HEAT WAVE.
WORKS CLOSED DOWN—MEN PROSTRATED. THOUSANDS SLEEPING OUT OF DOORS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Nov/ York, July % Tho temperature was at 98 in the shado in New York on Sunday. Nineteen deaths occurred in the city and eleven in Pittsburg as the result of tho heat. The temperature at New York is at 103 in the shade. _ Many works at Philadelphia and Pittaburg have been closed, the men being prostrated with the heat.
Thousands of people arc sleeping in tho docks and parks. The atmosphore indoors is unbearable.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 147, 3 July 1901, Page 2
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