U.S.A. HEAT WAVE

Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1931, Page 5

U.S.A. HEAT WAVE

ended at last,

766 LIVES LOST,

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, July 1. The heat wave has caused no fewer than 766 deaths throughout th e nation befone it has broken. To-night it was brought to an end by, low atmospheric pressure over the ■Great Plains region, to the accompaniment of cool north winds and showers. » It is unofficially reported that Pittsburgh registered as high as 115 degrees, but Carbdndale in Illinois registered 106 degrees officially, while one hundred degrees Is reported -Jn many States. At Detroit the Ford Foundry had to be closed aftfir 250 workers had been treated for heat prostration.

CANADA’S HEAT WAVE

TORONTO, July 2. Thirty are dead as the result of the hottest Dominion Day ever recorded in Ontario, with the toll rising. Five were killed !in an aeroplane, and fourteen drowned and seven died of the heat. The rest are miscellaneous accidents. , ,yo-s.' ■' : ; - -./>• 995 DEATHS. i£l: pX •’• - ;(ri DUE TO HEAT WAVE. (Received this, day at 9.25 n.m) •. _ • ■ : NEW YORK, July 2. Deaths throughout the United' States attributable to the heat, including •drownings, of the last twenty-four hours .are estimated at two hundred and'thirty, bringing the grand total of the present ■wave to 995.