THE HEAT WAVE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 171, 30 July 1901, Page 2

THE HEAT WAVE.

TERRIBLE SUFFERING. AUCKLAND, This Day. The appended is from files 'by She San Francisco mail : — SAN FRANCISCO, July 11. All tbe United States east of the Rocky Mountains were visted by a heat wave, which grew more and more intense from abont June 24th to July 4. Ihe Buffering was pitiful, and many hundreds succumbed, while there were thousands of cases of prostration which were not fatal. In each of the great cities hundreds of I deaths from cholera infantum occurrad. The condition in New York particularly waa painful, owing to the great extent and crowded area. Ihe Police Department issued orders that men, women, and children should be permitted to sle-p on the grass in the public squares, and thousands availed themselves of the pri- 1 vilege. At three o'clock in the morning trains and electric cars out of the city were packed with people trying to escape from tbe oven which the city streets had been. More than a million people thus hurried out of the city. When the change came there were severe thundesrtorms, which caused many fires from lightning. The thermometer fell 15 degrees in two hours. The weather has since been comfortable except in the Middle and Western States.