
SHAPIRO. ENpA. T. % Cedar street.
BROOKLYN. died at her home.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, about 80 years old
overcome in a Midland Avenhs surface
car In Brooklyn bouHd for Manhattan,
at johnson and Adams streets. Died q,
Brooklyn Hospital.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN. about 20 years old,
feet 4 inches tall. dark complexion
probably italian. colia psed while cvmIns
from Broadway Theatre, Forty~ars,
street and Broadway. and died In am.
buiance on the way to Bellevue.
The injured in accidents caused by
heat: -
Margaret Denenzie, I. az West Broad.
way. Bruised and lacerated about the
BODY by falling from third floor Are
escape at her home.
James Shaw, 81. 23l West first
street, salesman, lacerated scalp caused
by fall when overcome by heat in front
of $50 Eighth avenue