The New York herald., 1921-07-09
HEATS DEATH TOLL
over ADOZEN, With
SCORE FRUSTRATED
Official Temperature Close
to 80, but Street Observers
Report Bulb lowering
Around 100 Degrees.
10 DROWNINGS LISTED
Beaches, Parks, Piers, Play
grounds Thronged With
Persons Seeking Relief
From Sitting Air.
CONEY A REFUGEE CAMP
Woman Tries Suicide Off Bat
terry Sea Wall-Body of Chi
nese Is Found Floating
in Bronx River.
CONEY A REFUGEE CAMP

More than score of persons in and
about New York were overcome yes
terday. and at least twelve lost their
lives from drowning and other accl-
dents indirectly due to the heat. The
second day of the city's second hot
smell of the season, while not the hot
test. was certainly the most uncom-
Portable so far this summer.
At midnight the temperature. which
was SO degrees at O'Clock, had
dropped TO S2 degrees. The Weather
Bureau offered no promise Of relief for
the next sorty-eight hours. Probable
thunder showers to-day, fair to-mor-
row with moderate south winds and
no change in temperature was the
prediction.
Although SO degrees was the onclai
record for the day. it was registered IN
the comparatively cool tower OF the
Whitehall Building, 800 feet above the
steaming sidewalks Of lower Broad
way. In the street the mercury rose
to 95 and 100 degrees in the shade.
The unusual number of prostrations
was due probably to the prolonged
heat wave the weather forecaster said.
The beaches. parks. piers and play
grounds were thronged throughout the
day. and thousands abandoned their BEDS
to sleep In the open Mayor Hyian
wrote TO the recreation committee 10
throw omen the piers to the public and
a keep off the grass sfgs1s were disre-
garded At midnight Central Park
looked like a refugee camp. and the
sands at Coney Island, Brighton and
Rockaway beaches also were crowded
with seepers.
Drowninus Are Numerous.
with hundreds of thousands seeking
the water for relief drownings were In
evitab,o. At midnight the number re-
ported was ten.
John Keaney, years old s46 Glen
more avenue. Brooklyn. was drowned
while IN swimming of n float In Jamaica
Bay at the foot of Crescent street
Henry Bethon. 10. gsl1 Evergreen
avenue Rdgewood. vas drowned In
Ridgewood Reservoir.
Two brothers, John and Desmond
O'Connor, were drowned at Manhattan
Beach at a point not far from the batn-
ing pavilion. They had gone with their
family to camp on the beach during the
heat wave. One OF the bodies was re-
covered last night.
Two Brooklyn boys who went camp
ing over the Fourth at Bear Mountain
were drowned In the lake. They are
Edward Benjamin, Il. of 479 Pennsyl-
vania avenue, n student at Manual
Training High School and Joseph b.
Bodarkie. II, of 473 Pennsylvania ave-
nue., who has attended Boys High
School Brooklyn.
Seth Shepard OF Washington. a son
Of former Chief Justice Shepard of the
District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
was drowned in the Mystic River at
Noank. Conn. near New London. He
was working on board his yacht when he
was attacked by heart disease and fell
into the river
Two drownings were reported from
the Ponaransett Reservoir In Connecti-
cut Mildred Capron. 10 years old. and
her mother of Oncco. Conn. went be-
yond their depth and were drowned
before :her bathers could rescue them.
A woman describing herself as Lizzie
Carroll. %, of 141 Madison street. at
tempted suicide by drowning She
tum-ed from the Battery Sea Wall into
the Bay.
Lieut.. Thomas Foley and Fireman
Charles Turbett of Engine 81 on duty
aboard the fireboat George b. McClel-
len at the Battery. jumped into the
water and dragged her out.
Two Bodies Are Recovered.
The police recovered the bodies OF two
drowned persons during the day. One
was woman identified rs Mary
Thompson. an inmate OF the City Hos
pital on Blackwells Island.
The other body was an unidentified
Chinese. found floating in the Bronx
River near the Lorllard estate by three
boys
One death from heat prostration and
several persons overcome were reported
10 the police In Newark. The victim
was Thomas McElhose. so years old, OF
2s6 Washington street.
Edward Sinott, 81, Of 119 Ninth ave-
nue.. went to the roof 10 sleep yesterday
and made his bed close to the edge
After falling asleep he rolled over and
dropped TO the courtyard below. DR.
ogden Of New York Hospital, summoned
by neighbors. pronounced Slnnott dead.
Heat prostrations Increased as the
mercury rose. Ambulances were kept
busy throughout the city The tempera-
ture was SO degrees at O'Clock The
humidity. whicn had been as high as SS
early in the day. declined by midafter-
noon to 60. At s o'clock II was ascend
ing again. and the temperature remained
the same.