Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1897 — TERRIFIC HEAT IN THE SOUTH, [ARTICLE]

TERRIFIC HEAT IN THE SOUTH,

The Temperature Over 100 in Many Places, Causing Great Suffering. The South is sweltering in intense heat and there is much suffering on account of it. In Kentucky the thermometers register 90 degrees and upward. In Louisville there have been several prostrations, some of them serious. It was 100 degrees Wednesday morning, but a thunderstorm brought the mercury down to 86 at sundown. Reports from [ioints in the lower Mississippi valley show a continuance of the extreme heat, with one or two exceptions. Memphis broke the record for the year Wednesday with a maximum temperature of 100. In Arkansas the heat is terrible and there is no prospect of relief. Prescott, Texarkana and Warren each report u maximum temperature of 106. The heat wave now prevailing around Vicksburg is the hottest of the season. The temperature ranges in the neighborhood of 100. In St. Louis Thursday the temperature was slightly below the 90 mark. In southern Illinois the thermometer has registered 102 in the shade, and harvesting is greatly retarded.