New Britain herald., 1925-06-05
ii Die In Pittsburgh

II DlC In PttSDufgn
 Pittsburgh, June 5. (AP)--The heat wave which continued unabat- ed early today with little prospect of relief. Is held accountable for. il deaths and an unaccounted number of prostrations In this district.
 Seven deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours, A youth seek Ing relief from the heat was drown ed In an ice pond and at Morgan town. W. Va, a miner dropped dead in his garden. Two steel workers were stricken at their posts a man fell dead in the street, and two women collapsed in their homes, one at Washington. Pa.
 F While the temperature stood at s5, John Charley, S2 played SS holes of, golf in tournament competition and suffered no i'll effects.
 Chicago, June (AP)-At least r14O persons have died throughout the country in the last few days, due to the heat wave, droughts and storms. or this number. T were in the territory east of Ohio and 6a were in several states from Ohio to 1 Montana.
 Deaths yesterday caused indirect y and directly by the heat were S6 in the east and 24 h the midwest. Twentyone of the mid-wests fa- talities for the period of the heat wave were due to storms in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Montana.
 The weather bureau today predict ed no relief from.ths high tempera- lures for at least two or three days.
 Yesterdays deaths were as fol- lows;
 New York city ', New York state 1, Pittsburg z, Washington ?, Balti more 2. New England 12 New Jer- sey 2; total 36,
 west-Chicago 2, Michigan 4, Ohio 1, Kentucky 7, Missouri 2, Iowa 1, Indiana 1, Minnesota i; to- tai 24.
 New York, June s (AP)-At the end Of the fifth day Of record d-break- ing June heat, the death total in the eastern states stands at II, including drownings.
 Mounting to new high marks for the year, the heat wave yesterday killed 24 persons and indirectly caused the deaths of 12 others. Seven died here, four in New York state: seven in Pittsburgh; two in Washington and Baltimore; 12 in New England and two in New England and two in New Jersey.
 Shops and schools were ordered run on half schedules in scores or cities until the torrid spell Is broken Prostrations were numbered Tn the hundreds, Washington city officials warned that unless the consumption of water was curtailed the city would face a serious water shortage.
 Temperatures 100 degrees or more were recorded at Middletown and Elmira. N. Y, Waterbury and Springfield. Mass, the latter report ISng lO6. In New York city the mer- tcurv hit pS. It was sG in Boston; ss in Philadelphia; eS in Pittsburgh and ss in Baltimore. Buffalo. N. f, and vicinity alone escaped, cool Lake Erie breezes sending the ther- mometers there down 10 67.
 Thousands of the city's swelter- ing millions spent the night in the parks. The captain Of an arriving fruit steamer anchored the vessel out in the bay for fear the fruit would spoil before being unloaded today. Yale and Harvard crews priminE up for their regatta near New Haven curtailed practice dur ing the day and worked out last night.
 Chicago, June E. \(AP)--After nearly a week of continued torrid weather, the middle west today gave up hope of an immediate drop in the temperature. Chicago yesterday had a maximum temperature of s49 while Decatur. in north central Ill., inois where there are no breezes from a Great Lake to temper the heat, had ss. new record for June {. Kentucky too was swelterinE, with Louisville bearing up under a es degrees, A high Of sS in Cleve- land also was high for all June recorded officially, Other cities in the torrid area have reported tenn peratures slightly higher each twen- fyy four houFE