The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-02
HOT WEATHER AND DROUTH.
CROP DAMAGE HAS REACHED
FORTY PER CENT.
Gloomy Outlook For Kansas and Ok
lahoma Prostrations at
st. Louis-Kansas City Still
Sweltering.

Kansas City, Aug. 1.-Au Kansas
City and vicinity sweltered again to-
day through the third successive day
of 100 degrees of heat. The govern
ment weather bureau reports show 100
degrees and over from p. m. until
after 5 o'clock this evening. the max
imum being at A D. m. when 102 de-
grees were recorded. At o'clock this
evening the reading was 90.
Throughout Kansas the same condi-
tons prevail, and the reports as to the
condition of the corn crop are very
gloomy. Hot winds are general
throughout the state, and in the south
ern and western parts rain has been
needed for many days. and farmers
are losing hope. Several localities in
the southern part of the state report
that the farmers are cutting their corn
IN order to preserve it for fodder.
THE CROP DAMAGE.
Topeka, Kan. Aug. Reports as to
the damage to corn crops in Kansas.
Oklahoma and the Cherokee Strip as a
result of drouth and the prevailing hot
winds, are pouring into headquarters
here of the Santa Fe and Rock Island
roads, whose lines practically cover the
state. a summary OF these reports in
dictate the conditions TO be as follows:
In Oklahoma it is estimated that the
damage viii amount to 90 per cent
The damage in southern Kansas, east
of Winfield. is slight. upland fields be-
ing the only ones hurt. West of Win
field the damage is estimated at so per
cent. Along the Santa Fe for 100 miles
west of Emporia, on the main line. a
co per cent damage has been sustained.
The Hutchinson branch TO kingley re
ports 80 per cent.
From Mcpherson north to the Ne
braska line and in eastern and north
eastern Kansas, the railroad reports
state that the crop has not been seri-
ously injured.
1t is estimated that the damage to
the crop generally through the state
of Kansas, Oklahoma and the Chero>
kee Strip is about 40 per cent. Rail-
road officials here state that if the hot
winds continue two days longer the
damage will amount to so to 20 per
cent.
REGISTRATIONS AT ST. LOUIS.
st. Louis, Aug. NINETY eight de-
grees in the shade was registered by
the weather bureau at 4 o'clock this
afternoon. This was the maximum
temperature of the day. On the streets
where the full force of the sun was
felt thermometers showed 100 and over.
There were several prostrations today,
the most serious being Herman Moss,
aged %, and Arthur Gumners. aged As.
Aleanor Sohrman. Joine Butter Joseph
Rugli and William Whitney were
also overcome by heat. The last named
died after being taken to the city hos
pital and the condition of the others
is serious.
This was the hottest day of the sea-
son. At midnight the coolest place in
the city was on top of the federal
building. where the thermometer
registered Sc,
HOT AT LOUISVILLE.
Louisville, KY, Aug. 1.-The tenn
perature in this vicinity took a sudden
rise today. At Z a. m. the mercury
registered rs degrees and it gradually
rose until at $3.50 o'clock 100 was re-
corded. This evening a good breeze
sprang up, causing the thermometer to
drop II degrees. No prostrations are
reported.