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From: Chris Hendrickson <>
Subject: [Bklyn] Brooklyn Standard Union July 10, 1929 - News
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 14:09:18 -0400


Brooklyn Standard Union July 10, 1929 News

COOL BREEZES EASE TORTURE OF HEAT WAVE

Thunder Storms Forecast and Drop in Temperature by To-morrow

A mild but cooling breeze eased Brooklyn through the sixth morning of
the heat wave to-day despite an ominous thermometer, which started off
at 76, a degree ahead of its performance yesterday.

Thunder showers are being held ready for afternoon and evening, the
Weather Bureau advises, and cooler weather is on the way for to-morrow.

Yesterdays sultry humid air blanket caused four more deaths in Brooklyn
and two in Manhattan. Three other persons were drowned. Twenty-two
prostrations were added to the heavy casualty list of the week.

As usual, the miles of beach at Coney Island were burdened with sleepers
last night, while extra police remained on duty to keep a lookout for
pickpockets. Refrigerated theatres have been jammed daily since the heat
blanket first descended on the Atlantic Seaboard.

Six Heat Deaths
Samuel ROSENTHAL, 50, of 251 McKibben street, fell dead after
complaining of the hear. He was employed as a vest maker by Samuel
ADVOCAT of 55 Great Jones street, Manhattan.

Harry MCKAY, 35, of 406 Sixteenth street collapsed outside of the office
of the Sutherland Forwarding Company, at 41 Henry street, where he was
employed. He died a short time later.

Michael GUTCHAK, 56, of 616 East Seventeenth street, Manhattan,
collapsed while at work in the shoe factory of G. VOLLBRACHT, at 239
Canal street, Manhattan. He died before medical aid could be summoned.

William FITTERMAN, captain of the barge Rough Rider, was found dead in
his bunk. The barge was moored at Thirty-seventh street, Manhattan, and
the East River. Police said heat had caused his death.

Maurice CONNELLY, 42, of 40 Cornelia street, collapsed in a wash room in
the plant of the American Sugar Refining Company at South Fifth street
and Kent avenue, where he was employed, and died.

William BRENNAN, 61, of 63 Broadway, this borough, was found dead in his
bed.

Three are Drowned
Cornelius VAN KEMPEN, 25, a dishwasher employed in the summer home of
the Hospital for Joint Diseases was drowned in Jamaica Bay off Mott
avenue. His body was found near shore an hour later.

Henry MUSURILLO, Jr., 21, of 29 Catherine street, Manhattan, was seized
with a cramp while swimming in Swarzwood Lake, near Newton N.J. He
disappeared before his friend Thomas CASTRONOVA, of 187 Madison street,
Manhattan, could reach him.

The body of an unidentified Negro boy about 16 years old was found in
the Hudson off Ninety-seventh street by Patrolman George MULRICH. The
boy was wearing black trunks.

Twenty-two Overcome
Two women and three men were prostrated in this borough.

Mrs. Elvira GRANATA, 20, of 685 ½ Sixth avenue, fainted near the main
entrance to the Municipal Bathhouse at Coney Island. She was sent to
Coney Island Hospital.

Vera FRIEDMAN, 24, of 95 Clymer street, collapsed at Nostrand and
flushing avenues. She was sent home.

Alfred CHRISTOPHER, 65, of 10 Tillary street, was sent to Cumberland
Hospital following his collapse at Tillary and Bridge streets.

David KERNAN, 16, of 1600 Williams avenue, was overcome in a cinema
palace. He was sent home.

Matthew SAMNON, 22, of 640 Ninetieth street, was treated at his home by
an ambulance surgeon.

Leon ABRAMOWITZ, 29, of 28 Beach Fifty-eighth street, Arverne, collapsed
at Fulton street and Flatbush avenue. He was sent to Cumberland Hospital.

Adeline BULLENKAMP, 50, of 159 West 103rd street, fell on the steps of
Jefferson Market court and was sent to St. Vincents.

Mary GLENN was overcome in the kitchen of an Alice Foote MacDougal
restaurant at 6 West Forty-sixth street Manhattan. She was sent home
(121 West 144th street, Manhattan).

Henry HIRSCHBERG, of 1410 Grand View avenue, Far Rockaway, was sent to
Bellevue after he had been overcome at 31 East Twenty-eighth street,
Manhattan.


Transcribed for the Brooklyn Info Pages by Chris Hendrickson
Researching: Dignan, Hendrickson, Silkenstadt, Strathmann, Soper, Zorn

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