Show ONE EIGHTY DEAD HEAT WAVES WAVE'S TOlL IN CENTRAL WEST Chicago Hospitals HospitaIs Filled With V Persons Stricken in Streets V T Temperature There here 1 1 02 CHICAGO June 30 Reports received d GO sS v i up mill to late lalo tonight showed that at least el one eighty persons died to today n as at a 1 result of or the tho heat wave in the central west The rile heat wave which has continued for six days dar extended from D Denver n to Pittsburgh and as far I north as I raJ Lake ako o Superior From 96 d degrees de degrees de- de grees at Pittsburgh the temperature through h the time whole middle west ranged welt well Into luto the tho nineties Marquette usually usa usa- ally cool coot on oil the tile shor shores of or Lake Super Super- br recorded 02 I de degrees degrees' roeS roeS' With Hh degrees de do- grees Chicago o was tho the hottest place In iii tho ito United Stalls Stati-s today except for TUC Tucson Ariz Arix time the temperature was the timo Maine sarno intense suffering was reported In all nil tho the J largo rs- rs cities clUes enveloped in the tho heat wave wa Fatalities due to the tho heat hat were ero reported linn I at L und and O v ciosse Who WIs I Joliet Joilet Peoria St. St Louis Grand Cleveland Cle and Chicago o. o From different nt points In Wisconsin 1 thirteen deaths were were- reported f electrical storms high winds and intense heat the time features teat fea tea t three tures Jr s of or tho the weather near Duluth Heat Heal prostrations were beyond boond count Throughout this thIs' area arell hope of only slight ICU I Is offered b by thu tho weather bureau officials l for COl Tuesday Fort Mix lor-Mix six V Die It In Forty six persons are arc known to have died lied hero here today as a result of or the Intense heat This number Included only the cases cats b by the coroner and the time police and It Is expected willbe will willbe be inci increased cased cI b by reports ts of or private physicians Of those deaths thirty thirty- i nine were the tho direct rt result of or heat five p persons committed suicide directly traceable to 10 lilt tho heat two deaths death's wore of children seeking relief relict This was the tile hottest June day recorded In this city since the tile establishment establish ineRt ment of yC v the tho government records In 1672 Ninety nine degrees were registered registered regis regis- tercel b by the tho government thermometer a above o tile time the bureau u. u Tho The government govern govern- tnt ment thermometer on the tue street level lovel showed a temperature of or 10 degrees The Tho luring during tho tIlO night and lla day was not nut tempered by ji n breeze and aTil oven even th tile the lake 0 which usually gives I es relief for a a. few rew hundred hUI yards ards offered no rio decrease in temperature Up Umu to tho Oio lat huH t twenty four went hours hour there were ro moro more than titan fort olty known dead More than cases of heat I prostration r reported tu to the time toll toda today I Hospital I ambulance Ia handled n aa its many lucre moie and all time the hospitals in th tile the city elty nr are arc filled with those stricken In tho time streets Poliet o were Wel detailed to l lance lanco dut duty and anti wagons a as 85 well elJ Col Continued on ou r P Page igo bO 2 Column 1 EIGHTY DEAD HEAT W NAVES A VS V'S TOLL IN CENTRAL WEST Continued from Page Pase 1 1 as tho the regular res ambulances wore ore called Into use uso to cary heat victims to their homes or to hospitals Most of the victims are aged p ople Slight relief arrived tonight when the effect of along the tho upper lako Jako region Ion was felt feJt here At I S 8 o'clock the temperature fell feU from 95 5 I degrees to 85 in a more moro than one ono hour A special fore forecast issued to tonight tonight to- to I night declared distinctly that tho the end of f the tho heat wave wa was not In sight A new month record for heat was Wt made nade during the pres present nt June There vera eight days das on which the thermometer ther thee registered 9 91 degrees or ora a above boye i |