| Show I Broiling ng Heat of ot Sun in ire Cities ot of East Strikes Dozens Dead R ORD Of w DEATHS S DrA t I IN INT 1 T DAY Twenty-One Twenty Expire in NewYork New NewYorK YorK City Thousands Prostrated NEW YORK Jul July r 7 Death i.-Death Death Is ridin riding R Ron on the heels heel's of the blazing hot sun inmany in inmany inmany many eastern cities In New York alone twenty ono rono persons died in the tho twe twenty twenty- t four hours bours ending at 9 D 0 o'clock clock tl this s mornin morning Falling on the streets gasping gasping gasp gas in ing for breath in 10 the sultry stilling stifling crowded tenement districts tho the suffering suffer suffer- il tug ing of tho poor people was waa terrible last ni night lit Thousands of or prostrations carrying agony and misery with them have havo been reported in in tho the last few hours Tho The rays of tho the sun and tho stifling hot bot drafts blowing between the tho rows of tho the tall buildings 8 mado made com comfort fore out of the ques- ques tion During D rin tho the tiresome hours of ot last night which was sweltering suffocating and breathless thousands of New Yorkers York York- ers era lay on firo escapes or tossed in misery misery mis mis- ery cry on hot cots an and in in the open streets Hot Today Too The sun tun came up this morning with promise hotter than ever As early carly as 6 0 o'clock clock the tho streets blistering hot and not a breath of air was moving Thermometers on the tho street level Io re registered reg reg- S 82 degrees with a constant upward up upWard ward movement It was not until two too hours bours later that the tho weather bureau thermometer reached the 80 SO mark mark- moving moving ing upward ard by slow sta stages stages' eS' eS but from that time timo on the movement mo was more moro rapid At 9 o'clock the weather man reported 84 81 degrees but in the meantime mean mean- timo time the humidity had fallen from 78 to 73 As always tho the greatest suffering was felt in in tho the crowded tenement districts districts- Throughout the tho ni night bt resources resources' wera strained to their utmost at all aU hospitals Extra forces were called in to tn replace tho the exhausted animals which had b been eo tearing through the streets all dav day yesterday yes and last night ni bt with the heavy neavy ambulances ances and double and triple s supplies supplies sup sup- p- p plies of ice and milk were ordered to meet the unusual demand demaud oC occasioned bYth by bythe bythe th the extraordinary number of heat cases which came to the hospitals HARVEST OF DEATH IN PHILADELPHIA I PHILADELPHIA July 7 Four Four deaths and more than fifty prostrations prostration occurred in this cit city from heat between noon yesterday and 10 0 o'clock clock this morning The Tho thermometer on tho the top of tho building at 10 10 o o'clock clock registered 85 de degrees an and street thermometers registered 1 several degrees derees higher The Tl c hun at the same hour was recorded officially at nt 83 per cent NO LETUP OF 01 CHOKING HEAT IN MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON July 7 The Tho Tho hot wave which struck this city eight days a ago o continued today after a breathless and amI night t. t At 1030 o'clock the tle weather bureau instruments f registered 89 de degrees res No deaths had bad been re reported reported reported re- re ported since since yesterday ester ay Up to that hour three prostrations had been re reo re- re ported |
