HEAT CAUSES DEATH IN NEW YORK

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 149, 12 July 1937, Page 5

HEAT CAUSES DEATH IN NEW YORK

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— * ^ « People Skep on Beaches And In Parks EXPECTED TO C0NTINUE

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(Received 12, U.O a.m.) NEW YORK, July 11. The fifth successive 4fiy of intense beat brought widespread suffering and death to tho Uixited S^ates, with no prospect of relief. Forecasts indicate, a continuance of excessive heat for at least aupther week with only brief respites due to rain showers. Although deaths directly dua to heat have Ifcot mouuted far ab.out 150a fataiities resulting from drowuing and other accidents atfributahle to the weather numhered nTany hundreds. The suffering is particularly acute ib New- York where 35 deaths owing ta the heat have heen recorded duriug the past four days. More than 7000 peraons slept overnight on the beach at Coney Island Seeking relief thousands of others slept on the benches and the grass in city parks. The week-end found the city virtually deserted, millions fieeing into the country The water is so hot that at one bathing pool the patrons complained, eausing the management to use huge cakes oi ice to create an Arctic at* mosphere. Sprinkler trucks sprayed the streets, affording temporary relief. Children in bathing snits ran alongside the trucks fighting for a place under the sprays.