Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-13
TORRINZONE BURSTS.
PAST r~EEEK HAS BEEN A RECORD
BREAKER.
Mercury Climbs Up and Peeps Over
the Top of the GIass-Many Deaths
and Prostrations Re ported Crops in
Many States Burning Up.
Hottest I'm Years.

There is not much in the way of 'wea ther
that the United States cannot dish up in
the course of twenty flour hours. Indeed,
.coincidently there may be every conceiv-
able variety fashioned into n sort of me
neurological mosaic, making MP what may
be styled one unified aggregation of uni
versal climates. AS a matter of fact the
american weather nowadays is not,
strictly speaking, weather ait all; ii is an
assortment of samples, no sample war;
ranted to "hold." According to former
rules of computation and average it shoald
be intensely hot down South; whereas the
region of the magnolia h,ss been delicious
ly cool, refreshed by abundant and FREE
quent rains, with now and then delicate,
barely perceptible pinch of,frost in the air.
In New York, where n 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 sw eltering 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 pined
for patter of rain upon corn leaf and
wheat ear, and cloudburst came along
TO drown out n part Of Nebraska. Now,
all this is Indicative Of bad management
somewhere. The distribution is perform
ed in bungIingly incompetent manner.
This business of turning on a burning
glass where the earth is already parched
and the people baking, emptying clouds
into lakes, and sending n surplus of rain
into State that has an instructive aver
sion TO water, has been carried 10 stupid
excess. Ii is time stop were ordered.
Record for the Week Appalling.
Tuesdays torridity was the climax of n
hot week that hroke the record of twenty
FIVE years. In Chicago every day the
mercury climbed up to the 90 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 scorching breath from some
Mexican inferno that so often sweeps
across Kansas and Nebraska, leaving
death, destruction and mourning in its
track. The record shows remarkably
high temperature from"an early hour and
a striking drop during'a shift in the wind.
Chicago did not get the worst of the
neat, IOT at iuuluHuIOllS, LOUISVILLE anu
Charleston, =. C., the thermometer reg
istered 1Oo, making the first century rec
ord of the season. It,was 9S at Washing
ton and Norfolk. Via. The maximum of
96 was reached mt Detroit. st. Louis,
Springfield Ill. Cairo, Nashville, Mem
phis and Cincinnati. New York, as
usual, played a second TO Chicago with
only "a. Boston had a lucky day, having
sea wind which kept the record down to
go. At Z O'Clock N night Ohio and east
ern Indiana We're still sWeltering under a
temperature of 90 To 81.
The Rocky Mountain region was enjoy
ing compensation for tthe suffering of last
week. Beyond Iowa and Minnesota the
temperature was down to 60 or below. In
Colorado and Wyoming it even went as
low as 30. There were general rains. with
more or less thunder, in Iowa, Nebraska
and Colorado, ard those sections will
probably get more showers later. This
is likely 10 prove the lGnaest 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 higheGt marks for Mon
day: