A HEAT WAVE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 8 June 1925, Page 9

A HEAT WAVE.

AMERICA SWELTERING. MANY DEATHS REPORTED. i (BT CABLX—PBIS3 ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT.) (Sidney "Stm" Sravicz.) (Received June 7th, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 6. The terrific heat wave which has oppressed the eastern half of the United States for sir days, has been broken in Pennsylvania, where a rainstorm brought a decrease of fifteen degrees in the temperature in two hours. The same relief is predicted in other sections within* forty-eight hours, but most parts, including New York, are expected to continue to swelter for a day and a half. There have been more deaths, three hundred being the latest estimate. Over a hundred have been recorded in the past twenty-four hours, thirty-one boing in New York City, where the official temperature is 97 degrees. In Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and elsewhere over 100 degrees have been registered.

Scenes of indescribable suffering are being witnessed in the tenement districts, sleepless victims crowding the parks, fire escapes, and roofs in search of relief. In other sections the authorities, fearing a water famine, are arresting anyone sprinkling lawnsl Curious features of the heat wave include the derailment of a train, fortunately without casualties, in Newark, New Jersey, due to expansion of the rails, while the sun fried an egg in eight minutes on a Cleveland pavement. Chicago reports that the death list, a3 a result of the heat wave and accompanying storms, stood at 238 this morning. Ninety-eight deaths were reported yesterday.

It is the most disastrous June heat wave in the history of the Weather Bureau. Soaring temperatures, with low humidity, have lasted five days and no relief is in sight. Mills havo been closed in New England, and the schools in the various cities, besides numerous Government and other offices. Great anxiety is felt lest forests should bo burned and crops worth millions of dollars destroyed. This has been predicted unless rain ccmes soon.

FATALITIES IN LONDON. (Received June 7th, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 7. There were four deaths from heat in London as a climax to the loveliest spring for years.