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Show MM IRE DEATHS CAUSED BY THE HEAT Twenty-five Persons Succumb Suc-cumb in Chicago, Bringing the Total to 83. By International News Service NEW YORK. July 1. New York awcl-tored awcl-tored today before a heal wave which drove the temperature and humidity tip to a. record figure for the seu.von. At 1 p. m. the temperature was 01 and the humidity registered 153. One man dropped dead on the street and scores wore prostrated pros-trated under the broiling sun, while thousands of persons neglected business to rush to -the beaches In the hope of relief. re-lief. CHICAGO. July 1. The heat wave w.-is broken throughout the middle went today. to-day. General rains fell throughout Oklahoma. Ok-lahoma. Missouri. Kansas and Nebraska. Scattorlmr showers fell In Illinois. Temperatures Tem-peratures were much lower In the entire Mississippi valley. The. relief camo too lato lo save many heat victims, however. In Chicago there were twenty-five adult deaths and forty-two forty-two proslrnllons. The loll of tho four days' heat wave has been eighty-throe adults dead and over 500 prostrations. During tho same period eighty-live babies ba-bies have died and hundreds have been made III. In the stockyards hundreds of animals have died of the heat. The losses arc expected to roach $250,000. Tho highest temperature of the day was SO degrees. COLUMBUS, 0., July 1. Two deaths and four prostrations, duo to the Intense heat, were recorded here today. The gos'ernmonl thermometer registered 97 dogrecs while street thermometers registered regis-tered 102 degrees. Thunder showers brought slight relief tonight. SOUTH BEND, Ind., July L Four persons per-sons died from the effects of the heat and another was overcome here today. Five died yesterday, the result of pros-trutlons. pros-trutlons. A thunderstorm late this afternoon aft-ernoon caused a drop In temperature from 100 to S6 degrees. CINCINNATI. July 1. Three deaths and twenty prostrations from the heat were reported today. The number of prostrations, six of which aro serious, broke the record for the heated term. The high temperature for the day was 06 at the government bureau and 103 at the streot level. Relief came at 4 o'clock when a northeast wind brought thunder showers and the mercury rapidly reeoded Tho showers continued throughout the night, attendant lightning causing slight damage. BOSTON. Mass.. July 1. One man and one woman died and more than half a hundred persons collapsed In Greater Boston today and tonight, to-night, victims of extreme heat It was tho hottest day of tho year. The maximum maxi-mum temperaturo was 9C, but thermometers thermom-eters In many places indicated over 100 degrees. The humidity was above normal. nor-mal. LOUISVILLE, Ky July 1. Four deaths resulted from tho heat here todav, to-dav, although a drop in temperature and a breeze modified suffering. Two women wom-en were prostrated and died later, and two boys were drowned while in bathing, seeking" relief from tho heat. PITTSBURG. Pa.. July 1. Six dead from heat, three drowned while seeking relief in tho rivers, and more thnn a score of prostrations marked the heal wave here today. Late this afternoon a t en-Vic electrical storm occurred. At least four persons were killed by Hghl-nlng Hghl-nlng and a number stunned. PI1ILAD12LPH1A. July I. Three deaths and numerous prostrations weru caused by the excessive heat today. The highest high-est temperature was 91 at 3:15 this afternoon, af-ternoon, Tho humidity ranged from S4 per cent at S a. m. to 75 at 8 p. in. |