Show MINETY SOLDIERS FALL FROM HEAT Old Sols Sol's Rays Play Havoc With Regiment at Chicago HIGHEST RECORD IN YEARS Mercury Reaches 96 Numerous Numer Numer- oils ous Fatalities and Over Prostrations Chicago Ju July Iy 1 11 i. Terrific heat hea t such as has not been known in Chicago Chi cago since Jul July 21 1901 hottest day ever eYer known In this city was re- re toda today y for Cor numerous fatalIties fatal fatal- s Including one murder and several suicides 1 nn I i 1 nu LIC II I ero esil- esil muted maled tonight ut at hospitals hospitals' and police stations station at more moro than OO 00 This h I Included about t nl ninety net so soldiers III leis lei's members of the tue Seventh SC regiment I. I N. N G G. who in Jim defiance of old Sol Sols roasting 1 rays ray attempted the time last leg of oC u a three tin days practice hike from Logan Loban Square to Grant Park where a drill was to be given All Ali along the line hue of oC march tho time companies companies com coin panics were 10 losing men who were overcome overcome over over- come corne and when Michigan avenue was I reached over o two score core of them collapsed col col- lapsed at the same caine moment Utterly exhausted the thc men sat on the curbstones In front of the time fashionable fash fash- hotels In a moment the they began be be- be- be ball gan to topple over o to the sl sidewalk two three even C tour and i d five the at a at t time ime I mn e. e Spectacular attempts at first aid were then lien made mude Buckets of or Ice water were ivere brought ht from the time Auditorium Annex An n nex flex and da dashed hed upon ulon the faces Caces of ot the prostrated soldiers In Iii some cases the sousing brought the time sufferers to Are rc me Cli Called Physicians soon soomi reached reache the thc scene scone an and the time well known me medical remedies les were applied Confronted with the prospect of more than thamm a decimation among the lie themen men Uen of or his 1115 comman command Colonel Daniel decided to call off ore the time drill He lie reported that not Jess Jeso than thail 87 of his boys bos had Ilc been n temporarily pros 10 fluted It H was Vat one of or the lie hottest days a s ever experienced ell In iii Chicago It lacked but eight degrees decree of or being the time hottest day ay ayIn In the tIme history of oC the tile local government Io bureau which covers co 37 y years ars When the mercury reached 95 9 Ie degre dc- dc e- e gre bl ij J t ln- ln rat r at tu t. t 0 u records C for I seven years cars and arid all other records s except that of or seven years had been broken Shortly after 3 o'clock it 96 O Oh Omi 1 tile the record d day yuly July 21 21 1 01 the time mercury reached degrees government guy gov reading The Time humidity today was very low reducing the time casualties Within haIran half haIr an arm hour tho thu temperature lo rose e a full lJ degree in iii the afternoon and amid shortly after ater i o'clock the mercury was a fraction above tho the 06 mark mall mallOn On the tho streets nn and amid in iii the time stores the thermometers thermometers ther tImer topped tOPIe the time hundred mar mark of often orten ten Tenements Suffer Stiffer III In the time tenement districts the time children chili chil dren dlen suffered most Much illness was ca caused A strong wind from tho west est allayed al allayed al- al the effects of or the heat heal There was much suffering in imi the downtown district There Is no fro prospect of or rain alit and only the prophesied change of or the thc wind was standing between tho tue cil city and a Sunday of terrific heat tuo at nt Aurora mola Aurora Ill Ju July 11 Three Three deaths a crazed woman and three prostrations prostrations ions followed In tIme the wake of today's heat The rhe thermometer ter reached degrees In iii the time streets |