Show ST LOUIS IN THE LEAD AN EASY EA Y EMINENCE rn IS TEE E HEAT CONTEST street thermometers marked degrees in the shade many pros orations trat ions from heat heal st louis AUK aug 8 this week lias has been one of the hottest hollest on record in st boulb for many years today tor for tho the third successive day st louis led the entire country at 7 7 am L with it a temperature pera ture of 0 86 degrees prom front then on to I 1 this afternoon the tempera tuie title rose itt at tile the rate of one degree or more bit an hour at that time elers an n tho the signal servi service eft bureau registered degrees decrees in the shade the highest point of tile the day the record on oil lie ilia streets in exposed was mas oner oer there were nere a great many more prostrations prost rations today a number of 0 then them resulting lit in death telegrams from points in Fou southern thern illinois show dhow that ane intense heat heal still prevails there anti and that many tlona I 1 resulted the hottest wp weather athel of 0 the season at springfield was recorded today it being 93 in the shade the bahash railway shops there closed temporarily business was almost suu site penceil at and two morl men dropped dead from tile effect ot of tile treat at th the past week nook has been one of hot weather me other the th 0 liaa has gone above ino in th the P shade daily and alid reached im yesterday the record today was wag there hane hai e beert been many prostrations prost rations from the heat beat there but none onit onh ive proved f fatal a tat the city hospital ho Is overcrowded ded nath w alth prostration cases that thai have rare been beell coming lit in ill the past two 1 tt I cells and there Is kc arcely I Y room ronni tor for runic city physicians I say AY the like ike his 11 riot not been beell known before for many deais at the ohp morgue bodies are broucht lit in so fast that the superintendent had hard work keeping track ol of then and lie Is crowded fr far room at one time today there were nere twenty seven evert corpses e awaiting identification today tile the list of th bo who buo suc climbed to theli heat and died Is as to follows george jefferson an bred colored man in A n boettger bakr baker bak r joseph nicy bley baker henry albers frank stool ute late of 0 chicago and su sn of tho ali iron construction of 0 the century toll dinc martin bmartin wall foreman of 0 street q mrs eliza jolina john baumley naum ly laborer mrs mary biary carl kohler aged G A n veteran W W BIon tross bookkeeper for rai ic livery stable mable alm ikles helen wallerton walkerton thomas fogleman Oc Og leman laborer edward ednard monk mackle albrae unknown man mail A tali gram froni from 11 oberly states nat tile tho wabash abash shops there havo have been closed on account of the heat one thousand men are arc idle |