South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-01
Temperature Here Goes to
the 81 Degree Mark, AC-
COrding to the Thermometer
at the Weather Bureau.
MUCH HOTTER IN THE
BUSINESS SECTION
Chicago Reports IS Deaths
From the Heat While Indiana
Towns Experience Hottest
Weather in Years.

The weather man continued TO let
loose on the city again Monday with
record temperature. The mercury
stood at the 81 degree mark at 8
o'clock in the afternoon. Sunday It
reached the 81 mark, making a rec
ord which has never been beaten dur
ing June.
Even though dark clouds appeared
in the northwest late Monday and
people thought that rain Would come
even though in the eleventh hour Of
the month, the dry spell continued up
to the last 1t made the dryest month
ever recorded for June by Weather
Observer Swain.
Continued hot weather without rain
has caused the streets and alleys to
be filed with innumerable bugs. Rain
will Kill them.
FORTY-SIX DEAD.
CHICAGO, July l. - Forty-six
persons are known to have died here
today as a result of the intense heat
This number includes only the cases
reported by the coroner and the pO-
lice and it is expected will be IN
creased by reports of private physi-
clans.
OF these deaths 50 were the direct
result Of heat strokes, five persons
committed suicide, as a result Of the
heat and two deaths were of chill
dren seeking relief. This was the
hottest June day recorded in this city
since the government records were
begun in 1872. Ninety-nine degrees
were registered by the government
thermometer above the weather bu-
reau. The government thermometer
on the street level showed a tempera-
ture of 1O2 degrees. The heat last
n 20
/ by a breeze.
More than 100 cases of heat pros
| tratiOns were reported TO the police
Monday. Hospital ambulances han
dies as many more and all the hos
pitals in the city are filled Monday
night with those stricken in the
streets.
Extra police crews were detailed to
ambulance duty and patrol wagons as
well as the regular ambulances were
called into use to carry heat victims
to their homes or to hospitals.
Reports from Coroner Hoffman in
dicate that few persons under 40
years of age had been seriously af-
| fected by the heat. The average age
of those who died was 90 years.
Slight relief arrived Monday night
when the effect of thunder showers
along the upper lake region was felt
/ here. At o'clock the temperature
/ fell from 95 to So degrees in little
more than an hour.
INDIANAPOLIS. July IA brisk
/ breeze and a threatening thunder
storm put a little ginger into living
! for people of Indianapolis Monday
night after four days OF baking under
I a torrid sun that sent the thermom-
/ eter TO new June records.
The government thermometer
\ fa.1 IA. 0N Il errH a.. l.,
I here I'm June I'm 70 years. and 103 de-
I grees was registered on the street
\ level
| Several cases of prostration were
reported and a negro was drowned in
| White river Monday night where he
was cooling of. The weather pre-
| dictiOn for Tuesday is cooler with
| thunder storms.
From other sections Of the state
/ reports of storms We're received. At
/ Princeton a hard rain and wind storm
/ did much minor damage and light
\ ming struck the Mount Taber church
near Wheeling. Evansville had a Sc
we're rain and wind storm that did
/ much damage and a hard rain at
/ Bloomington relieved the suffering
I there after three days OF sizzling
! heat.
At TT. Wayne il was the hottest
/ June day in the history Of that wealth
/ er bureau, the mercury reaching 80
/ degrees and 109 on the street level.
I Six prostrations were reported there.
! At Wabash there We're two prostra-
/ tiOns from temperature of 101. and
| at Lawrenceburg Edward Ennis. "A
1 telegraph operator. was drowned
\ while swimming.
At Bedford il was the hottest day
/ Of the season the heat reaching 106
and causing two proStratiOnS.
Elmer Robinson. i years old. was
I drowned while swimming at Frank
/ fort, and Paul Frazer. Is, met a SIM
\ liar fate near Tafavatte