Show HEAT WAVES AVES ARE SWEEP ING EAST FEARFUL HUMIDITY BRINGS TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL TO TO- TAL DEATHS FOR TWO DAYS TO THIRTY PERSONS Stifling Canopy of Clouds Cau Causes e Prostration In Hundreds of Cas Cases a aNew New York York Relentless Relentless choking heat beat continued Its ita torture of or the eastern states bringing death to more than twenty persons and making a toll of or more than thirty for the three-day three liege siege Piercing a heavy stifling canopy canopy canopy can can- opy of or clouds and humidity the vicIous vicious vicious vic vic- ious solar intensity prostrated hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- hunI I I taxing hospital facilities in inmany inmany inmany many cities Although promised thunderstorms which were expected to cool the burning burnIng burning burn burn- ing area proved fickle the weather bureau predicted electrical storms which would be more faithful and andrain andrain andrain rain began falling taIlIng in New York in the evening bringing a slight decrease In temperature The storms that swept northern New York and New England caused three deaths and great damage but brought lower temperatures only in inthe inthe inthe the Lake Ontario region Despite the promise of or rain and cooler temperature thousands of or New Yorkers flocked to the beaches again preparing to sleep on the sands It U was estimated that more than persons spent the night on the sands of or Cone Coney Island |