Show O 0 startling Start lini 6 reports I 1 from every part OF THE COUNTRY J disclosing an ail atmospheric condition NOT KNOWN BEFORE cormany For Many years and death adeath hate heretofore EQUALED in th the street from son sun 3 stroke Crow Crowd di ilig tho the hospitals by wesen press pre to th HERALD CHICAGO july 17 the hot weather of saturday was intensified today to day dav and there was much suffering throughout the city from 7 a in until 1 p in the mercury ranged from 00 90 to the records of the police department for to today day show that not less 1 than forty five persons were stricken don dom n eighteen have already died saturday the lift was appalling the total number of cases cared for by y the tile police department alone v was as over one hundred thirty have proved fatal when a complete record ie Is made it willbe will unprecedented in the history of the city such a degree of heat has not been experienced in this city for thirty years at 11 tonight to night the labeet returns show that sixty two persons have died either in ili or on tho the wit way y to various hospitals in the city since saturday morning these deaths were ail the direct result of sunstroke pun stroke or heat beat prostration A number of patients in the hospitals are in a state of coma tonight to night 1 physicians 11 I 1 sic ians consider tit their air cabes cases ho hopeless less at lie the county count hospital I 1 spital physicians physic PC ans and nurses have been n working almost m o unceasingly tor for thirty six hours TI the to crush far exceeds that following the haymarket not A A fir special from galesburg says rays the lipat for the pait six dar dibi s has averaged degrees today it readied four deaths occurred yesterday and two today to day an inter ocein special from chenoa ills says the thermometer today da registered felid in the shade at 3 p in TE this hot spell eh has been without a parallel for six days the mercury has ranged above to at 8 30 it is 94 91 K fatal prostration are reported A orivs A far pekin ills special sas says four deaths occurred in t this ais cit city v and vicinity today to day caused by the intense heat which registered in the shade the hodet on record Z sunday 1 urt I 1 with a single exception jul july y sir ath 1876 to day lias has been ill the 0 poteet for over thirty years at 2 this afternoon the tile thermometer it registered degress in in lie the shade liebing bel nw just J alls t one degree re less than that of july july esth 76 and one and a quarter quart ci degree gre greater ter than yesterday up to a late hour tonight about SO 20 cases of sunstroke w mere ere reported of which resulted fatally ST lons loris july 17 this city was visited with another day of torrid lie libat at and the suffering ring was very great the thermometer street record registered in the shade and eleven fatal cases of sunstroke and fifteen eions were era reported the warm breeze continue ft and andio tomorrow to morrow promises still more oppressive heat beat INMA july heat was intense here today to baythe day the maximum by y the signal service thermometer being 4 10 a record I 1 which aich has not a been n equaled since sineW July uly 1831 1981 four V our casca cases of prostration hoo lime occurred two of N which NI will ill result fatally |