New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-01
WEATHER TO SUIT ALL TASTES.
HEAT IN COME pIACF,s-WIND AND RAIN

WEATHER III SUIT ALL lfAo co
SUMMER HEAT IN SOME PLACEs-wIND AND RAIN
IN oTHERs-CRoPs MUCH BENEFITED.
St. Louis May g-To-day Is the hottest day OF
the year so far. the mercury at p. m. marking 20
degrees Four of sunstroke one OF them re-
sultng fatally, reported up to noon
Chicago May 3i.-Records show this to have peen
the hottest May day on record in Chicago. The
mercury stood around 96 degrees for several hours.
and the Weather Bureau predicts that there VIII
be relief before tomorrow night Four rdnS aea,nS
from heat have been reported since yesterday
morning and several Of serious prostratlon
have come TO the attention OF the hospitals TO-DAY:
one was that OF a young woman who Tell from heT
bicycle while riding There Is great need OF ram IN
this vicinity. The fall Of rain IN Chicago since the the
first of the year has been 10 nches less Una" 'e
average of former years
Philadelphia. May 31.-Phiadephia experienced
another day of record-breakng heat to-day. Inc
highest point reached by the mercury was the
same as yesterday-94 degrees-but the mean tenn
perature to-day was five degrees higher IL was
also two degrees warmer at O'Clock to-nlght tnan
II at the same hour last evening, when tne
mercury marked "a degrees. There were seven
teen cases of prostraton reported by me ponce
and OF these three are In q serious condltioH
Pittsburg PENN May 3l-The mercury to-day was
one degree lower than the record Of yesterday.
when 1t reached the SO point A slight breeze pre-
walls. and conditions are favorable to tnunder-
storms. With yesterday and to-day more cases oi
sunstrokc and prostrations from the heat were re-
ported than Is usual In the warmest days OF MD
suffer greatly and number have been prostratea
and removed to their homes or to hospitals AMI
mails also suffer from the intense neat anu se'ei"'
valuable horses have succumbed to its enects
Denver May Sl-The storms In Colorado yester-
dav were the worst known for years. The entire
ccuntry has been soaked with heavy rain TOT
nearly thirty-six hours 1t promises to continue all
night and is accompanied with high winds Ihere
are four feet OF snow at Dillon a mining camp IN
the mountains. Water is 80 deep in Hoyoke that
rowboa has made trips up and down tne end thc
streams are swollen. 1t is thought that damage
result from food 4 bs sssp% means sn% mSns
to the farmers. coming at . most opportune Tune
Chapman, Neb.. May 3l.-A cyclone one mile vice
struck here yesterday and demolished everything 10
Its path. The house OF A. Bailor was down ~
n,eces fatally injuring Mrs Balor ana TWO cni- m,
iron The clothes OF two other children were "
orally torn from their bodies by the force OF 'he
wind Many other buildings were dafnaseo'
G, Iou,s Nav S-TeIegraph.c advces from over
oftv points in Southern Iowa Eastern Kansas. Mis-
souri, Arkansas. Indian Territory ana Northerh
Texas state that heavy rain has fallen ~ .nose @
sections during the last last rsnf in over six weeks
and has been OF incaculable beneft 10 crops ol az
remajns snbrokcn. and a scorching hot wind has
done great damage to wheat oats anu g, ,hs sta,es
OF Indiana and Illinois will be a total 1aiiure'
San Angelo. Tex. May Si-Sherin Broome' OF
Crockett County came here yesterday and reporter
a cloudburst near Ozona, Crockett county Oh '.o"-
day in which a number OF lives were iosi' rhe rhe
boa.s of five Mexicans have been recovered. ine
Devils River and Johnson Draws. he says. peIarne @
raging mountain torrents numoer rnd -, ,.it6
ranches are yet surrounded by II not covered VIII,
water and fears felt for the lives OF tne ,iS
inhabitants In those localities. Sheep are rspo ps
10 have been drowned In large puhches' a"N ''
OF fence washed away
Kingston. y. Y. May Sl-A violent wihos'orlh
struck this city about 33o o'clock this afternoon
causing considerable damage During ths t"emyy
mil storm lasted trees "cic
chimnevs and signs were blown down. ana nla,y sj
windows were blown In by the torce OF the "'iu
So far as known. nobody was injured
Yankton s. D.. May 3l.-One and seventehths
inches OF rain. the heaviest fall recorded IN TWO
wears have fallen over the corn belt IN south
Dakota during the last thrty-sy nours , lns ~
s,,res The largest crop OF small grain ralsed IN
this section for many years. and the farmers are
juolant.