Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-07-03 | Page 1 | In Philadelphia

IN PHILADELPHIA FiftyTwo Deaths and Over 300 Prostrations Pros-trations Yesterday Philadelphia July Philadelphia passed through another lierlocl of torture tor-ture and tonight many persons lie dead as a result of the days excessive beat More than 200 others were prostrated The official iceord of temperature made yes terdny 102 degrees was eclipsed otlny when time Government thermometer at 3 p j m touched 102810 degrees which now stands ns time Quaker Citys record Just as the tempciature attained these I lop figures in electrical disturbance oft to the south caused a welcome changu li Iho atmosphere Jn twenty minutes Inn temperature dropped to 05 t degrees and the wind rose i from a hoi zephyr of seven miles to a cool breeze of twenty miles an hour The temperature continued to fail and at 5 p m S3 degrees limo minimum for time day was recorded At that lime the wind had increased lo thirty miles an hour Then therft was another change and by G oclock the temperature had shot up toW to-W but Immediately after It began lo grow cooler suid a I S oclock the degrees of hent registered were 545 < 3 with an eighteenmile breeze blowlncr over the cty lTniIl tim distant atorin referred lo me > liLverl the suffering of man and beast mutton wore becoming1 serious Early In the morning the I hospllnls began reedy lug heal patients ana there WIK no surh instil titian In thai City Ihla was not taxed to Its limits throughout the day Ieator dsiyH recordbreaker in tlo way of health hud been outdone before nruin at which twontvllvc dealha had been reported to the polleo The prostrations also outnumbered out-numbered those of yesterday Up to midnight 32 deaths had been reported re-ported with over 300 prost rationa Th < < o lifts of deaths and nroslrnlions arc increased in-creased hourly aH turtluu reports are received from polioo stations and hos JIbIiH