Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-21 | Page 3 | Mercury Drops as Heat Claims 38 More Lives

MERCURY DROPS AS HEAT CLAIMS 38 MORE LIVES Br my Associated Press reA i temperatures tures subsided today throughout the upper sippi basin as the nation credited 38 more deaths to extreme summer r heat Showers swept mercifully across the northern brow of the land from rom the to the Great Lakes and aid on into the north Atlantic states but southern areas still gasped in anticIpation anticipation antici pation of or relief relic promised by Friday Minneapolis 1 produced an official record for Wednesday with degrees degrees degrees de de- de- de grees but last night its citizens slept at 76 78 degrees The Dakotas and Nebraska also cooled off considerably while showers show show- ers and breezes brought much needed relief to Texas Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma seat of the worst of 01 the current wave The drop averaged 10 degrees degre s but El EI Paso still suffered from degree heat Twenty-eight Twenty heat deaths were distributed dis dis- widely St St. Louis reporting sue six six Minnesota and Illinois four each and Pittsburgh three Ten others died of drowning or electrocution during thunderstorms The be weather man unqualifiedly promised temperatures not so warm toda today to most of Wisconsin Iowa I Minnesota the Dakotas Nebraska and Kansas while s showers were predicted for lor the lower lake lak region St S1 Louis thermometers read 99 9 Milwaukee Louisville and Chicago 97 New York and Washington were were not too warm at 87 while Pit Pittsburgh b and Detroit suffered at 92 New ew England weather was merely seasonal Similar Similar Sim Sim- ilar liar reports came from the Pacific coast wast and the western m mountain re re- re gion I