A Hot Wave. MANY DEATHS FROM SUNSTROKE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 217, 27 August 1887, Page 7

A Hot Wave. MANY DEATHS FROM SUNSTROKE.

Despatches of July 16th report*: Intensely hot weather throughout the Northwest continues, the mercury ranging between do degrees and 105 degree^ Four death? here from sunstroke this morning. At Cincinnati there were a number of prostrations from heat among exposed labourers and others. There were four deaths on the loth, and four more deaths were reported on the 16th. Many labourers have given up work on account of the great heat. At Pittsburg the mercury wad 97 degrees at 2 p.m. Two iatal cases of sunstroke and a number of seiious prostrations trom heat are reported. The iron and steel mills were compelled to clo^e during the day. Similar report were received from other cities, nearly all of them reporting it the hottest day of the year, and some the hottest for many years : New York, 09 degrees : Washington, 93.\ ; Philadelphia, 98 ; Baltimore, 100; Wilmington, Del.. 100; Richmond, Va., 104; Winchester, Pa., 102; Troy, N.Y.,05. At Milwaukee, twenty cases of sunstroke were reported at the central police station. Of this number three were fatal, the victims either being found dead on the streets or dying in the patrol waggon. The day was the hottest ever known in Milwaukee, the thermometer reaching 100 degree?. At Cincinnati horses began to fall in the streets. .Sixteen persons were prostrated with heat in public places, making altogether twenty -eight prostrations and eleven deaths. The Signal .Station thermometer legistered 96.7 degrees maximum, which means from 100 to JO2 degrees on the sidewalk. At Chicago, theie were no less than 1-iO case 3 of prostiation, in which it was thought that no less than thirty will result fatally. The temperature remained above 90 until midnight, something without precedent in Chicago.