Show ALL HEAT RECORDS BROKEN IN SOUTHWEST kansas city all records on the thirty second day of torture A veritable hot blast literally scorched the southwest monday break ing all heat records in the history of the local weather bureau Temperate roi recorded were kansas ty lawrence leavenworth topeka at 3 30 clock the weather bureau thermometer at the h gl est point in kansas city showed degrees with street tl ermo meters in the business d reach ng as high as ls the thermometer at 8 a m registered 90 and at noon and at 3 p hardly a breath of air stirred the suffering was intense especially among poor pei sons compelled to work out doors and in the poor districts in the bottoms seven deaths fro n prostrations were reported during the day and over thirty people were overcome by the heat this makes a total dead for the two days of sixteen most of the victims were elderly people this was the tl airty second day in success on on which tl e temperature has averaged above 90 degrees and the fifteen thin that t ne that the ther in ometer has gone over |