Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-23
HEAT WAVE TAKES
TOLL Of FIFTY N|EE;
RAIN IS PREDICTED
Iorrid Weather Continues
While Thousands Seek Re-
lief by Sleeping in Parks
and Along Beaches

WASHINGTON, June. 2t.-Fifty.
= nine persons have persisted as a re-
suit of the heat wave sweeping a
great part of the United States.
These casualties occurred in Mis-
souri,, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, New
York, Massachusetts, and Pennsyl-
vania.
! Suffocating heat was .'eported
throughout the east and middle
west. Thousands of sufferers slept
on beaches along the Atlantic coast
and in big cities the parks were
thrown open for, the same purpose.
This is the longest day of the year
and it started out with even higher
yesterday. More deaths and pros
trations are considered inevitable if
the hea4 continues.
TWENTY-FIVE SUCCUMB
IN WAVE GRIPPING OHIO
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 21.-Th9
death toll of the heat wave which
has held Ohio in it's grip since Mon
day today stood at %.
Continuation of the scorching
weather for the remainder of the
week is predicted by weather bu-
reau officials.
Temperatures as high as So pre-
vailed in many sections of >the state
yesterday.
Concrete pavement, east of Ere.
mont, expanding under the heat,
exploded" just as an automobile,
driven by Leo Jeffrey was passing.
The machine-was ditched and dam
aged. but Jeffrey escaped serious in.
Jury.
CHICAGO REPORTS
SEVENTEEN DEATHS
CHICAGO, June 21.-No break in
the heat wave which has held Chi
cago and vicinity in its grasp since
Monday, was seen in weather fore
casts today. Seventeen persons have
died in Chicago since Monday from
heat prostration. The temperature
yesterday climbed to IS degrees,
three degrees cooler than the max
imum for the week.
SEVEN DIE IN NEW YORK
FROM HEAT PROSTRATION
NEW YORK, June 21.-Seven
deaths are reported as a result of
the heat wave which enveloped
New York yesterday and today, in
q statement issued from the medi-
cal examiners office. The Their
mometer registered 81 degrees in
the shade at S:45 o'clock this morn
Ing. The weather bureau announced
fair and continued warm weather
for today and tomorrow with no re-
lief from the heat in sight.
Fifteen thousand persons, mostly
women and children, slept on the
beach at Coney Island last night to
escape the warmest temperature of
the year, and thousands more aWoke
today on other beaches and in parks
of the metropolitan district.
Of the % victims. whose deaths
were either directly or indirectly
caused by the torrid wave, eight
were victims OF heat prostrations,
eleven were drowned, two commit
ted suicide and one was killed by
lightning.
BOSTON REPORTS HOTTEST
DAY IN FOUR YEARS
BOSTON, Mass, June 21.-Nine
persons have died and scores been
Frustrated as a result of the terrific
heat wave which has gripped New
England for three days.
Today gave every indication of
being even warmer than yesterday
when the mercury climbed to 96,
the hottest day in four years.
PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL
CLOSES ON ACCOUNT OF HEAT
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 21.-
All public schools in Philadelphia
were closed for the day at noon be-
cause ef ta+ contfnu-1 intense heat
that has enveloped this section for
several days. At noon today the tenn
perature was 8 2degrees the same as
at noon yesterday. The maximum
yesterday was SO.
NASHVILLE REPORTS RAPID
RISE IN TEMPERATURE
NASHVILLE, Tenn, June 21.-
The government thermometer regis
tered go degrees at noon, a rise Of
20 degrees since O'Clock.