Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-17
HEAVY RAIN IN NEW YORK
Downpour the Greatest for August
in History of Weather Bureau.
WASHINGTON COOLEST CITY
Bracing Atmospheric Conditions
Sizzling in the Southwest.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO. H.. August 1.-THE torrid
wave that has invaded Chicago since Fri
day resulting in many prostratons AND
wreaking havoc among infants. has been
broken by cool invigorating breezes from
Lake Michigan. Before relief came yes
terday. however. there were reported
fifty-two deaths of children under six
years old. none directly caused by the
heat hut all attributable to It's debili-
tating effect upon the ailing little ones.
Such record. the health authorities say.
has not been equaled in years.
Reports from Missouri. Kansas and the
southwest say that yesterday was the
most trying since the devastating
drought in 1901. The whitening winds
caused much damage to crops and vege-
tation.
Thermometers in Kansas City, Mo-:
Oklahoma City and Muskogee registered
as high as 10 and 1l2 while other
towns in Kansas, Arkansas. Missouri and
Nebraska were all suffering, with the
mercury resting over the 100 mark.
Seven deaths are reported in Omaha
as a result of the high temperature, and
two men are reported dead from the
heat at st. Louis yesterday, swelling the
death list to eleven since Sunday morn
ing.
St Joseph. Mo-. reports three deaths
from heat. among them being William A.
Kenyon. civil war veteran. aged sew
enty-four. The day was the hottest In
eight years.
Still Sizzling in Southwest.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, August 17.-Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Oklahoma today again
fairly sizzled under the burning sun.
Early in the day reports of prostrations
began to come in. Rain was predicted
for tonight.
Last night was the hottest experienced
in Kansas City in ten years. At O'Clock
this morning the local government bu-
reau reported temperature of 81, three
degrees hotter than at the same hour
Monday. One man prostrated yesterday
| is reported dying at the hospital. Others
affected yesterday are still under treat.
ment.
At Topeka at o'clock this morning il
was 80. There the temperature reached
so at midnight. Corn in the vicinity Oh
Topeka is not suffering.
NORFOLK, Neb, August 1.-THE heat
claimed three victims in Norfolk and
vicinity last night. 1t was the hottest
day of the year, the mercury going to 9S
Downpour in New York City.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, August 11-NeW YORK
city is fioundering in the heaviest rainfall
that August weather has produced in the
history of the weather bureau. Only once
before in fact, as shown by the bureau S
records, has more water descended from
the clouds In these parts in the same
time. The rainfall up TO o'clock was
5::,5 inches, 5O4 inches of which had been
precipitated in the twenty-four hours i'm
mediately preceding.
The greatest previous record for like
period in August was made in 1888, on the
21st and I'D of the month, when the rain
fall was 3.!G inches.
The present deluge has only, been ex-
ceeded by the flood of October and g.
1903, when the precipitation was 9.4t
inches.
KINGSTON, y. Y. August 17.-Heavy
rains within the past forty yeight hours
have completely extingushed the forest
fires which have been burning for days
past i'm the Catskill and Shawangunk
mountains. At one time eleven fires were
in progress in the heavily wooded regions
of these ranges. The most extensive fire
was that near Lake Minnewaska, which
burned over 400 acres before it was eX-
tinguished.