EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1206, 15 August 1911, Page 5

EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE.

INFANT MORTALITY. By Tclcffrarh—Press Association—Oojiyrichl Berlin, Jugust 13. Three hundred and five infants died at Leipzig during the last week through the abnormal heat. AMERICA'S SWELTERING JULY. • New York (wrote tlio "Daily Mail" correspondent on July G) has been converted temporarily into a city of pyjamaclad millions, who may be seen lolling ; distressfully at every window and balattire, vainly seeking relief from the intolerable heat which lias afflicted this country for five day 6. Tho heat wave, which the chief of the Weather Bureau at Washington, describes' as more extensive and more intense than any recorded by meteorological science during the present generation, lias already caused more than 500 deaths in th® country east of the Mississippi Valley. Every hour adds its number to the victims. Ten deaths, the correspondent continues, from heat were reported in NewYork before noon tc-day, making a total for the metropolis alone of 109, not to mention tho innumerable cases of prostration which have reduced doctors and Burses to the last stages of exhaustion. In Chicago yesterday sixty-four people succumbed to the heat, in Philadelphia twenty-nine. Similar tales of mortality are published from a score of towns.. The streets ar6 littered with exhausted horses.

To-day, concludes the dispatch, the official thermometer of the New York Weather Department registers only 93deg. but, as the thermometer is situated on tho Alpine heights of a skyscraper, it gives only a faint indication of the sufferings of the populace, which is working in an atmosphere of lOOdeg.. Mauy establishments havo temporarily suspended operations, and allowed their clerks and other employees to remain at homo or attempt to alleviate their condition at the seashore. Trains, however, are more uncomfortable than offices, and this morning,after a short congestion of traffic on tho underground railway many passengers fainted, and had to be lifted on to tho platform.