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Show ! A HOT DAY I IN CHICAGO j I Heat So Great as to I Start an Automatic Sprinkler Chicago, June 10. Perhaps tho most 1 curious freak of the rccord-hrealung H, v performance of the mercury yestcr- I day occurred In a big down-town de-' de-' partmont store Just 'before closing i time. The automatic sprinkler system In the store suddenly opened its flood gates and began to work as energetically energeti-cally as If the store had been on fire. I For twenty minutes the devlco sprinkled away, while watchmen raced 4 I about looking for a stopcock. Tho ,j sprinkler was gauged" to go into action t $ at 143 degrees or higher, wtiile tho 1 temperature on tho street level reach-i reach-i ed a maximum of only 101 degrees. i People Dying. 'I Chicago, June 10. What has come to bo almost a daily occurrence the establishment of a now hot weather record for that part of the year pre- $ vious to July- was expected today t when, at 10:30 a. m the government thermometer indicated 93 degrees. By that hour, one death and four v serious prostrations had been reported V to the police, work In many down-h down-h town offices had been abandoned for 1 the day and street gangs of workmon had boen laid off in view of the early morning prediction of Forecaster Cox jf that a new record of even 100 de- ggrees might be expected. Temperatures given as official by tho Chicago bureau are misleading", since they are taken from the top of 'J the federal building, where whatever effect Lake Michigan has on cooling ! the air may be felt, Down at the j 1 street levol. other official thermome-I thermome-I ters alwajs register from 3 to 5 dc- ;r grecs higher than on the roof, it By noon the temperature had gone t up to 95, and the number of cases I of more acute suffering had grown ft until the police list showed two dead . I and nine in a critical condition from j ; prostrations. ' 'I Both tho dead were -women, one of i them being "Mrs. Mary A. Casey, a Flstor of General Robert W. Healy, $ U S. A., now stationed at Chntta- I nooga, Tenn., and James T. Healy of Chicago, who was sub-treasurer under Kg. Cjeveland's first administration. |