900 Heat Deaths In N. America

Northern Advocate, 13 July 1936, Page 5

900 Heat Deaths In N. America

PRAYERS FOR RAIN IN DROUGHT AREAS ! I i j [United Press Association. —By Electric j Telegraph. — Copyright .] j (Received 10 a.m.' I CHICAGO, July 11. | The total number of deaths from I heat throughout the United States j is 700, and those in Canada total 200, I of which 130 occurred in Ontario, - where all temperature records j were- broken. The first promise j of any considerable relief came j today with a forecast that a cooling wind, originating in the north Pacific, would begin to work itsway across the continent, and ' could be expected to break the 'heat wave by the middle of next week. Rains of varying intensity are also to be expected. Temperatures of 100 degrees or mere are reported from various parts of the United States and Canada today. Oklahoma, Georgia and Kentucky entered the group of States where a serious drought emergency exists. • ■ The damage from the drought in - Canada and the United States maytotal 500,000,000 dollars. From cit- A ies like New York, Chicago and Toronto come reports of continued suffering and high death and prostration rates. Seventeen people died in New r York today, making ' ’ a total of 68 in four days. Prices of grains broke sharply on the report of the impending end of the drought. aT Terrific Heat Unabated. The terrific heat from the Mississippi to the Atlantic coast is unabated. Suffering has increased in North and South Dakota. • ‘ Prayers for rain have been offered by the civic authorities at Mitchell, North Dakota, and a new appeal for aid has been sent to ' President Roosevelt by the Gov- ' ernor. Dust is blowing again in Kansas, and forest fires are raging in Wyoming, Montana and South Dakota. - In North Arizona, she&p farmers drove their flocks to railway watering stations, and paid 25 dollars a tank for water. A message from Washington says the Weather Bureau predicts a continuation of the heat, and no effective rains for the next two days. Grains Advance Sharply.

Mr Roosevelt told the Press that the Government has authorised the creation of 55,000 new jobs in the five north-western States ol# Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming, and 20,000 Works Progress Administration jobs in the two other drought regions, one in the Carolinas, Tennessee and Kentucky, and the other in Arkansas and East Oklahoma. Maize dominated the grain pits in Chicago today, advancing the maximum limit of four cents. Wheat also turned sharply up in Chicago, following the lead of Winnipeg, and coming near the five cents limit. All grains shared the advance in prices, which were among the year’s highest.