Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-04

HOTTEST OF YEAR IN NEW YORK
Many Deaths and PrOstratiOns in City
and Vicinity.
NEW YORK, July AT II o'clock this
morning the official thermometer. $50 feet
up, registered 81 degrees with every indi-
cation that It would continue climbing
This IL the hottest day of the year and
within two degrees of the hottest July 8
recorded since the weather bureau was
established.
One death and many prostrations were
reported early. In Brooklyn Eugene Cort-
nell, crazed by the heat ran amuck with
an open knife and. after attempting TO
stab two policemen and several citizens,
was shot dead by an officer.
Al Newark, N. j.. reliable thermometers
registered 100 degrees at 10 q. m. One death
was reported.
The heat caused ten deaths and over
sixty prostrations Sunday. The rush Of
bathers to river and ocean beaches due to
the excessive warmth was indirectly re-
spuonsible for nine deaths in this neigh
borhood from drowning.
PHILADELPHIA, July SHINE deaths
have been reported as a result OF the hot
spell. A light breeze tempered the heat
this afternoon.
Two Deaths in Baltimore.
BALTIMORE. Md. July S.-The temper
ature here reached 95 at noon. One death
was reported and one heat crazed woman
took her own life.
FOur Deaths IN PittsburE.
PITTSBURG, July 3.-During the fore
noon four persons dropped dead. one COM
mitted suicide and two were drowned in
the river while bathing. The Thermometer
had reached IS degrees at noon.
BOSTON, July ain the last twenty-four
hours four deaths due to heat and numer-
Gus prostrations occurred in this city. At
noon 1t was % degrees.
Two Deaths at st. Joseph.
ST. JOSEPH. July 3.-There were two
deaths from heat here last night, following
tho seasons hottest day OF 1O4 degrees.
Philadelphia Continues Warm.
PHILADELPHIA, July 3.--That Phila-
deiphia and vicinity are In for another ex-
tremely hot day was early indicated by the
government weather bureau thermometer
which registered 81 degrees at a. m. OF
nine degrees higher than at the same hour
yesterday. A high percentage OF humidity
added to the discomfort OF the extreme
heat.
Hottest Night in Kansas City.
fNhANOho ia JuAg Or ObOWAnb lnO
hottest night in Kansas City since the es-
Establishment Of the weather bureau here
twenty-three years ago, the local fore
caster predicted no abatement today for
the southwest. Most Of Kansas City that
could slept out Of doors last night Thou
sands who had n ( the advantage Of sleep
ing porches made their beds en- fire escapes
a-d in the poorer quarters of the city hun
dreds OF men, women and children lay
down on the curbing In the suburban s.
tricts after midnight many slept on the
lawns with or without cots. The govern
ment thermometer registered 81 at mid
night the same at a. m. and just before
sunrise stood at SO, the lowest reading OF
the twcnty-four hours from to T.
At o'clock this morning the tempera-
ture was from to 10 degrees higher than
normal for that hour throughout the south
west. The mercury stood at 81 In this city,
at so in st. Joseph, Mo-; 70 at Omaha and
30 at Wichita, Kan; Springfield, NO.: Ok
lahoma City. LATHE Rock. Ark, and Fort
Worth. Tex. There were no ind cations of
rain. the forecaster sad. and the prob
alb Titles are that today's temperature would
crowd closely the highest of yesterday,
which was l04
The temperature here reached 1O1 de-
grees al 1880 p. m. and by LIS had fallen
% 90.
Eight Deaths In Chicago.
CHICAGO. July 3-Today was the hot
test of the year and followed the hottest
night ever experienced in the city, Eight
deaths were reported TO the police and
there were hundreds of prostrations. At
o. m. the temperature was officially reg
istered at 10S degrees at the strest leve
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There were seven deaths from heat and
eight prostratlons Sunday. The death
rate among babies is extremely high since
the beginning of the hot wave,
Two stricken mt Iowa city.
IOWA CITY, Ia. July s.-(Special Tele.
gram.l-The Thermometer registered 100 de
grees this morning at IL o'clock. George M
Kenyon. aged s. years. was stricken with
the heat and probably will die. William
Nicholson. A years old. went insane from
the heat and disappeared. 1t is feared he
committed suicide by drowning.
Two Deaths A. 81. Louis.
ST LOUIS July 3-The heat wave en-
bnued over eastern Missouri and southern
illinois today. Here last night the gov
ernment theI mometer d not fall below Z
aud at o'clock this morning re sistere,
q. At 1890 the Temperature was "a an,
rising, Police reports say that two mel
died last night from heat
Heavy Rains In AFisona.
PHOENIX, Ariz.. July S.-A record
breaking rainstorm in this section begin
ming Just after midnight Saturday ende'
at $3.50 a. m yesterday after doing thou
sands of dollars worth OF damage.
Lower levels OF Phoenix were floods
from one To three feet by torrents sweep
ing down from the Phoenix mountains tel
miles 10 the north. Large areas OF farr
land and the Arizona. Grand and Sal
river irrigation canals were washed over
Adobe houses in the path OF the foo
were leveled.
Presentations At Harvard.
HARVARD. Neb., July 2.-(special)-
Overcome by the heat. John T. Fleming
was compelled 10 leave his office and &
70 his home. where he died at 4 o'eloc