The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-15
DROUIH STILL CONTINUES
NO IMMEDIATE PROSPECT OF
 AB4TEMENT PROMISED.
Reports from Various Places in the West of Temperatures Over One Hum dred Hope for the Crops Falling Conditions Make the Danger of Fire Very Serious
Very Serious.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 4.-No relief
 came to-day in the southwest. The 1 day was repetition of the past two
 weeks, with reports from many places | in western Missouri, Kansas and the
 territories of temperatures over the 100
 mark. At most places the sun shone
 mercilessly with not a cloud nor a i breeze to break it's rays. Kansas i City last night proved more bearable, a
 breeze from the north alleviating the
 conditions, but day of intense heat 1 followed. Tonight there is a prospect
 of rain in Oklahoma, but there are no indications of a change from any other part of the southwest.
 With no relief in sight the fears for the crops are fast becoming realities,
 and the scarcity of water and generally
 dry conditions make the element of fire a more serious one. What the real
 damage to corn, the crop most affect ed, will be, is problematical but it is
 probably safe to say that half the crop will be lost. The supply of water is short in almost every direction and the
 shipment of cattle and hogs to the mar
 ket to save them must continue. In
 Kansas City to-day the government thermometer reached 102 and at Marys-
 vile, Kas. 1O4 was recorded against 100 yesterday. There were three pros
 trations in Marysville.
 Jackson Miss, July 14.-From all over the state come reports that corn, cotton and other farm crops have been seriously damaged because of the long continued drouth Very little rain has fallen since April and none at all except in a few favored spots since the first of June. Mississippi made no corn last year because of continuous rains dur ing June and July and to fail two years in succession is a serious matter to thousands of farmers. The weather has been blisteringly hot for a week
 Washington, July 14, p, m.-The hot wave continues throughout the great corn belt, the south and the greater portions of the Ohio valley, with no inn mediate prospect of abatement The temperatures have also risen consider ably in the upper lake region and New England. Marquette Mich, reports a maximum of 102 degrees, exceeding the previous records of 1873 and 1894 by two degrees. Showers continue over the greater portion of the middle states. Warm weather will continue Monday in the interior of the country and prob ably on Tuesday over great portion of this area, except in the south, where thunder storms will cause some moder alton. It will be warmer in New Eng land. On the New England coast the l winds will be light to fresh south to southwest and the weather Monday and l Tuesday fair
 Burlington, Ia, July 14-To-day was | the sixth day in succession that the | went to 100 and over. The | humidity in the atmosphere makes it | very oppressive. There are no indica- | tions of rain. |
 St. Paul Minn., July 14.-Yesterday's | record was equalled to-day by the gov ernment thermometer the maximum | being 9S There was a strong breeze | from the southwest, which greatly add | ed the discomfort.