The Weather | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 28, 1868

The Weather.

The steady heat of the month past has been extraordinary and unprecedented. Deaths by “sun stroke” were of daily occurrence; as the harvest work was hurried on by the hot, dry weather, instances of prostration by heat occurred in almost every neighborhood. As the cases reported are mostly in the cities; but a small portion of the whole amount are heard of. The deaths from this cause amount to a great number, while the cases of prostration and recovery are still more numerous. The thermometer stood as high as 100° in Canada, and 108° in the Western States; private letters say still higher in some localities: from 96° to 100° was common. The following are a sample of the daily despatches during the “the heated term,” as it was called:

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 14. Twenty laborers on the Vincennes road, near this city, were stricken down with sun-stroke to-day.

MILWAUKEE, July 14. To-day has been the hottest day of the season. Mercury, 100. Several cases of sun-stroke are reported.

WASHINGTON, July 14. The hot term has now continued twenty-two days, a length of time almost unprecedented in this latitude. To-day is the most severe of the season, the mercury standing at 103 in the shade, and standing above 95 for nearly ten hours.

NEW YORK, July 14. The heat to-day was again intense; thermometer 96. Forty-seven cases of sun-stroke have been reported the last two days, many fatal.

Despatches from all parts of the East state that the thermometer to-day varied from 96 to 106, in many places the hottest of the season.

Four deaths by sun-stroke occurred at Providence. There were many cases in Burlington, Vermont, and surrounding towns, and two deaths occurred.

ST. LOUIS, July 14. To-day has been the hottest of the season, the mercury standing at over 100 in the shade, several hours. Fourteen cases of sun-stroke are reported since Sunday, most of them fatal.

TORONTO, July 14. Heat intense. Thermometer, 100. Several cases of sun-stroke, one fatal.

MONTREAL, July 14. The hottest day of the season. Thermometer, 98. Several deaths from sun-stroke.

MARENGO, Iowa, July 14. The weather is the hottest ever known. The mercury touched 108 degrees yesterday in the shade. To-day bids fair to be still hotter.