Show CHICAGO WRAPPED IN FURNACE BLAS' BLAS I Heat Prostrates th Citizens of City on the Lake HOTTEST IN SEVEN YEARS Alarming Death of Children Is Noted Among the Tenements Chicago III Ill Aug 4 With the sin sin- single gle ghe exception of Pueblo Coin Colo which has las the tho reputation of a and ml Is shunned by tn all alJ God fearing peo- peo ide lo in iii the summer time Chicago was he the hottest place In the United States today oday Four deaths at least a score of pros pros- and two dog mail Incidents marked the scorching killing day No relief ellef is promised The forecast says there will be no important changes in temperature either tomorrow or Thursday Reports received at the health department de tie- show n it falling oft off In lii the tho infant death rate Out of a a. total of 1 3 1 cleat deaths his only 4 46 R were children under un timi- tIer der 2 years of ago age On Monday SO babies under 1 I year old tiled died between midnight and auth sundown Health Commissioner Evans has no explanation to make of the marked diminution and fears that it may be merely a coincidence of circumstances which will bo be counterbalanced by an increase later In th tho week The Thit maximum temperature today was vas 94 degrees at tt 2 o'clock in lii the afternoon anti and only a high western wind rind which kept down time the humidity prevented the lie temperature from om ris rising ing ng above time the mark Storms Slay Away iray Fugi I lye thunderstorms were reported re- re ported here and there them about the coun country tty try but they stayed outside tho city as OR though it were not of re relief re- re lief hief of succor Time The deficiency in thi the rainfall for the last month Is tremendous dous amid and the tho parched condition of th the earth giving rise to clouds of dust tire has hasa a eat gm-eat deal to do 10 with the suffering during the present heat wave A A. dog ilog sprang at Michael soil on 26 yea years is old as he lie was walking In n Jackson avenue and bit hint him In the calf of or the deg A neighboring physician clan cian dressed the he wound The dog escape es- es cape ii Di- Di DiC C St St. ClaIr Drake of the health department Is working with a a. staff of In Ip an ai effort lo to tho J th eU 11 ill I rn o n ll Tf but been absolutely unable to check the tho appalling death rate I am convinced that the mortality among Infants here from August 1 will excell anything the city has over ever experienced unless there is a remarkable change Breaks k Heat lAll l- l All heat records for years were broken at 30 1 p. p m. m ye yesterday when the mercury registered This was the highest temperature since inco July 21 1901 when degrees was set as time the maximum temperature On July 1 11 1 of this year the tho mercury was up UI to OG 9 but the figure after the decimal point represents the excessive sive temperature Another heat record also went by bythe the he board when the weather bureau figured that in the first seven soven months of lOS there was an all excess of tic in the temperature On an average the lays days of oh 1908 ha have each been two degrees hotter than normal |