New-York tribune., 1918-08-07
Scores Frustrated on Hot
test August 6 in Weather
Bureaus History
5leepers Crowd
Parks and Beaches
No Relief Promised by the
Forecaster for Next
Twenty-four Hours

Heat records for August during the
last thirtythree years were broken
yesterday in rising wave of tempera-
ture which claimed nine lives and
caused scores of prostrations in New
York and vicinity. No relief is prom
ised for the next twenty-four hours.
The mercury, which hovered at the
S2.degree mark at o'clock in the
morning, mounted to SO at 8 in the
afternoon. The average temperature
up to II .. m. was Sc degrees, as COM
pared with "a for the same day last
year and an average of 73 recorded
during the thirty three year period of
Weather Bureau observation.
By mid afternoon the neighborine
beaches and resorts were jammed by
the greatest weekday crowds of the
summer. Suburban trains and excur-
sion steamers were taxed to capacity
and on one of the Coney Island lines
the service came dangerously near
breaking down.
Police Surgeons Kept Busy
approximately 250,O0O people passed
through the turnstiles at Coney Island
during the day and evening. These for
the greater part were women and chill
dren. Police surgeons were kept busy
until late hour caring for patients
who had been overcome in the crowds
that mllled and fought all day around
sne platforms of the subway and ele-
waited terminals. The police picked up
two hundred children who had been
Separated from their mothers.
Thousands of people slept in their
bathing suits at the beaches last night.
ano the city parks were nearly as
crowded with scantily clad apartment
ana tenement dwellers. Many drown
iings were reported. Two men were
Killed by rolling off tenement fire es-
eapes.
The dead:
John Tienonuto, Is Oak Street;
sought relief by sleeping on fourth
@ aoof hre escape and fell to the side
w YAK while asleep; died at Voluntee r
ATTSpilsl from internal injuries.
lhomas Is. German, 1873 Third ave
aue; overcome by heat on the Third
az assnue IL" and died before medical
AI could be summoned.
.. .eer komie, fifty years old; pros
sano ss.eo and died at his nome, 3O5 East
Seventy-hfth Street.
tLoward B. jerks, dock builder. 143
Inaa I+Oe.'y street; died from heat on a
s"ra .vng island train on the way to his
'1pmer inner nome at Quogue.
M, .fpate p Hines, Company 10, 152d De-
c. brigade, Camp Upton; died at
.o, .r.senpoint Hospital after being over
W., W.. On the sidewalk at Jackson and
"IIihoo!dt streets, Brooklyn.
onsu suseph Mckenna, travelling crane
ors,s'of' arsa overcome and fell against an
spsa. spsn switch in the Public Service
eu,ed ic was electro-
Nelson Paperman 21s East Ninety
srd ,,i'n i: street; succumbed to the heat
s lns S,ea at City Hospital after a box
Riehi" r. oout toa IN Jersey City with Victor
John Calvin, fifteen MOI, months old
SS.V,sitrated and died at his home 12q
DIv.lc r. Street. Brooklyn.
Eugene Esposito, 29z Hamilton Ave-
,eco,a aa@lai!y injured in a fall from the
oeory hre escape of his home.
Many Ambulance Calls
xs,a s.s'nG1ulanccs throughout the city
oas Hept busy caring for the numer-
s,n, pl9stration cases. Many persons
hurveo on the streets and frequent
IA calls we're received from office
tsaa iols buildings where employees had
NO.. overcome at their work. The At
and adIpnere n the subways was sitting.
cvs,o .ne X and surface lines were
t.s.o"ded all day by thousands OF
H., i'lt"ReTs who preferred to travel A
II ,s soa'cHs out Of their way and remain
.he open air
.''"uH seeking relief under the
sxss al Battery Park were driven
,is py the police. Protests brought
issn.n n'ofnatlon that orders had been
tls.sa Dy some one to keep the lawns
ss,e Inc park is to be torn up in
10, - weeks, when ground is broken
nhi.nc tnc new Federal buildings. The
Njs we're reminded frequently Of
r, "ut me crowds were kept moving.
ter, pubic bathnouscs at the Bat
sssl, were invaded by long Iines of
fo,nsHng people, many of whom were
tai I" wait hours before gaining
81 turn In the water. A time lin Il
ksas s"ehty minutes was placed on the
siy" and they we're then forced 10
''' space 10 others.
Jam on Is. X. T.
ns"i'ar conditions prevailed at the
k,,.@"ay ~. and other beaches. With the
k4s appearance Of the gun the rush
5zsssh,' !" the sea. BY noon all the
nss n''%asez rz we're doing a capacity busi
sse 'feat numbcrs Of people braycd
,ohg trip from the city, only TO find
., .aap'ssib!e 70 obtain bathing suits
n. Asssommodation in the houses. At
IA %unhc'pal Beach at Concy Island
ie" other of the more popular
1"ntinmed on last puge
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