The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
EAST WITHERS
AS RAINS END
MIDWEST HEAT
Whole Atlantic Seaboard Is
SWeItering in Seasons
First Torrid Wave.
DEATH TOLL is HEAVY
Twenty-Five Lives Are
Taken in Chicago; Jam
Beaches for Relief.

BJ Lnited Press
CHICAGO, July s-The whole
Eastern half of the United States
was sweltering today.
Thunder showers and hail broke
the heat wave in the midwest during
the night, but from the Atlantic sea-
board inland as far as Ohio temper
atures remained high.
Twenty-nine deaths, including ten
drownings, were attributed to heat
over the week end at Chicago.
Attendance records at Chicago
beaches we're shattered Sunday.
More than 100000 persons sought
relief from the heat. The mercury
rose to 95.
Fire plugs we're opened through
out the city to flood pavements.
Highways leading from the city
were jammed as 100000 picnickers
sought shaded spots in the country.
East Is Steaming
The first oppressive heat wave Of
the year lay like steaming blanket
over the Eastern coast today.
The weather bureau predicted that
the temperature, which reached a
seasonal high of 81 degrees in New
York Sunday, would be reduced to-
night by thundershowers The mer-
curry was climbing rapidly at mid
day and threatened to reach SO
or 81.
New York morgues held the bodies
Of twelve persons who had met
death in the metropolitan area Sum
day while seeking relief from the
suns rays Three died of heat pros
tration and twelve by drowning.
At Coney Island, which experi-
enced one Of the largest crowds in
its history, bathers stood shoulder
to shoulder in the surf. The crowd
was so dense that swimming was
impossible.
In the thickly populated sections
men and women slept in parks and
on fire escapes and roofs.
Scantily dressed children in the
tenement districts clustered around
fire hydrants where merciful firemen
turned water on them.
Sixteen Dead in Chic
Railroads subways, elevated and
bus lines we're crowded all day as
the city's millions fought for trans
portation to watering places and
later struggled to get back home
again.
The most intense heat wave Of the
year gripped Ohio over the week
end, leaving a toll of sixteen dead.
Seven were drowned and six died
from the heat. Three we're killed in
automobile accidents.
Thousands upon thousands Of au-
tomobileS jammed the highways,
making movement Of traffic pre-
carious, and beaches were taxed to
capacity by thousands seeking relief
from the heat.
A temperature of SO degrees al
Detroit Sunday broke the years
heat record and sent hundreds of
thousands to beaches and the coun-
tryside to escape torrid weather in
the city One death was caused by
heat, bringing the total fatalities to
ten for he las week.
Three hundred thousands persons
visited Belle Island Sunday.
log Degrees at Phoenix
The weather bureau at Washing
ton announced that temperatures
at 8 a. m. today were from 3 to 10
degrees higher than Sunday at that
hour in the North Atlantic and New
England States.
Sundays highest reported teni-
perature we're LOG at Phoenix and
Yuma, Ariz., 102 at Fresno, Cal, and
100 at El Paso, Texas.
Almost every State in Middle
West, East, South and in the Rocky
Mountain zone suffered tempera-
tllreS of on Or more