Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1916 — INDIANA HEAT RECORDS SHATTERED [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HEAT RECORDS SHATTERED

Entire State Suffers From Great Heat Wave—St. Joseph’s College Reports 169. Never in the history of the state of Indiana has there ever been recorded as high a temperature as there •was Thursday. Suffering from heat Thursday throughout the state was intense and many deaths are reported and scores of prostrations. Practically all lines of business dn the cities were at a standstill, and many firms lot their men work at night instead of during the day. Farm laborers wore forced to abandon the fields. The lake fronts afforded thousands temporary relief. Crops in the middle west are suffering greatly and unless almost immediate relief comes fanners will suffer to the extent of millions of dollars. Very few places in the state of Indiana Thursday reported less .than 100 degrees/, while many reported, above that mark. At Indianapolis the maximum temperature reported for the day was 106.

The cause of this excessive heat is said to be “Bermuda High." Translated from the cryptic language of the weather sharps this means a great Area of high pressure air has been mobilizing on .the great weather drill grounds of the Atlantic off Bermuda for the pest month and now has let go full power of its offensive from the seaboard to the Rtocky Mountains. For weeks it has stood like a solid wall against all currents, trying vainly to move out from the interior of the ocean, and now as it swirls rapidly along, it is gathering heat and moisture from the tropics and sweeping them northward over the continent into the vacuum of so called ‘Tow pressure areas.” Although its greatest intensity has not struck the Pacific ootaat, it is expected to do so within a few days. No relief is paomised from the phenomena which in the east have caused sweltering city dwellers to light fixes in their homes to dry out the humidity. Chief Forecaster FrankemfieM states that the heat .wave has only begun and is certain to continue thmuginout the week. The government .thermometer at St. Joseph's college registered a maximum temperature Thursday of 109 degrees, which was probably the highest temperature recorded in the State for the day. The minimum temperature was given as 71.