The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-07-26
RECORD TO DATE BROKEN.
Monday Was Terrible Day In the
Corn Belt,

Kansas City, Mo-, July ga verit-
able hot blast literally scOrched the
southwest today, breaking all heat
records in the history of the local
weather bureau. Yesterday Kansas
City experienced the hottest weather
ever known here, the government ther-
mOmeter reaching 104 and remaining
above the 100 mark for seven hours.
Two dozen prOstratiOns, nine fatal, was
the result.
Today at $3.50 O'Clock the weather
bureau thermometer at the highest
point IN the city showed LOG degrees
with street thermometers iu the business
districts reaching as high as 12S, The
thermometer at a. m. registered 90.
was lOl at noon and at o. M, 1O4
Hardly breath of air stirred.
The suffering was intense, especially
among persons compelled to work out
doors and in the poor districts in the
bottoms. Seven deaths from prostra-
tiOns were repol ted during the day in
Kansas City, Mo, and Kansas Citv.
Kan and over 80 people were overcome
by the heat. This makes a total dead
for the two days of Is. Most of the
victims were elderly people.
The highest previous temperature in
the history of the Kansas City weather
bureau was 1O3, in August, 1896, but it
only remained near that point for one
day.
Today is the thirty-second in success.
sion on which the temperature has aver
aged above 80 degrees and the fifteenth
IN that time that the thermometer has
gone over 100. At Lawrence, Kan, the
state university reported the heat record
for Kansas again broken, at 1O6 de-
grees, the highest in "a years.
Farmers are still rushing their live
stock to market because of the scarcity
OF water. Today the local receipts of
cattle were the heaviest on record
amounting to 25,50O head. There was
also a big advance in the price of grain,
attributable to the heat. September
corn rose almost cents to 60 5 Sc and
September wheat went up LIE to
6S 12c. Single car lots of corn sold as
high as 63c bushel to go back to the
country.
Killing the People.
Topeka, Kan, July 22-Three deaths
and 10 prOstrations form the record of
deaths of Topeka. The thermometer
has registered 1O6 as it's maximum. 1t
has been three degrees higher during the
heated season, but the humidity made
today the most oppressive of the year
Most OF the active work was stopped
for the day. From numerous places in
Kansas come reports of most intense
heat and much resulting damage.
Slight showers fell this evening in the
region about Pottawattome county and
some IN Greenwood county. Lyon coun-
ty had good rain. The larger part Of
the state, however, is still parched by
the terrible heat
Like breaths from a furnace the hot
air swept across the Kansas farms to-
day, more completely blighting the
scared corn and other suffering vegeta-
ton, In some parts of the state the
temperature was as high as 100 with
considerable humidity reported. Heat
OF this intensity has been a regular thing
Tor the past 40 days and the endurance
OF the state is rapidly approaching the
limit. Losses are falling on farmers and
stOckmen.
Estimates of the probable yield have
fallen to a quarter of a crop. Many
counties report a total loss of all the
grains From nearly every town in the
state except Topeka come complaints Of
the scarcity of water
Chicago, July 22.-Ten dead, one man
driven insane and FIVE prostrations
showed today as the result of yester-
days sweltering heat. The temperature
today was pleasant, being below 80, and
the deaths and prostrations therefore
were the work of yesterday.
st. Louis, July 22.-In st. Louis to-
day the weather bureau reported 1O7
| degrees, the highest ever recorded in the
city. Six deaths resulted from the heat
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