The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-06-30
Heroic Rescues at Watering
Places Are Reported
Marinette Mother Saves
Two Children, Losing
Two-Four Men Perish
in Attempts at Rescue
TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY

CHICAGO, June zs.-Baking. smoth-
erins heat, rapidly maturing the
crops but dealing death and illness 70
humans, continues 70 envelop all Of
the middle and central west. Ten
deaths reported today bring the total
in nve days up to 40.
In Chicago suburbs today thermom-
eters registered 1o4 in the shade but
in that portion OF the city within a
quarter OF mile OF the lake a breeze
proved great relief
The night was intensely hot leaving
the gasping population exhausted for
today's struggle, but the fact it was a
holiday cut down the fatalities and
prostrations.
Thousands fought for places on the
lake steamers and at the bathing
beaches. while the parks and summer
gardens were crowded to the limit all
Gay and night In the congested dis
tricts infant mortality is appalling and
the health department says it Will con-
tinue TO grow until the heat siege Is
broken, as ba bies, improperly nour-
ished aud the victims Of insanitaFy
conditions, speedily perish after they
are once stricken by heat. Prostra-
tons throughout the middle west num-
Der hundreds.
There vas an unusual number of
drownings. which can be traced to the
heat. as the victims were seeking relief
from the torridity Early this even,
ing these drownings had been reported:
Terre Haute, .: Cedar Lake, >; Flint
lake. Ind. >; Marinette, Wis, .; Eu-
reka Ill. ?: Philadelphia, 3; Milwau-
kee. Wis. 1; Springfield, l.
At Marinette two girls drowned, but
their mother succeeded in swimming to
safety with two other children
In Eureka, ILL.,. boy drowned in
reseuing a comrade, and in Philadelphia
two brothers perished rescuing others,
while a short distance away a man gave
up his life while rescuing another.
Relief Is Near
WASHINGTON, June 2s.-An end /.
in sight to the hot wave that has held
sway over the central states for sew
eral days.
In its weekly bulletin tonight the
weather bureau predicted that the ex-
treme heat would be broken in the
plains states Monday or Tuesday. and
that cool wave then would move
slowly eastward. The forecast says:
The distribution Of atmospheric
pressure over the North American con-
tinent and the adjacent oceans is such
as to indicate break in the hot wave
over the plains states Monday and
Tuesday and the Mississippi valley and
the upper lake region Tuesday or
Wednesday, followed by moderate tenn
peratures In these districts during sew
eral days.
"over the Rocky mountains region
and on the Pacific slope temperatures
will average below the normal.
The rainfall during the week will
be generally light and local
Heat Victims Drown
LA CROSSE. wis, June 2s.-The
Mississippi river claimed three VIC
TINS today, all of whom sought relief
from the heat in the cool waters.
Street thermometers registered los.
20 Are Frustrated
ST. PAUL Mimi, June 2s.-More than
90 heat prostrations were reported to-
day in addition to two drownings. The
maximum temperature in Minneapolis
was "a, while the highest government
registration here was 80.
Four Die in Joliet
JOLIET. ILL.,. June 29.--Four persons
died To-Day from the heat and seven
J more are reported near death. The
temperature on the street reached 80
degrees. Several others were reported
Frustrated