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The '''1896 Eastern North America heat wave''' was a 10-day heat wave in ], ], ] and ] that killed about 1,500 people in August of 1896.<ref name=npr>{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=The Heat Wave Of 1896 And The Rise Of Roosevelt |url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129127924&ft=1&f=1022 |quote=During the summer of 1896, a 10-day heat wave killed nearly 1,500 people, many of them tenement-dwellers, across New York City. ... |work=] |date=August 11, 2010 |accessdate=2010-08-25 }}</ref><ref name=hottime>{{cite book |author=] |coauthors= |title=Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 |year=2010 |publisher=] |page= |quote= | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=xIObQAAACAAJ&dq |isbn=0-465-01336-8 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Prostration and Death |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/785717262.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+11%2C+1896&author=&pub=Boston+Daily+Globe+(1872-1922)&desc=PROSTRATION+AND+DEATH&pqatl=google |quote=Startling List of Fatalities From the Excessive Heat. 22 Fatalities in Chicago. Maximum Temperature Was 93, and There Were 55 Prostrations Reported. 46 Deaths in New York. In Brooklyn 16 Fatalities are Reported, 10 in Hoboken, Seven in Jersey City and Four in Newark. Watch Works Closed. There Were 19 Prostrations from Heat in One Department of Big Waltham Factory Yesterday. Many Deaths in Providence. Laborers and Farm Hands Prostrated by the Heat. Work Suspended on the Public Works. One Resulted Fatally. Two Cases of Sunstroke Reported From Lawrence, Where It Was 100. One Man Dropped Dead. Two Others, Also Overcome by Heat, Died Shortly Thereafter. Total Number of Deaths 25. Four People Die at Newark During the Day. 45 Prostrated. Several More Expected. Eight Deaths at Washington During the Past Two Days. All Records Broken. Highest Temperature at Kansas City Was 96, the Lowest 81. Four Deaths in All. Two of the Victims in Baltimore Were Men and Two Women. Obliged to Stop Work. Almost Unbearable on Cape Cod. |newspaper=] |date=August 12, 1896 |accessdate=2012-03-09 }}</ref> |
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The '''1896 eastern North America heat wave''' was a 10-day heat wave in ], ], ] and ] that killed about 1,500 people in August 1896.<ref name=npr>{{cite news |title=The Heat Wave Of 1896 And The Rise Of Roosevelt |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129127924&ft=1&f=1022 |work=] |date=August 11, 2010 |accessdate=2010-08-25 }}</ref><ref name=hottime>{{cite book |author=Edward P. Kohn |author-link=Edward P. Kohn |title=Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 |year=2010 |publisher=] | url=https://archive.org/details/hottimeinoldtown0000kohn |url-access=registration |isbn=978-0-465-01336-4 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Prostration and Death |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/785717262.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+11%2C+1896&author=&pub=Boston+Daily+Globe+(1872-1922)&desc=PROSTRATION+AND+DEATH&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131155244/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/785717262.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+11,+1896&author=&pub=Boston+Daily+Globe+(1872-1922)&desc=PROSTRATION+AND+DEATH&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 31, 2013 |newspaper=] |date=August 12, 1896 |accessdate=2012-03-09 }}</ref> |
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==History== |
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There were 10 days of temperatures above {{convert|90|°F|°C|lk=on}} with 90 ].<ref>{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Visitation of August, 1896, Caused 564 Deaths in the New York City Zone |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70A10FB3C59167B93CBA91783D85F428385F9 |quote= Forty years ago, that is to say early in August, 1896, a heat wave enveloped New York and in the following ten days struck down people in the streets and filled the hospitals with casualties. As many as 564 died in the metropolitan district. |work=] |date=August 9, 1936 |accessdate=2010-08-30 | first=Henry E. | last=Armstrong}}</ref> The temperatures did not drop at night.<ref name=npr/> It caused more deaths than the ] or the ].<ref name=hottime/> |
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There were ten days of temperatures at least {{convert|90|°F|°C|lk=on}} with high ] and little breeze.<ref>{{cite news |title=Visitation of August, 1896, Caused 564 Deaths in the New York City Zone |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/08/09/archives/when-heat-waves-cost-many-lives-visitation-of-august-1896-caused.html |work=] |date=August 9, 1936 |accessdate=2010-08-30 | first=Henry E. | last=Armstrong}}</ref> The temperatures in New York did not drop below {{convert|72|°F|°C|lk=on}} at night, with three consecutive nights at {{convert|80|°F|°C|lk=on}} or above. It killed more than the ] and the ] combined.<ref name=hottime/> A majority of the deaths were of working-class men in their twenties who performed manual labor. |
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The ] ordered that his workers' shifts be modified so they would not be working during midday, and he had ]s opened to cool people on the street. ], then ], distributed free ice from local police stations. After accidental deaths from people falling off the roofs they were sleeping on, the ] allowed people to sleep in parks overnight.<ref name=npr/><ref name=hottime/> |
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