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Show SWEEPING EAST FEARFUL HUMIDITY BRINGS TOTAL TO-TAL DEATHS FOR TWO DAY8 TO THIRTY PERSONS Stifling Canopy of Clouds Cauaes Prostration In Hundred! of Cases New York Relentless, choking heat continued Its torture of the eastern itates, bringing death to more than twenty persons and making a toll of more than thirty for the three-day liege. Piercing a heavy, stifling canopy can-opy of clouds and humidity, the vicious vic-ious solar intensity prostrated hundreds, hun-dreds, taaing hospital facilities In many cities. Although promised thunderstorms, which were expected to cool the bunting bunt-ing area, proved fickle, the weather bureau predicted electrical storms, which would be more faithful, and rain began falling In New York in the evening hringing a slight decrease in temperature. The storms that swept northern New York and New England caused three deaths and great damage, but brought lower temperatures only In the Lake Ontario region. Despite the promise of rain and cooler temperature. thousands of New Yorkers flocked to the beaches again preparing to sleep on the sands. It was estimated that more than 150,-OuO 150,-OuO persons spent the night on the sands of Coney Island. |