UNRELENTING HEAT
TERRIBLE TOLL AMERICAN MIDDLE WEST DEATHS NOW NUMBER 1100. SUFFERING CATTLE ..SHOT., ; (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 0 a.m.) • NEW YORK, July 26. The toll of deaths, and damage as the result of the heat' wave in' tho Middle West 'States continued /to mount today. -The fatalities -llave now increased to 1100, Wind and rain offered slight relief during the day. Cowboy firing sqnqads in Texas are shooting cattle at a' rate of more than 1000 a day to end .anintals’; torture from thirst and starvation.'•'■■'Mole than 61,000 alre’ady have’ been and it is feared that it may be necessary, owing to the drought,'- 1 to .destroy 400,000 of the State’s herd ;of 7,000,000 beef and dairy cattle. ,V : . ,
One-third of the nation’s counties are receiving drought . relief... . ; "
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Northern Advocate, 28 July 1934, Page 9
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131UNRELENTING HEAT Northern Advocate, 28 July 1934, Page 9
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