The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-03
Thermometer Registers 1O8 De-
grees at Rocklesse, in the Prov
- ince of Ontario.
HOT IN THE UNITED STATES
Washington Citizens Suffering,
With the Mercury at LOT, and
Humidity Excessive.

WASHINGTON July with down
thermometers registering iO1 degrees. a
weather record FOR the season was made
here today The official temperature was
9S and the suffering was Increased by
the humidity. No immediate relief, II
was said. is in sight.
The weather bureau promises that the
coming week will be one of moderate
temperature in the south Atlantic and
gulf states and generally over the region
west OF the Mississippi river. High tenn
pcratures VIII prevail the first part OF
the week in the northern and middle
states east of the Mississippi followed
by change To lower temperature In
these districts about Wednesday.
\ harometrlc depression that now COW
ers the Rocky mountain region. accord
ing TO the bureau. will drift slowly east
ward, preceded and attended by local
showers and thunder storms and will
cross the Mississippi Tuesday OF We'd
ncSday and the Atlantic states Thursday
or Friday. II will be followed by cooler
weather over tho plains states. tho Mis-
sssippi valley and The region east thereof.
The heat record for the North Amerj
can continent was not held by the United
States. but went TO Canada. for a Rock
cliife, Ontario. the thermometer regis
tered los degrees, The hottest place in
the United States WAS Marquette Mich
Mo: Des Mopes. la; Omaha. Nsh. :.
Charles city. la. reported lo2 degrees;
Fort Smith. Ark; Louisville. Ky: Keo-
kuk Ia: Alpcna. Mich. and Sioux City
Ia. 100; Chicago, St Louis. Detroit. llar-
risburg.. Cairo. III. and Toledo. o.. 9S.
SIN big cities reported 90 degrees Of
delphia swcltered under temperature
two degrees less.
NEW YORK. July @.-The advancing
h. 81 I,.y "a
York and vicinity With full force today.
driving tho official THERMOMETERS up to
30 degrees ihe high record FOR July .
and causing I've deaths and many pros
trattonS. There We're two dca'ljS by
drowning.
The temperature tonight is suil wcll
mp in the eighties with UtiIe diminuIlou
OF humidity. Hundreds OF thousands OF
city dwclcrs have been driven To the
parks and bcaches. The city parks to-
night were camping grounds for wilted
throngs from The tenement districts. No
relief Is in sight
Upstate also ii sizzling hot. At
Rochester. 81 degrees WIS recorded: at
syracuse. %. and In sections of Orange
county. t0i
Five additions 10, the death lis, were
made tonight. swelling the Total TO ten.
Reports OF additional fatalities in harbor
ana river waters kept coming in until Il
total Of nine deaths by drowning was
recorded One man committed suicide
because OF the heat
PITTSBURG. July with rcord-
breaking temperature during June. July
opened here with indications for still
higher temperature for an extended pc
riod rnday. according To the weather
bureau. was the hottest day in ton years,
reaching % degrees on the top OF a sky
scrapcr while In the government weather
kiosk on the street TOO degrees was reg
isrcrcd. Private thermometers registered
i06 and. t05. on June 10 OF this year
81 was reached but todays mark was
exceeded by that OF July /. 1901, when
the offlcal temperature was eS
INDIANAPOLIS July All Indiana
suffered from The heat today aud new
records for the ycar were set in many
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