File:1896 Eastern North America heat wave in the Chicago Tribune of Chicago, Illinois on 11 August 1896, part 1.jpg

Death In The Heat. Nearly Two Hundred Are Killed in New York. Crazed With The Heat. Mobs Run the City and Break Hydrants. Streets Fill With Water. Half Dressed People Wallow in the City Gutters. Over Five Hundred Prostrated. New York. August 10, 1896. Special. It was another scorching day, and 188 people were killed by the heat in Greater New York and in the dense New Jersey population that borders on the west shore of the East River. This terrible mortality was not entirely ilue ih heat of the day. It was due to the terrific heat that has scourged this vicinity during the last six days, and which seemed to culminate in all its fury today. The death list for New York City alone today aggregated eighty-two, and it is certain that all the names were not r ported to the authorities. No one will ever know the number or prostrations caused by the sun's cruel rays. The hospitals in New York are full. In New York City alone the number of the prostrated exceed -"0. It is believed, and in the territory of Greater New York, with Jersey City and Hoboken added. It is confidently believed the aggregate will pass Men dropped dead. Others were stricken suddenly and so remorselessly that death followed within a few hours. Many of those whose lives were saved by prompt treatment in the hospitals will never be really well again. A policeman fell dead while getting a glass of water for a prostrated woman. Another dropped at his post on Allen street. A third died in a hospital tonight. A fireman fell while crossing the street. A workman on a high building was sunstruck and reeled to the ground dead. Businessmen were stricken in their offices. Women fell to the floor while shopping. A driver fell off the seat of his truck dead. All sorts and conditions of men are among the victims. Hospital doctors and nurses gave out from exhaustion, and volunteers took their places. Ambulances could not answer all the calls. At Bellevue they utilized supply wagons arid even the morgue dead wagon to bring in the victims of the heat. A demand was made on the police department for assistance. The patrol wagons were pressed into service as ambulances. Break Open the Hydrants. Gangs of men went through the East Side tonight opening every hydrant. From Houston to Division street, east of the Bowery, very street was filled with running water. Half-naked men and women plunged into the hydrant streams. Children lay in the water in the gutters. -. The official heat record was M. with 65 percentage of humidity. The hot wave has swept the whole country. No relief is in tight for tomorrow save in the temporary cooling off which will follow a possible thunder shower. Worse than an epidemic in its daily list of Victims and the dread it is beginning to inspire is the awful heat wave which holds this city in its grasp. The official list of death prostrations gathered by the police gives no idea of the terrible suffering existing in all parts of New York. The police do not hear of one. case out of ter. The hospital records come nowhere nor representing the victims of the sun who are being cared for at home and by friends. The death list grows day by day. Six were reported on Friday. Sixteen was Saturday's total. Sixty-two deaths occurred in Brooklyn and New York on Sunday. More than this number were reported in New York alone today. Prostrations on All Sides. The police and the hospitals cared for 130 cases of heat prostration, many of which undoubtedly will prove fatal. Women and men dropped like logs under the blighting Bun all over the city today and tonight, and t tEiIy ra' f comfort in the awful mor-1.7., Ist is the comparative exemption of little children. Chinamen have so far escaped. Few little ones and not a single Mongolian had been killed by the heat up to the trA ot the sixth day of suffering. Thousands of men and women are sleeping cn roofs and fire-escapes, on the sidewalks M piers tonight with upturned faces, hop-t!iva shower or or some relief from the -.vut. ciiieSS 11 mme-v. rn w-- t,-;ii - ".i' -iC 111 general shutdown rf hiwin6e ? be --ujr me laborers in the cit v s emni ten told to stop work hi. each day at 11 o'clock "EL. tow I'ETER. ' " p.f- WILLIAM f r-.L-.NK CHARLES MEN CavitV'aNK. QLPv . ALLEN HlfShJ' MRS. A JTULEHAEL. tXnl the oIlr"nn -ho fell at to??r.? dUt' t0flay are: Jan fcon and Edward Klein. Another victim was Edward Mav, Prevj-centMount Electric Mf " cS'f, he at' an l in many cases tht ir "passes he where they fell. y thaa,SeVenty"five ma,i dS5 were shot foiK CnIWren crawled into the fcited k .2 e parks anrl remained unmo-lh,. PHce- Thousands visited the It ic ! nd Plunsei "-to the surf. tUtlvl WOSt fParfuI ourge of weather 1-"ercame upon New York. The Head. f2!0Tv:n is an incomplete list of t hose ....-T7. 13 w.iiu aaue.i tn nemriv I'Ll'MF, HIED, riT.M.X. THMA J., SCHMIDT. WILLIAM. Mil!. PAULINE, FARRELL. MARY. KLANDKK.S. JAMES. TAH-.H. FREI'KRICK. tiAP.GAP.rd. HAS?.. MAY. EDWARD. HOSSKXL.OPP. B.. DARI.1X;. FRED. FN KNOWN' MAN. I'NKNOWX MAN. JI AK1I X. LI. A ." K S. A M E LTO. P.VRNKS. THOMAS, K INNER. J. D., HAVGHKY. J. F-. STflXEXPER. F. H.. NL'SENT. MICHAEL, Moihxnald, r. CRoWLEY. CATHERINE. FN KNOWN WOMAN. FN KNOWN MAN, FNKNOWN MAN. PRIOR. CHAR I.E5, PEN'S LATE. HENRY. HOFFMAN. CHARLES. STROXd. WILLIAM. FHL. KATE. LKMONT. THOMAS. K EXXON. ALTHEI S. SHKIR. CONRAD. KKXXEY. THOMAS. KITZENPORK. C. HENXTXt. JACOB. Mf 'ARRIEN. P.. M E N TUN , PATRIC K.

• BRANDT, SOPHIA.
• HIGGINS, MARTIN.
• MAHR, JACOB.
• STRASSER, APOLPH.
• THELENS, THOMAS.
• FOUR NEGROES. PTFPERICH. HENRY. E.NS. JFLIT S. OWN MAN. SOI.PANS. OTTO. PETTIER EW. M. FENKLEP. JOHN. KANE. WTI.LIAM. PEI.OF. MISHATO. HIXTLEY. CHAS. ROSENCRANZ. CHAS. CT'SACK. DAVID. MHt"GH. JOHN. FX KNOWN MAN. A. Br S?4f5EJH5- POJHOMAS. THOMAS? (Continued on fifth page.)

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