The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-07
CITY SUFFERING
INTENSE With
HEAT SOARING
High Humidity Causes
Three to Collapse; Mer-
curry at So.

High humidity and temperature
of SO degrees at l this afternoon
caused intense suffering in Indian
apolis from the continued heat wave,
Three persons we're overcome by
heat as the official United States
weather bureau thermometer went
to the 96-degree mark from a low
mark of rs degrees at Z this morn
ing, a, rise of 81 degrees in four
hours.
Elmer Hollwell, so, of 1877 Laurel
street. was in critical condition at
city hospital after collapsing in the
$4,000 block Prospect street.
Within five minutes of HollwelIS
collapse, James Demetri, SO, OF
Gary, Ind, collapsed of heat pros
tration at Indiana avenue and
Michigan street.
Southern Indiana Parched
At the same time Miss Helen
Vandevee, %, of 1545 Finley avenue,
was overcome by heat at Maryland
and Pennsylvania streets. She re-
covered sufficiently to be taken
home.
Light to medium rainfall in
northern and central Indiana
during the twenty-four-hour period
ending at 7 this morning gave no
relief from the heat. Drought
baked southern Indiana reported no
rain and no hope was held cut for
rainfall there by the weather bureau
here today.
Cloudy skies early today resulted
in, temperatures of IS degrees at Z
but the government thermometer
made big jump between 8 and
this morning, reaching "a degrees
at 9.
With partly cloudy and somewhat
unsettled weather predicted for to-
night and Friday, little change IN
temperature is expected throughout
the state, according to United States
weather bureau officials.
Overnight rainfall was reported
from the following cities and towns,
largely in eastern and northeastern
Indiana:
South Bend, $50 inch; Angola, &c
inch: Wheatfeld, 01 inch; FIT
Wayne, Is inch; Royal Center, .O4
inch; Marion, .o4 inch; Lafayette,
Oh inch; Farmland, 1.04 inches;
Cambridge City. .O8 inch; Indian
apolis, 03 inch; Columbus, IA inch;
Madison, OF inch; Paoli, oil inch.
Trucks Ordered to Haul Water
The rain at Columbus was ac-
companied by a terrific electrical
storm.
Fifty army corps tank trucks have
been ordered by the war department
to haul water to drought stricken
farms in Clark county, southeast
ern Indiana, for drinking purposes.
Crops in that area are total loss.
Corn and tomato crops in Gibson,
Vanderburg and Posey counties have
been destroyed.
Promises of cooperation by
railways serving the drought area
have made possible government re-
lief plans for transportation OF
foodstuffs for livestock and ship
ment of livestock out of the region.
Reduction of freight rates are prob
able, according to dispatches from
Washington, and funds will be ad-
vanced by the federal farm board
where cooperative associations
exist.
Fire Takes 100000 Toll
Fires are raging in many sections
of the nation. Timber worth $780,
900 was destroyed by fire in west
ern Maryland Wednesday.
Marion, Ill, was the hottest place
in the United States Wednesday
with maximum temperature OF 100
degrees. Evansville, Ind, reported
a l02 degree mark; tying with St
Louis, Keokuk, Ia, and Birmingham
Ala.
Heat deaths for the week passed
the 100 mark, according to figures
compiled in Chicago.