Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-26 | Page 6 | Score Killed as Heat Wave Grips Nation

SCORE KillED AS MEAT HEAT WAVE AYE AYEa GRIPS NATION pastern Astern F a- a stern Seaboard R Only Areas to Escape ty J High Temperatures r. r CHICAGO June 26 A 26 A shimmering Heat beat wave wl which ch killed upward of ot a score of or persons and seared growing crops held the country in its lis grip to today today to- to day and little relief was promised soon coon The Th The heat wave centered in the thc mid mid- and was creeping eastward i Extreme heat prevailed also on the west cst coast where there were nu nu- and freakish storms torms Chicago and other cities around the Great Lakes where temperatures yesterday yesterday yes yes- ranged between 95 and were assured some relief by lake breezes which crawled slowly southward southward south south- ward easing the temperatures down gradually as they moved along With the exception of along along- the eastern in parts of the Rocky mountain areas temperatures yesterday esterday were above 90 New heat records for tor June were set in Illinois Illinois Illi Illi- nois and Iowa where the mercury inmany inmany in inmany many cities climbed above Before the lake breezes sent temperatures temperatures tem tem- down an official high mark of 95 was recorded at the University of Chicago The mercury soared to 98 while in some of the western suburbs suburbs suburbs su su- su- su where the lakes lake's s 's effect was lost marks of and higher were reached