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Virginia Argus
Richmond, Virginia
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Baltimore reports unusually warm weather this season with extreme drought exhausting vegetation, followed by beneficial rains on Wednesday and Thursday. Air now moist and cooler. Increased deaths from drinking cold water. High temperatures recorded: 103°F in Newburyport on July 4, 95°F in Philadelphia on July 6, 98°F in Baltimore, 95-98°F in Hudson on July 2-3.
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BALTIMORE, July 13.
The weather has been this season much warmer than for some years past. An extreme drought has nearly exhausted vegetation. Wednesday and Thursday gave us some reviving rains, which will be of essential benefit; since then the air has been moist and cooler. The number of deaths by drinking cold water has not been equalled in former years. Scarcely a mail arriving but we receive additional accounts to swell the melancholy list of victims of imprudence. In Newburyport, Mass. on the 4th inst. in the shade the Mercury in Fahrenheit at 5 o'clock, P. M. stood at 103: In Philadelphia on the 6th it was as high as 95° at 4: In this city it stood at 98 in the shade: At Hudson, N.Y. on the 2d and 3d inst. it varied from 95 to 98.
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Baltimore
Event Date
July 13
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increased deaths by drinking cold water during heat
Event Details
Unusually warm weather with extreme drought nearly exhausting vegetation; reviving rains on Wednesday and Thursday; air now moist and cooler. High temperatures in various locations: Newburyport, Mass. 103°F on 4th inst.; Philadelphia 95°F on 6th; Baltimore 98°F; Hudson, N.Y. 95-98°F on 2d and 3d inst.