Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-08
TWO DEATHS AND MANY
PR0sTRAT|ONS FROM HEAT
Welcome Storm Comes TO Brcak
Two-Day Spell Of Unprece-
dcnted Weather.
THERMOMETER CLIMBS TO roc
While One Degree Below Tuesday, 1t
Was With That Exception the Hot
test Day Richmond Ever Knew
Relief Is Promised.

Two people are dead. two others are
not expected to live through the night.
large number OF people are in the
I hospitals in Il critical condition and APP
/ prox!mately twenty-five additional
cases OF heat prostration have been
reported as the result OF the continued
fottest weather in RichnIond's history
Regardless OF the relief afforded by
threatened storm late las, night, ply
s!cians urge upon the public that the
utmost caution against the heat be con-
tinued. BY no means can the slight
relief afforded last night be construed
I TO mean that all danger 10 those Sc
riously affected by the heat is past.
but all safeguards for health must be
continued
NO attempt has been made to COM
p!lc an accurate lis, OF the cases Of
neat prostr9.ions To nave done so.
ana at the same time accomplish the
work OF the ambulance surgeons. would
nave been next TO Impossible All d.y
long without rest, the. continued their
work br Joseph Hinchman. CHEZ res
dent surgeon AT the Virginia Hos
gttnl. has done his best 10 keep an
accurate list of all cases of hea, pros.
trations. But the ambulance HIS becn
out all the time. No time has been
i lost FOR anything. Numerous cases are
stiil being treated and the number .of
/ heat prostrations cannot be approx
imated DR.. H!nchman last night said
! mat calls were being received from, nil
+ parts OF the city.
+ WELCOME STORM LoOsE:SS
GRIP or HEAT WAVE
ny
. cncd at a late hour last night hy
threats OF an electric storm which
brought a grateful coolncss tc TIE All
7 mosphcre surcharGcd with heat The
suspicion OF cloudiness which hopeful
scanning OF the sky had revealed in
+ he late afternoon carried with il the
promise OF rainfall! for the marched
earth and the shr!ve!ed vegetation.
Etheviile. however. is the only place
on the map for which the weather man
definitely promised rain
Reports from the United states
Weather Bureau on Chirnborazo Hin
given out at late hour last night
showed yesterdays maximum tempcra-
ture TO have been l06-only one degree
less than that OF the day before-bo,h
| record breakers
Atlantic city also came in the 100
class with maximum temperature of
/ lo4; New York. lo2: Norfolk. lo4: ok.
iahoma. i02; Pittsburgh 100: Washing
/ ton. l04
| me temperature at noon yesterday
was lo:. ard at o'clock, 1914. At s
O'Clock II had dropped to &c. but in rho
downtown sections the heat was still
stifinS from the radiation from the
paNements. Up until 1880 the onlv
reiief afforded was a small sized breeze
which slightly affected the unprece-
Gented record which Richmond ta.
maintained for three days for amor
mally high temperature.
HINDnEDS OF PEOPLE
SLEEP IN THE PARKS
hichmonders arc beginning to show
| me erect of the intense heat and lrss
OF sleep in their faces, and the babies
playing In the parks yesterday after
noon had wan and listlcss air. For
the first time this season the grass
IN Canito. Square is dead and brown
from the scorching heat and long
drought. and even the squirrels and
English sparrows have lost their GUS
tomary pep" Hundreds Of pruplc
slept in the parks Tuesday night in
vain attempt to get cool enough 10
IeSt with a. degree OF comfort.
The infant breeze succeeded i'm prc
; venting the little needle in the k;osl,
IN calMol Square from going clean
over the top during the afternoon. As
1t was, 1t slid up to ia with :he prac-
ticed ease of a professional.
| EiShty-four workers at the Nv, Ton.
plant were overcome by heat in the
last twenty-four hours. Scores OF sol.
diers Of Camp Lee were prostrated yes
t"rday.
STREET-CAR CONDUCTOR
DIES FROM BEING ovERHEATIsD
Overcome by the heat while working
on street car about 4 o'clock yes
lcrday afternoon, w. c. Wright Of
1905 Garland Avenue, Barton Heights.
died at his home at 7:45 O'CLOCK last
evening. MIR. Wright had been emnloytd
| rs conductor for many years. lie was
stricken on the car at Harrison ar;
| Clay Streets and taken home in .he
ambulance of the Virginia Hospital.
| Annie Johnson. colored. who lives In
the rear OF 107 East Main Street. lied
last night at the Virginia Hospital, rs
J the result of heat prostration. She
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