HEAT WAVE IN AMERICA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19500, 8 June 1925, Page 7

HEAT WAVE IN AMERICA

CROWING TOLL OF VICTIMS TEMPERATURE RECORDS BROKEN. Press Association —By Telegraph—CopyrightNEW YORK, June o'. (Received June 6, at 5.5 p.m.) The most disastrous June heat wave in the history of the Weather Bureau lias now taken 112 lives. Soaring temperatures with low humidity have lasted for five days, and no sign of relief is in sight. Forty-four deaths have been attributed to the heat during the past 24 hours. Temperature records everywhere have been broken, including New York, 95 degrees, Washington 99 degrees, Elmira (New York State) 101 degrees, Hagerstown (Maryland) 102 degrees. The mills have been closed in New England, the schools in various cities, and numerous Government and other offices. Great anxiety is felt lest the forests should be burned and crops worth millions of dollars destroyed, which was predicted unless rain soon tell. —A. and N.Z. Cable. SUFFERINGS OF TENEMENT DWELLERS. WAVE BREAKS IN PENNSYLVANIA. NEW YORK, June 5. (Received June 7, at. 5.5 p.m.) The terrific heat wave which has oppressed the eastern half of the United States for six days'has broken in Pennsylvania, where a- rainstorm brought a decrease of IS degrees in temperature in two hours. Similar relief-is predicted in other sections within 48 hours, but most parts, including New York, are expected to continue to swelter for a day and There have been more deaths, 300 being the latest, estimate. Over 100 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours, o which 31 were in New York city, where the temperature is given officially as 97 degrees. - In Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and elsewhere temperatures of over iOO degrees were registered. Scenes of indescribable suffering were witnessed in the tenement districts, the , sleepless victims crowding the parks, fire escapes and roofs- in seach of relief, iii other sections the authorities, fearing » water famine, are arresting anyone sprinkling lawns. Curious features of the heat wave include the derailment of a train, fortunately without casualties, in Newark (New J ersey) owing to the expansion of die rails. The sun fried an egg in’, eight minutes on a Cleveland pavement.—Sydney Sun Cable. . DEATH ROLL IN CHICAGO. OVER TWO HUNDRED VICTIMS. NEW YORK, June 6. (Received Juno 7, at 5.5 p.m.) Chicago reports that the death list resulting from the heat wave and the accompanying storms stood at 238 this morning. Ninety-eight deaths were reported yesterday.—’Reuter. LONDON’S EXPERIENCE. FOUR DEATHS REPORTED. LONDON. June. 7. (Received June 7, at 11.5 p.m.) There were four deaths from heat in London as a climax to the lovliest spring. —A. and N.Z. Cable.