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Show MANY DEATHS DUE TD THE HOT WEflTHEH Scores of People Prostrated in Chicago; Rain in Missouri and Kansas. By Associated Press. CHICAGO. June 10. Four deaths were caused by the extreme heat today and the number of prostrations receiv ing police aid in the streets rau into the scores. The thermometer registered 98.3 degrees at 3 o'clock, approaching within 2-10 of a degree of the .Tunc record made yesterday. The suffering was greater than yesterday, owing to the greater humidity. High temperature was recorded early in the morning, and the prostrations began almost immediately. At 7 o'clock it was 70 degrees. By 8 o'clock it was Si) degrees by the' weather bureau thermometer. On the streets it was several degrees higher. By that hour prostrations kept patrol wagons and ambulances from nearly every police station and hospital in the city bus carrving the stricken off the 'streets and to hospitals and homes. A change of wind and thunder showers, with cooler weather tomorrow, is predicted. i By Associated Press, KANSAS CITY, June iO.Rain fell in several sections of Missouri and Kansas today, and tonight tho greater part of the southwest is cloudy, with prospects of more relief for the heat sufferers. In Kansas there was, half an inch of rain at Florence and Marion, and a quarter of an inch at Stafford, west to Dodge City nnd north to Ellsworth. Eldorado got a light shower. After the mercury had reached 06 degrees, setting set-ting a June mark for ten years past., rain began to fall at Joplin at 6 o'clock tonight. In an hour the temperature had fallen to 71 degrees. Heat records for this year were brokon at Sedalia, Mo., and Muskogeo, Okla., where the temperatures were 102 and 101, respectively. respec-tively. The high mark at Oklahoma City today to-day was 99, and at Topeka, 01. Three persons were prostrated bv heat here today. The maximum temperature tem-perature was 01. By Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., June 10. There was one death from heat prostration here today, the victim being Miss Pearl I Hooper, aged 2P. The maximum temperature tem-perature was 108. By Associated Prcsf. CLEVELAND, June 10. Cleveland suffered today with unusually high temperature, tem-perature, the maximum reached being 01 this evening. During the day the government thermometer ther-mometer in the public square registered 100 degrees. Many cases of heat prostration were rciwrW |