The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-07-16
WEATHER BUREAU
SAYS RELIEF WILL
ARRIVE BY FRIDAY
Showers Early Thursday Fail to
Halt Rise of Thermometers
in State
ALL SECTIONS benefited
Some Sections Establish New
AlI-Time Marks; Aberdeen,
S. D., Reports ia
ALL SECTIONS Benefited

S. D., Reports ia
General showers throughout North
Dakota failed to bring relief from
sizzling temperatures Thursday and
Bismarck and vicinity faced another
day Of hot weather.
Relief Is In sight, however, with
local weather bureau officials pre-
dieting the Thermometer will begin
falling tonight and that relatively cool
weather will prevail Friday.
Twenty-six hundredths OF an inch
OF rain fell here early Thursday morn
ing as severe electrical disturbances
kept most Of the city awake.
Williston received but .02 inches,
while Ray and Temple In williams
county each received an inch and q
half Of moisture, unofficial reports
estimated.
The rain extended in lighter a.
mounts from Wheelock, also In Will
llams county. to New Rockford. The
area OF precipitation extended north
ward through Grenora, Zahl and
Crosby, with an estimated inch of
rain at Grenora and Zahl and an
official recording Of ~ at Crosby.
Flaxton and Ambrose reported rain,
with the fall at Ambrose being heavy.
No hail at any point In the state
had been reported to the local
weather bureau.
Devils Lake reported the most
severe electrical storm Of the season.
Lightning caused a barn to burn near
that city.
The mercury reached 100 desrees
at Hankinson Wednesday, which was
believed to be q record for that To-
cality, while Cakes sweltered under
temperatures which reached l0e. At
Glendale los was reported. Lisbon
recording 102; and the Moorhead-
Fargo station 102.
| At Grand Forks the mercury hit
a maximum Of 100 degrees, tiein1 the
1921 record for the hottest day In 10
years.
Baking temperatures were reported
in South Dakota Tuesday with Aber-
deem reporting temperatures Of ia
degrees, and Pierre Ill. the highest
IN the history Of either city.
Record Set In Chicago
Chicago had its highest July IS on
record, outdoing the 1887 mark by
reaching 81. Torrid weather was re-
ported generally through Illinois,
wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and othe,
middle western states.
Two deaths in North Dakota Tues
day were attributed to the heat and
Lewis Kimball. 10. lies in a Fargo
hospital q victim Of sunstroke. The
dead are John Baum, IS, who died
after collapsing in West Fargo and
Sam Arnson. so, Marvel, drowned
after he was seized with cramps in
the Red River near Marvel.
In Chicago four were dead from
heat; In downstate Illinois, one; in
| Michigan one; and in Indiana, two.
Lightning SCARED trees and build
ings. a burned awning on the capitol
and a shattered hickory In the White
House grounds were the work Of an
electrical thunderstorm that broke
late yesterday ~ Washington.
Hail and high wind accompanied
a pelting rain. The temperatures
dropped from SO degrees to 70 within
two hours, bringing relief from high
temperatures.
Capitol building police reported
lightning had fired the awnings out
side the office Of chairman McFad-
/ den Of the house banking committee
near the middle Of the westside Of
the structure. Witnesses insisted the
goddess Of freedom on the dome was
struck. but do damage was reported.
The high mark In the northwest
Wednesday va ia at Aberdeen. In
Minnesota, the highest temperature
was lot at Campbell. New Ulm had
a maximum OF 104. Montevideo los
and Ada, Alexandria, Minneapolis,
Park Rapids and Pipestone. each lo1.
and Detroit Lakes 100.
S. D. Warm All Over
Other high temperatures In South
Dakota Wednesday were Pierre III,
Huron and Milbank 100. Mobridge
104, Sioux Falls 102. and Fairfax and
Rapid City 100.
A windstorm In the Crookston,
Mimi, vicinity blew down trees, broke
windows. and some crop damage was
reported.
Thomas Norby, 50. dropped dead
wednesday as he stepped from his
automobile In front Of his home at
Plummer, MINI.
Continued rains brought further
relief to tho scorched south. Mobile,
Ala, reported . downpour Of 6.S4
inches
Five Minnesotans died. directly or
indirectly from the heat according to
physicians. In the last - hours.