Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1913 — HEAT WAVE BROKE ALL JUNE RECORDS [ARTICLE]

HEAT WAVE BROKE ALL JUNE RECORDS

Temperature at Indianapolis Wai 96, Which Was 2 Degrees Lower Than Registered Here. Indianapolis, June 16.—With June heat records for twenty-one years smashed here today Indianapolis •g and Indiana ingeneral experienced much suffering from the sweltering weather. The government kiosk, on the street level Showed KBYs and the thermometer above the street level 96 degrees. _ At Terre Haute a temperature of 99 degrees broke all former June records by one degree, and at Marion - >4OO was the hottest it has been there in three years. Two deaths, John Pierce, 55, at Kokomo, and J. Deapsey, of Logansport, at South Bend, were the only ones reported. Dempsey was awaiting the arrival Of a train to return to his home when overcome. Pierce was painting a roof and was found hanging over the comb dead. Throughout the entire state, however, not more than a dozen prostrations were reported and in Indianapolis not a person was Overcome. Some of the temperatures reported are: Richmond 94; Cambridge City 95; Brazil 96; Michigan City 95; Bedford 101; Worthington 101; Anderson 93.