The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-28

BROKE ALL RECORDS
No Day Last Year Was
Warmer Than Yesterday.
1O4 DEGREESIN THE SHADE
Hottest Day in June for IL
Years--Corn Is Suffering.


| Yesterday was a hot day.
Never before in the history Of the
government station here has the Their
mometer registered as high in June
as it did yesterday. At o'clock in
the afternoon the thermometer registered
the highest point-104 degrees in the
shade. Monday it was Sc degrees and the
] people thought it was warm. Only one
day during the whole of last year was it
as warm, and that was on August 8. Yes
terday was unprecedented for June day.
The nearest point in June was in 1897. on
the 24th when it was 1O2 in the shade.
During the month of June last year the
highest mark was 81. while on the cor
/ responding day it was only &C.. TWO years
ago it was 81.
The indications for today, however, are
cooler, with probable rain and thunder
storm.
| The sun was not only intensely hot yes
| terday, but the atmosphere was hot, the
strong wind from the south being almost
unbearable.
While Weather Observer Johnson's Their
mometer only registered 1O4 in the shade
on top of the Sedgwick block, many IN
! official thermometers went as high as 106
and los during the afternoon on the
| streets. The sun was SO intense that the
street paving gave way under your feet
and strangers thought they were walk
ing on sponges. All sorts of remarks
were heard during the day. Everybody
! zI,r IL +y,a I
many found comfort under the manufac-
tured breezes of electric fans. One man
said it was so hot that while moving the
yard he worked up a sweat and had to
take off his coat, while another remarked
that if ii continued he was going to re-
move his flannel underwear and wear
knit or gauze. L. r. Delaney has it that
incandescent light globes were melted and
that he had the sun light matches all day
for him.
No sunstrokes were reported during the
day but had there been much building
going on the heat would have caused
some
The heat was more noticeable uptown.
The sun reflected on the stone pavements
and asphatum streets and made it hot in
Z
nue. merchant put his thermometer out in
the sun to see how warm it really was
and it had not been in it's position but
few minutes until the mercury went out
the top of it.
1t is feared that unless rain comes to
moisten the ground that the corn crop
will practically be ruined 1t hasn't rained
for some time and the corn was drying
out very fast. y few more days like yes
terday and the farmers say this crop will
be completely burned I'D and won't yield
fifteen bushels to the acre. The stalks
and their branches are already burning
under the scorching sun, and together
with the hot southern winds, it will only
take a few more days to settle the corn
crop in this locality. All that can save
it is a good, soaking rain, and if the Gle
ments don't go back on the prediction Of
prognosticators II viii be here in short
time. The farmers are still harvesting
their wheat. Some are through and are
praying for rain to save the corn crop.
while others are just the opposite. and
want it to hold off until they. can get
their grain in the shock.
It was universally expressed that yes
terday was the hottest day Of the year
but none stopped to consider that but
one day during the whole of last year
equalled It, or that 1t was hotter than on
any previous June for twelve years.