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Show CENTRAL STATES HAVE BAD STOHM nF ATH TOLL REACHES TWENTY-TWO TWENTY-TWO AS TERRIFIC W,ND3 VISITS ILLINOIS c-ht Are Drowned Seeking Relief Et H' Water; Rain, Bring Relief To Burning Crops Chicago, Ill.-Eighteen persons are dead and nearly a score seriously m rth Middle West s Tuesday and caused its residents to await promised cooler weather with panting breath From the Nebraska fcuim Ohio the heat was general. In sev- al places it set records for the year and for June firsts of all recorded time Then the humidity which covered' cov-ered' the ceneral states like the proverbial pro-verbial blanket, was pierced here and there by thunder showers and terri-ic terri-ic gales. Mrs Oliver Dinkins, 70, living north of Florence, an Omaha suburb, was killed in a severe storm which demolished de-molished her home. Another person was injured and several other narrowly nar-rowly escaped injury. Mrs Frank Hascher, a farmer's wife, was killed by lightning near Muscatine, Iowa. Sioux City, Iowa, was the center of a violent storm, which extended to eastern South Dakota and southwestern southwest-ern Minnesota. Seven persons were injured, two probably fatally, in the Iowa city and more than a dozen houses were leveled by a wind that blew at the rate of 75 miles an hour for five minutes, and which reached a peak of almost 90 miles. The damage dam-age at Sioux City was estimated at. $100,000. Eastern Iowa from Waterloo Water-loo to Dubuque was visited by a less violent wind and electrical storm, but no serious damage was reported. Two persons were killed during an electrical storm at Des Moines and two men were reported killed near Wavland. Mo., when the car in which they were riding was swept from the road by a high wind. Another wind storm swept over the mining district of southeast Kansas, and southwest Missouri, causing injury to several persons and considerable property-damage. property-damage. Chicago had four deaths attributable attribu-table to the heat and Cleveland one. Eight persons in Wisconsin who sought relief by swimming and boating boat-ing were drowned Sunday and Monday. Mon-day. Heat records for June 1 were broken brok-en in Chicago and Cleveland which had temperatures of 92 and 91, respectively, res-pectively, while Detroit, with 92, came within two degrees to the all-time all-time June 1 mark. Early in the day a cooler breeze came to relieve Chicago's millions. Thunder showers and lower temperatures tempera-tures were forecast for this vicinity. Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska Ne-braska reported that the recent rains brought relief from drought of a few week's duration that retarded growing grow-ing crops. |