Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-08
YESTERDAYS HEAT
BROKE ALL RECORDS
Never Before Has the Tempera-
ture Risen SO High: Passed 100
Degrees; Was Broken.

Washington. Aug Shattering all
previous observed records of high tenn
pcraturcs, most of which were built up
| Tuesday, prevailing hot wave yesterday
drew To n climax over the Atlantic Coast
area north OF Norfolk. Va, and last night
was being destroyed III n series of self
| induced thundcrst0rmS
| Philadelphia, with an official tcmpcra-
| ture of 100 degrees: Atlantic City, with
| l04, and New York, with l02, set new
| records the Weather Bureau reported
| Washington showed 104i2, in comparison
with l06 Tuesday
\ new centre of low atmospheric pres
| sure formed over the New England States,
the experts said, and continued the
fumacc-hkc drawing of heated air out Of
the mid-cOntlncnt section during the day.
But the heated blanket close to the carths
surface. expanding upward. finally dis
played cold air in the high levels. and
thundcrstorms broke at several widely
separated points
The outlook is still for high tcmpera-
tuers, Weather Bureau officials said, but
the present torrld wave Is broken
The heat wave Yesterday, the third Of
ITS sway, struck merclcssly into the miles
of temporary harrack buildings in Wash
mgton. where war workers are employed
There were no deaths. but much suffering.
Temperatures Of ia degrees again were
recorded here. a force of tho physicians
and Sc nurses working from As rest
rooms, were occupied through out the day
the Surgeons generals office reported. and
when extra cots were used Red Cross am
bulanccs were pressed into service
Sections of some bureaus closed during
the afternoon, but in other the work was
considered too pressing, ms IN the Depart
ment OF State, War and Navy Building,
where the casualty lists from France are
being compiled
Philadelphia, Aug. S.-Thc government |
thermometer yesterday afternoon after |
noon recorded l06 degrees, breaking all |
local heat records. The suffering was so |
intense at Hog Island that the great ship |
yard was shut down nj 3 D. m, about |
p 900 men being sent home.
The high temperature also had its effect |
upon other industrial plants and estab-
ishments, and hundreds of workers were
forced to quit At noon four deaths and |
many prostrations had been reported
Chicago. Aug. S.-Littlc relief was ex-
in Chicago and the Middle
" est generally from the hot wave which
has prevailed in this section for three
days. In Chicago the temperature at
D. IN. was %, five degrees cooler than at
he same hour Tuesday Six deaths
yesterday brought the total fatalities in
1hicago up to II. Several hundred heat
1rostrations have been reported.
Crop reports issued at Springfield, Ill,
sserted that corn in the central and
outhern portions of the State was
almost ruined" and great damage to the
orn crop in Iowa was reported by the
-rop Bureau at Des Moines
Winchester, Va, Aug. s. S-Apples cook
ng on the trees In the great orchard
egion of Northern Virginia, is one of the
reaks of nature being caused by the hot
pell. State Fuel Administrator Byrd is
isplaying fruit from his orchard, where
he thermometer registered 120 degrees
q the sun, which has been thoroughly
zzled if it actually has not been baked,
nd other growers say the fruits are being !
hreatened with ruin. Other growing S
rops are whitening under the hot wave.
Albany, n. Y, Aug S.-Ihe official
thermometer registered l02 at the local
Gather Bureau at $50 p m. today.
his was the highest temperature since
uly 4, 1911, when the mercury climbed I
} l04.