TERRIBLE HEAT WAVE.
PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. New York, July 2. Two hundred and «is>t.ty fatalities are reco ded fr'in tr'e heat in thu Stattp, of which 87occnrr.d in Groa'er New York on Monday. Ths to'-l, within this are* during the fast five •lays is 136. fcTori-e traffic is largely abandoned, ard 150 poiicemtn are on the sick list.
TBRKIBLE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS. 'Received 4, 0.20 am. New Yoke, July 3. The insufferable heat in the Unitei State?, cast of the Rocky Mountains, ccntiuus unabated. The Government w«-ather bun am consider it is likely to last a month. Tbe moriwlry list total had reached 1060 in New York up to yesterday. Though fiiemen hosed passing horses, 250 died in the streets of New York. The public cars havo stopped ; the hospital nsouic s are exhaukted, and business is at a stindst U. Millionaires nppesr in the streets epatles=, and labourers wear o&ly gymnas'.ic attire.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 137, 4 July 1901, Page 3
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153TERRIBLE HEAT WAVE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 137, 4 July 1901, Page 3
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