The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-12
HIGH MARK OF
122 Above SET
BY HEAT WAVE
Scores Die as Sun BIazeS
PitileSSIy Down on
Parched Midwest.
ST. LOUIS TOLL is is
List of DroWningS Grows
Appalling: Relief Hope
Is Faint.

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CHICAGO. July 12.-Throughout
the parched midwest and south, the
summers worst heat wave con-
tinued today. with relief coming TO
only a few scattered sections.
More than 100 deaths have been
reported since the s~ufocating hot
weather began to sweep the plains
a week ago, running temperatures
up daily to new high marks.
At Sikeston, Mo-, Friday. the sea-
sons heat record was established
when the mercury climbed to the
i22-degree mark, enough" as one
observer put it, TO drive any man to
suicide"
And suicide was the avenue of
escape which John r. Ringwalt, 70,
Of Omaha, chose. He survived
Thursdays temperature of 1O4, but
left home Friday after telling his
wife that he could not stand
another day Of it" and his body was
found a while later, a bullet through
the head.
16 Dead i'm st. Louis
Sixteen persons died in st. Louis
Friday, either directly or indirectly
from heat prostration. This made
the total fo- the year twenty-nine.
The official temperature of 1912 late
Friday, was the highest since 1901.
AS thousands of distressed citi-
zers sought relief in the lakes and
rivers. the list of drownings grew so
rapidly that it became appalling.
More than a dozen such deaths were
reported IN the southwest, and in
Iowa alone six persons died Of heat
prOstration.
The unofficial list of deaths Fri
day night IT. the midwest showed
thirty-six from heat prostration
and seventy six drownings since the
rave started last Sunday.
Throughout the vast southwest,
south and middlewest. crops
suffered from the b~listering sun. In
Kansas it was so hot the farmers
dared not send their men into the
fields for any great length of time
and the wheat harvest was delayed.
Some took advantage of the noon
light and did their harvesting at
night.
Chicago Escapes Brunt
At Benton. H. the Evening News
declared it was too hot to work"
and announced it would go to press
at 1890 p. m. during the remainder
of July.
Chicago continued to escape the
heat wave because of cooling
breezes of Lake Michigan and the
maximum temperature here Friday
was rs. but the weather man said
it would be warmer today. The
cool area" did not. however. ex-
tend far and a comparative few
miles from the city. temperatures
in keeping with the rest of the mid
west we're reported.
In some sections of Tennessee
and Louisiana, hail and transforms
brought relief and rain swept over
small sections Of the west. but the
south and west. for the most part,
suffered with the midwest and
southwestern states.
Above loo in South
Greenwood. Miss. with a tenn
perature of 1Os. was believed the
hottest place in the south. Jackson,
Miss, and Montgomery. Ala. were
close behind. It was 104 in each
city.
Among other cities where high
temperatures were reported were:
Harrisburg. Ill. ITO: Mt. Vernon,
Ill. 10S; Emporia. Kan, los: st.
Louis. 1O3: Kansas City, 100; Huron.
S. D.. 100: Council Bluffs. Ia, 104:
Des Moines. IO4: Centralia. Ill, los:
Vickshurg. BIRMINGHAM and Spring
field md. 100; Memphis. 102; Lit
tie Rock, loo.