Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-16 | Page 1 | Fifty Succumb in Heat Waves

I FIFTY SUCCUMB IN HEAT WAVES Summer stoked on today preparIng preparing prepare ing a hot week end for a nation which sweltered yesterday in many sections under high highest st temperatures of the yea year and c counted it 14 three-day three heat wave victims at nearly fifty Brief respites however vever were grant granted d favored sections actions last night Breezes and thunder showers cooled Chicago and the Pittsburgh area But Buthe the he terrific heat which i reached cached a high of ot degrees decrees at Corsicana anc and Longview Tex and scorched other sections with temperatures of or near was abated only temporarily the weather man indicated A breathing period today with warmer weather again Sunday was the best he offered most localities The heat wave engulfed most of the nation except the mount mountain in Pacific and Atlantic seaboard states and inthe in inthe inthe the Cotton Belt brought grave crave fears for the crop It reached its maximum in the southwest where Texas anc and Kan Kansas Kansas' as' as blistered Texarkana Tex Salina and Junction City Kan were only one degree under Tuesdays Tuesday's record record rec see ord at At Altus Okla OkIa it was and Tulsa Okla Okia had an official high of Unofficial degree degree readings were Continued ed on Pare Two o FIFTY SUCCUMB IN HEAT WAVES Continued from Page Pae One numerous in Chicago and several Kentucky points reported the same figures officially It was the hottest day of the year In Chicago with wit 97 Montgomery Ala where the top reading was 99 and Louisville Ky where it was 97 Jacksonville and Tampa Fla FIn and Kansas City also had new season records record Nine deaths were attributed to the heat in Chicago bringing the total for Cor the three day period to 15 Included In eluded was a victim of lightning when the storm broke up a R neighborhood baseball game LI Lightning claimed anoter another another an an- other oter fatality in Pennsylvania where I two heat deaths were reported ear car her lier I St. St Louis Louis' Loui death list In two days I of record heat with a maximum yesterday mounted to seven The burning suns sun's rays were believed to have caused the the explosion of 30 pounds pound of dynamite killing J. J ESar ESar- ESar gent a n contractor who was leaning over the box containing the explosive used for road work Four heat deaths in Wisconsin one In Kansas City four in Minnesota two in Indiana one In North Dakota to together together to- to gether with wih nine of re rele relief re- re lief hief le seekers in Minnesota Indiana and Iowa completed the fatality list lis