The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-21
many SECTIONS ARE
COUNTING TOLL IN
lives AND M0NE'
Deaths Caused, Crops De-
stroyed, Millions Discomfort.
ed by High Temperatures
NEAR NORTHWEST IS COOL
Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and
West Virginia See Red in
Their Thermometers
NEAR NORTHWEST is COOL

The nations weather remained to-
day a burning issue.
Excepting only the ocean-favored
New England and Pacific coast states
and the near northwest, every section
OF the country had 100-degree tenn
peratures facing it again, following a
sun-seared Sabbath. Each section.
too. counted the cost in lives lost.
crops destroyed and in the millions
disconnected.
A survey Of the 48 states amounted.
In essence. to the simple grammatical
Job of comparing an adjective-hot,
hotter, hottest. Columbus, O., with
an official liz degrees. rated the su-
p~erlative. Virginia, Maryland, West
Virginia saw red In their thermom-
eters at 106 or better.
Official readings Of 100 degrees or
higher were taken In the states of
Ohio, Michigan. West Virginia, Kan
sas, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa.
Nebraska. Missouri, Arizona, Califor-
MIA and In the District of Columbia.
II readings Of 90 were included, it
would add the states of Pennsylvania,
Texas. Tennessee, and Oklahoma.
Deaths Are Numerous
Deaths were reported from widely
separated sections. There were manv
drownings. as the nations swimming
pools and beaches swarmed with holi-
day millions. ~Prostrations, too. were
numerous, for the sun beat down
cruelty almost everywhere.
The northwest, which has had It's
I'LL Of hot weather this season, gained
relief yesterday when eevere wind and
rain storms swept sections of that
country. The fortunate few In Mich
igan's upper peninsula, sandwiched
between Lakes Superior and MICHIGAN.
enjoyed temperatures in the upper
sixties. 80.
The heaa wave viii be broken late
today or tonight in a large part o.
the north central states, the Chicago
f~orecaster prophesied. Predictions for
Kansas; Nebraska, the Dakotas. Wis
consin and Illinois carried such en-
couraging phrases as somewhat COOL
err" and "seasonable temperatures"
The break In the heat had penetrated
into western Iowa last night.
The double damage OF heat ana
drought was noted in many grain
states. In Iowa, particularly, the
fired corn threatened serious loss to
farmers unless benevolent rains fall
soon. An unofficial observer in Iowa
reported finding top soil In corn fields
at a temperature Of IA degrees.
The Iowa corn loss, some agricul-
turists estimated, already amounts to
one bushel an acre and II the drought
extends much longer the estimated
loss will be doubled, they said.
William Clapper, president Of a cor
poration operating five canneries In
Iowa, said the states crop for can
ming, including sweet corn, has been
damaged 20 to 50 per cent. Ohio and
Kansas, as well as several southern
states. face crop loss unless showers
soon supplant the sun.
Though the middlewest was hang
ing groggy on the ropes from three
successive days Of 100 degrees or bet
ter, some sections Of the parched
countryside were accorded relief as
showers knocked down the mercury
to the late 70s from marks Of 100.
Bismarck Is Comfortable
Bismarck and North Dakota were
particularly fortunate in getting cool
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