Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17
Official Thermometer at This Point
Rises to ITO Degrees.
HUNDRED THREE AT LINCOLN
Highest Temperature of Year is
Recorded at P. M. Monday.
FOUR DEATHS AT ST. LOUIS
Three Deaths from Heat I'm Kansas
City and Three at st. Joseph
six Persons Overcome by heat
in Des MOines.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Aug. 16-Unusually
intense heat, officially recorded by the
government weather burear as high
10 degrees; caused at least three deaths,
numerous prostrations and much damage
! to crops today in Missouri, Kansas and
| Oklahoma.
Throughout the southwest the day was
the most trying since the devastating
| drouth of 1901 As the whitening winds
| swept across the plains, much vegetation
| fell The day was the hottest Topeka
has had for eight years, 1O2 degrees being
officially recorded. Two prostrations re-
suited there.
The past eight days in Kansas, each
with a maximum temperature above 90
degrees and a minimum which has not
been below 70. is the hottest period of
that length of time since 1901.
.. Oklahoma is Hottest.
| In Oklahoma City the government ther-
mometer registered 1O3 while thermometers
| in the business district reached 112. II
was the hottest day recorded there in
Is years Dispatches state Oklahoma
| crops have been materially damaged by
! the sultry wind.
At Muskogee, the government ther-
momhter registered -11O. This was the
highest recorded in the three states.
| A hot wind blew all day at McAlester
with the temperature at 1os. Vegetation
there is being killed, cotton is materially
damaged.
Reports from the Panhandle indicate that
little more than moderate temperature has
prevailed on account of the altitude and
prevailing winds.
Three Dead at st. Joseph.
16-ThreR deaths
we're reported today due to the heat, among
them being William A. Kenyon, civil war
veteran, aged IA. The heat record of Sun
day was reached when the Thermometer
registered 101 shortly after noon.
| Becoming insane with the heat Mary
| Keck ran for three blocks through the
shopping district, screaming at the top Of
her voice. lit required three men to over
power her.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Aug. ia
temperature of Sc degrees was recorded
here today. Albert M. Reynolds of Law
renee, Kan, was Frustrated and died
shortly afterwards.
Two Die in st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS Aug. 16.-Four men died Of
the heat today and nine additional deaths
which occurred Saturday and Sunday, and
which had not been made public, became
known by the burial permits. The govern
ment thermometer registered 80 degrees at
12 o'clock and two degrees higher was
reached later in the day.
Hundred Three at Lincoln.
LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 16.-An local hot
weather records for this year were broken
today when the weather bureau reported
temperature of 1O3 at o'clock this after
noon. This is the climax OF hot wave
which has held Lincoln and southern Ne
braska in its grip for two weeks. Suf-
fering here yesterday, when 100 was re-
corded, and today has been intense. There
: has been no rain in this section for two
weeks and reports from the country are
that the corn crop has already been SER
iously damaged and will suffer much
more seriously If the heat wave and
drouth continues.
LoUP CITY, Neb., Aug. 16.-(Special.)-
The thermometer here today registered
SO, and has been almost if not equally as
high for the past six or seven days, in spite
Of several rains at nights during that
period.
TECUMSEH, Neb,, Aug. l5.-(speciaL)-
. This has been the hottest day of the season.
the Thermometer registering from 100 to
l02 degrees above IN the shade. during the
, middle of the day. Rain has not fallen in
this section for nearly three weeks. The
corn crop is going to suffer, we'll as
the alfalfa and pastures.
CHARLES CITY, Ia, Aug. 15.-CSpecial.)
Claude Williams was overcome by the
heat yesterday which caused congestion Of
the brain. He suffered five commissions
after being carried to the house. He is
an employe of the gas company
b MADISON, Neb, Aug. 16.-(Special.)-
Walter Schmitt a son of Mrs. Robert
i" Crossier residing at Four Corners, west
of Madison, was overcome with the heal
Saturday while at work in the field. Fail
ing to come TO dinner, his mother assisted
by others, searched until p. m, when the
young man was discovered wandering aim
' lessly about the cornfeld of neighbor
He says that he became blinded by the in
tense heat and confused and although he
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