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Show THREE KILLED BY HEAT AND STORM i KEW YORK. July 14. Nature j f i 1 1 11 o. I and spewed and growled and barked over 'be metropolitan area Thursday, causing several deaths, and! prostrations unite a few injuries and any numbei Of scares. The heal was fatal to one man In the city and lightning killed two oth-i oth-i - ;,i CrestWOOd. Another, pros-trated, pros-trated, tell off a bargo and was drowned. Until mldaf ternoon it was hot and humid. The mercury touched 8S at the weather bureau office in tho Whitehall skyscraper at 1 o'clock and climbed even higher In thermometers . loser to the stuffy street level. Th? siurm was brewing up the Hudson then. Meanwhile, the city was trying to alleviate sufferings due to the heat. I he portable street showers, of which there are 900. were turned on ln various va-rious streets, while boys and girls im running to frolic ln the spray. |