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Show Intense heat"""" le a v esfatal it 1 es HOTTEST JULY 22 ON RECORD IN MANY SECTIONS OF THE EAST; BUSINESS STOPS Exact List Of Dead Impossible To Compile; Showers Are Predicted. Temperature Was 100 At Many Points New York The hottest July 22 j ever recorded in most sections of the east passed with long promised cooling cool-ing showers still only a hope. As the trend of summer's most intense in-tense heat wave drew to a close, it left in its wake a record of offices an dindustrial plants closes, of men and women prostrated at their work and on the streets, of drownings among crowds that surged to seaside and lake front, of both animals and humans demented by the scorching weather. Although suffering was intense Wednesday, Wed-nesday, temperatures were generally l several points higher Thursday. R.ec-1 R.ec-1 ords of 100 were unusual and scattered I before, but on Thursday such tempera-rures tempera-rures became the rule rather than the ' exception. From all the reports of prostrations, J drownings, suicides, deaths of persons already ill, all to some extent attributed attrib-uted to the weather, it was impossible to compile any accurate list of deaths, for which the heat could be held directly di-rectly and solely responsible. In various places in New York, New England and Pennsylvania stores and industrial plants closed their doors so that the employees might seek what relief was possible. New York City experienced its hottest hot-test July 22 since the weather bureau has been in operation. After a rushing rush-ing start with a 10-degree rise in three hours in the morning, the mercury reached 97 degrees at 3 o'clock. |