HEAT WAVE IN AMERICA
TWENTY-ONE DEATHS CAUSED
PEOPLE SLEEPING IN PARKS.
(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 21. A heat wave is being experienced throughout the TJnited States, the temperature in New York rising to 95 degrees. Already twenty-one deaths due to heat apoplexy have been reported. In meny cities the parks have been i opened, and the people are elceping out iin the open to escape the suffocating heat indoors. In Connecticut to-day the thermometer reached the record level of 101 .degrees.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 22 June 1923, Page 5
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