Show HT fatalities HOTTEST JULY 22 ON RECORD IN MANY SECTIONS OF THE EAST BUSINESS STOPS exact list of dead impossible to compile showers are predicted temperature was at many points now new york the tha hottest july 22 ever recorded in most sections of the ho cast passed with long promised cooling showers still only a hope As the trend of summers most intense hent wave drew draw to a close it lott loft in its wake a record of offices nn an plants closes of men mail and women prostrate il I at their work and on the streets of among crowds that surged to seaside and lako lake front of both animals anti and humans demented by the scorching weather although wittering suffering was vas intense wednesday temperatures were generally several points higher thursday records of were unusual and scattered before but on thursday such tem tempora pura ures tures became the rule rather than tho the exception from all the reports of prostrations prost rations suicides deaths of persons persona already ill III all to some extent attributed to the weather it was impossible to compile any accurate list of deaths deatha for which tile the heat could be hold held directly and solely responsible in various places in now york now new england and pennsylvania stores and industrial plants closed their doors so that the employees might seek what relief was possible now york city experienced its hottest july 22 since 0 the weather bureau has been in operation after a rushing start with a lo 10 degree rise in three hours in the morning the mercury reached 97 7 degrees a nt t 3 |