America’s Heat Wave

Grey River Argus, 31 August 1948, Page 4

America’s Heat Wave

NEW YORK. Aug. 28. The deathroll from the stifling 100degree heat wave which has blanketed almost the entire nation for four days rose to 120 to-day and still no relief is forecast. New York State, with 23 deaths, has recorded the 1 highest number of deaths from the heat. At Charleston, in Western Virginia the temperature to-day soared to 105 degrees for the second successive day. Throughout the nation temperature recordst are being broken every hour. In New York City, council employees who had been ordered to turn off fire hydrants because of the water shortage were attacked by street bathers. One employee was taken to hospital and the rest were given police protection. The hydrants bad been turned on since the beginning of the heat wave' to allow residents of Manhattan to cool off. 173 Now Dead (Rec. 10.0) NEW YORK, Aug. 29 With the heat-wave death roll now at 173, the nation has been promised a cool change by to-morrow night. Meanwhile .almost the entire country swelters in a mass of a sticky hundred degree air that rolled up from the tropics five days ago. and broke temperature records throughout the nation. The heat wave has made heavy inroads into the nation’s water reserves, but no serious damage to crops has yet been reported.