Victims At Chicago

Chicago, Aug. 13. - ïwenty-tour persons died in Chicago Monday from the direct effects of the terrific heat. One hundred and sixty-four deaths were reporte'd to the health department. This is the heaviest list for one day siucc 1877, during the smallpox epidemie. Of these unfortunates a large number were old persons and children, who died either fro:n diseases aggravated by hot weather or frorn summer ailments. Thirty-seven were reported as dying from sunstroke, but not all of them perished Monday. ïhe Usted number of sunstroke or heat victims Monday, as stated above, was twenty-four. The listed prostrations Monday were eighty-eight, making a total for the day of deaths and prostrations of 113. A large number of letter carriers and collectors have been laid off on account of the heat, but they are not listed. All day long the hospitals were bnsy applying remedies to the victims of the heat. The clcrks, doctors, and nurses were nearly worn out with their unremitting labors. Again the residents of the tenement districts slept in the streets, exeept those who went to the parks and reposed under the trees. The breath of the Southwest wind during the day was the breath of death for Chicago. It blighted the men, women and children who were exposed to it, and horses and cattle and smaller animáis feil under its withering effect by the hundred. Xever before in the history of Chicago has the heat been so deadly to animal life, although it was several degrees less in intensity than on previous days of the present hot period. Animal life in Chicago has reached a period in its existence when it is absolutely unable to hold out longer against the heat, and an increase of a few degrees in the temperature will witness a mortality aniong the beasts that wül be frightful.