HEAT WAVE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1528, 9 August 1905, Page 4

HEAT WAVE.

MANY DEATH 3 IN NEW YORK.

(Per R.M.S. Sierra at Auckland.), Now York, July 18. An era of oppressive heat that brings to mind with unpleasant vivldDces t, bo recordbrosking summer of 1901 has Bottlod down ovor the Eastern and Now England States, already numbering hundreds nrnong its victims, ana causing indescribable •suffering to thousands in this and other cities. To-day, all rooords for the summer were broken in point of high temperaturo, but mercifully the humidity was correspondingly less. Only for this the total prostrations and dontbs must havo been doublod. In New York the suffering wafl intense, especially in the oiowdod tenement districts, whore scarcely a breath of air reliovod tbo stifling atmosphere. It was a busy day for the hospitals, and ambulauoes woro continually on tbo streets. Jake Cooke, keeper ot tho Monkoy House Control Park, famous as elephant trainor, and tho idol of tho children who frequent tho Zoo, was among to-day’s victims.

New York, July 19. Tho cumulative effect of tho continued torridity of tbeso days was painfully evident in an onormous increase of iho number of deaths in New York. While tbe douth-ioll of yesterday was only 2G, that of to-day reached the appalling total of 75, being nearly half of those Prostrated. This was almost entiroly due to tho collapse of young children and Bf el peopl’o whoso exhausted vitality was unequal to tbo strain of further sufforiug. At 3 o’clock in tbe afternoon oaran the long-proyed-for relief, when a terrific thunderstorm and a delugo of rain burst ovor Brooklyn and tho lower part of Manhattan and sections of New Jersey. In Brooklyn two men were struck by light ning and seriously hurt, and in Jersey City ono man was killed. While tbe storm luttad only a few minutes and loft tho uppor part of the city untouobod, the ro--1 tf was almost instantaucous, and from then on tlio mercury fell steadily, and a cool breeze springing up after sundown gavo assuranoe of a comfortable nighr.