Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-08

Il has been plenty warm in Nebraska.
and all over the country for that matter,
this SUMMER: hut heat records have been
made in other years that are not easily
surpassed.
In the years 1864 the Rhine. Loire and
Seine rivers went dry. The heat in several
OF the French provinces in 17G5 was equal
~ that OF a glass furnace. Meat could
~ prepared for the table by merely ex-
losing IT to the sun. No person dared 10
Venture out Of his house between the hour
10 neon and 4 D.. m.
In thesYear I71G many shops had 10 close
an over Europe. Not a drop OF rain fell
for four months In 17zS the thermometer
rose TO AL degrees. In I77S the heat in
Bologna was SO serious that scores Of peo-
ple were stuffed
In July, 1913, the heat again became in
tolerable Vegetables were burned up and
fruit dried on the trees The furniture and
woodwork in dwelling houses cracked and
split and meat became tainted in an hour.
The. French revolution wns then at the
height Of its bloody carnival. and many
superstitops persons thought that the
wave Of heat following this mighty up
heaxal. was the curse OF God.
in 1900 Spain was visited by a sweltering
temperature Madrid and other cities were
deserted and the streets became silent.
Laborers died in the field.
Another disastrous hot wave swept over
!. Europe IN 1851 In the Champs de Mars,
Paris, during a military review soldiers by
e-se0re fell victims to sunstroke, and at
Aldershot England. men dropped dead
while al drill compelling the officers to
suspend the exercises.
There are many living yet who recall
the terrible experiences OF 1858 IN New York
and elsewhere In that year New Orleans
was decimatsd by yellow fever. In New
York Il appeared as II the city was on
nrec The thermometer ranged from IS to
IS degrees for seven .days. In that sum-
zaur. ma persons died from sunstroks in
Aswr York %
Yhe summer Of 1854 was another hot spell
fan over the country. but il appears 10 have
Noonoentrated all its fury in the southwest,
PARTICULARLY. IN the state of Missouri. Ac-
oon1fng- 20 the statement Of an old Mis-
souri, pioneer. after the nth OF June OF that
year, not q drop Of rain Tell during the re-
maLnaer af the twelve months
The .Eear 1872 was another fearful one in
New York. Is2 cases Of Sunstroks occurring
on July 4 Of which seventv-two proved
fatal The principal thorouEffares were
IKE fields OF battle Men fell by the score
and anbulAnees were in constant requisi-
ton Dumb beasts Law down bv the way
side and 2Danted their lives away. Over
10 deaths were recorded In three or -four
DAYS
The next SERIOUS visitation took place ~
lszz. and about JufY began 20 make ttI
IS0peg feat throughout the middle and
southern states "a well as New York IN
washington the heat Was PARTICULARLY op-
ppassiVA The car rails became 80 ex-
pGhdsd ny the action o. the sun as &c
re up m curved lines. drawing the bolts
IN 6ns instance the rails burst away from
the bolts and left the track entirely The
thermometer marked 1O4 degrees.
TIE SUMNER Of 1879 viii long be remem-
bered Tor its Sorrid atmosphere but in ISIS
it's said thai the heat throughout the
United States was the greatest on record
the thermometer in MANY places register
ing 10 degrees IN the shade In England
tse merours RANGED from 80 70 sel degrees
and In Paris ss degrees. July a ISL Il
said 10 have. been. the hottest day ever
known up 10 that time Another torri6