Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-07
TORRID ZONE BURSTS.
PAST WEEK HAS BEEN A RECORD
BREAKER.
Mercury Climbs Up and Peeps Over
the Top Of the G;ass-Many Deaths
ard Prostrations Re ported-Crcps in
Many States Burning Up.
Hottest in Years.

Hottest In Years.
There is not much in the way of weather
that the United States cannot dish UP IN
the course of twenty-four hours. Indeed.
cOincidently there may be every coHc"iv-
able variety fashioned into sort OF me
teorological mosaic, making UP what may
be styled one unified aggregation Of uni
versal climates. AS Il matter of fact the
American weather nowadays is not.
strictly speaking, weather at all: it is an
assortment of samples, Ia sample war
ranted to hold" According IL former
rules of computation and average il should
be intensely hot down South: whereas the
region of the magnolia has been delicious
ly cool, refreshed by abundant and fire.
quent rains. with now and then a delicate
barely porceptible pinch of frost in the air.
In New York. where il reasonable degree
of heat would have been admitted. but
cool breezes were normal, all records have
been broken for hot May weather.
While New York was sweltering in this
way Colorado had lost herself in eight or
ten inches of snow While Texas was be-
ing deluged with rain Indiana was burn
ing UP with drought. Other sections pincd
for a patter of rain upon corn leaf and
TO drown ont Il part of Nebraska. Now.
all this is indicative of bad management
somewhere. The distribution is perform
ed in bunglingly incompetent manner.
This business of turning on Il burning
glass where the earth is already parched
and the people baking. emptying clouds
into lakes, and sending a surplus of rain
into a State that has an instructive aver
sion to water, has been carried to 4 stupid
excess. 1t is time a stop were ordered.
Record for the Week Appalling.
Tuesdays torridity was the climax of
hot week that broke the record of twenty
five years. In Chicago every day the
mercury climbed up to the 80 mark, and
several times took peep over the top of
the glass. Not since The bureau began
regulating the weather had the CORE
spending week let loose so much caloric.
The excessive heat was due to the south
wind. the scorchinS breath from some
Mexican inferno that so often sweeps
across Kansas and Nebraska. leaving
death, destruction and mourning in its
track. The record shows a remarkably
high temperature from an early hour and
striking drop during Il shift in the wind.
Chicago did not get the worst of the
heat, for at Indianapolis, Louisville and
Charleston, $. c., the thermometer reg
iStered 100, making the first century rec
ord of the season. 1t was 9S at Washing
ton and Norfolk. Va. The maximum of
96 was reached at Detroit. st. Louis,
| Springfield, Ill. Cairo, Nashville, Mem
phi5 and Cincinnati. New York, as
usual, played a second to Chicago with
only 81. Boston had Il lucky day. having
sea wind which kept the record down TO
60. At Z o'clock at night Ohio and east
ern Indiana We're still sweltering under a
temperature of 90 to o.
The Rocky Mountain region was enjoy
ing compensation for the suffering of last
week. Beyond Iowa and Minnesota the
| tcmpera ture was down to 60 or below In
Colorado and Wyoming it even went as
low as %. There were general rains with
more or less thunder, in Iowa, Nebraska
and Colorado, and those sections will
probably get more showers later. This
is likely to prove the longest spell of wet
weather the arid section of the West has
had for years. Cairo and Nashville also
reported showers
Government correspondents sent in the
following as the highest marks for Mon
d1y.