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to hospitals. Great crowds swarmed to
the pleasure resorts and many of the
pleasure seekers were laid low Ivy tho
heat.
At each fire engine house in the city
streams were played about the streets
and helped to cool small bits of the city.
The public parks were thrown open for
sleeping purposes and hundreds hocked
there to get air. Some OF the athletes who
took part in the municipal meets in the
parks were overcome and had to quit
rhe police stopped some of the races In
which small boys were entered.
tonight IT was reported at the hospi-
tails that ct least five of those who were
Frustrated might die. Many cases Of
prostration were not reported. doctors
and druggists being kept busy all day at
tending patients.
ClScTNNAri. July Two. men are
dead and between twenty and thirty are
prostrated in Cincinnati this evening as
the result Of the intense heat here to-day.
The mercury rose tc las his afternoon.
though at the Government weather
bureau lO2 was the highest
Ephraim Short. aged 80. and William
Owen, aged SO. are the two dead Five
men are in the City Hospital suffering
from sunstroke and the physicians there
cay they can hardly live beyond to-mor-
row.
Inc DOWNTOWN OlSVr1CI OI \ U1ClOTutl
was practically deserted to-day. people
preferring to remain at home. At {"
O'Clock stiff breeze came up and the
indications are tha, il will rain before
morning. Forecaster Devereaux SAYS IL
may be hotter Tomorrow than to-day.
James Theat ,33 believedt to live in Shelby
vile, Ind, died tonight at City Hospital
from heat. The temperature fell IL de-
Rreee between Z and y o. clock.
ST. Louis. July. 4.-Temperature Of lOI
was recorded at the Government weather
sbureau this afternoon at 2:3O o'clock
This was the highest temperature recorded
lin St Louis eince 1901 and made Tuesday
the hottest Fourth of July on record
kThe temperature at the street level was
i10S degrees according to the thermometer
at the Government weather bureau.
Two deaths end ten prostrations were
reported by the police. The fact that the
day was a holiday and few persons were
at work cut down the list of victims. The
omcial forecast is for a continuance of
tho extreme heat.
bad its hottest 4th in six years. and for
the third successive day the city swell
tered under a temperature that hov cred
up IN the 90s from morning until dusk
The maximum recorded was 95. Five
deaths reported at the morgue are at
ty-two .prostrations. Exhausted thou
sands thronged the parks. So seriously
is Pittsburg afflicted by the heat that the
Department of Health and the Police
Department have extended first aid facili-
ties throughout the city. and directions
have been given for the care Of pros
trated victims. The mills wore idle be-
cause Of the holiday and have been seri-
ously hampered since the present heat
wave came on Saturday.
YORK. Pa. July Mrs. Lizzie Herman.
62years old, was Frustrated by the heat to-
day and died at the York Hospital. This
was the hottest day Of the summer The
mercury scared to l05. making it the
hotties Fourth of July in this city in ten
years.
KANSAS CITY. July 4.-Four deaths in
Kansas City were reported to-day as
having been caused by the heat William
Cation. a barber. was overcome and died
at the General Hospital this morning
Mrs. Fred Willard. 10. who has been con-
fined to her bed with a brokrn leg, died
to-day. Her death. physicians say, was
due TO the heat. Jesse Carolton. a rail-
road laborer. was picked up unconscious
on the street and died before reaching a
hospital. The fourth victim was Elma
Enfield. months old
MILWAUKEE. July Two prostrations
and one death from heat were reported
In Milwaukee to-day. The hot wave
prevails practically throughou, the State.
DUBUQUE. Ia. July Matthew Mas
day and fell into the machinery of a pump
ing plant sustaining injury from which
he died Anthony Schmitt. a restaurant
man. was overcome by heat and is in a
precarious condition.
DAVENPORT, la. July Matthias La
Franz, farm laborer, was overcome by
the heat and died last night. Henry A
Leach. formerly a travelling man. died
last night after being overcome by the
heat
PHILADELPHIA. July 4-The heat killed
eight persons to-day and prostratad
scores of others. many of whom ara not
expected to survive. Although the wealth
or to-day was even more severe than
on the two days previous the fact that
fewer deaths were reported IL accounted
for because of the national holiday when
many We're not az WORK
To-day's temperature. while 2 degrees
lower than the record reached this year.
8A, last Monday. was more trying be-
cause OF the humidity, which was SO per
cont. against 10 per cent. on the previous
dsv
CHICAGO. july From all over the
middle West maSsa ges are pouring in that
this was the hottest Fourth of july ex-
perienced since records first we're kept
In Chicago the Official Government ther-
mometer on the lofty dome of the Federal
Building registered l02 Chicago's toll
Of death to-day was twenty. There was
the usual lerge number Of pro-tra.ions
Deaths to-day from heat in various
cities: Chicago, 20; Kansas City. 4; st.
Louis and suburbs. 10; St Paul and
vicinity, 9, Toledo. Ohio. !; Springfield.
Ill, /: Davenport. Ia, /: Columbus,
Ohio, /; Detroit o; Topeka. Kan. q;
Sedalia, Mo, 1; Fort Worth, Tex. /; Gin
cinnati, 2; Rockford. H. L. Peoria, III. d.,
2; Des Moines. Ia. q Sioux City.la /.
MEXICAN STRIKE SETTLED.