Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1917 — Concordia, Kansas, Hit Top With 106—No Relief Sighted. [ARTICLE]

Concordia, Kansas, Hit Top With 106—No Relief Sighted.

Washington, July 30.—The sumYner’s most extensive heat wave overspread almost the entire country east of the Rockies today, causing severe suffering in the cities, resulting in scores of heat prostrations and a few deafhs. Little relief is promised before late in the week, except for local areas. No general rains to cool the super-heated atmosphere were in sight on the weather map tonight. Official. reports to the weather buraeu today showed .106 degrees at Concordia, Kansas, the hottest spot on the map; 104 at Omaha, 100 at Albany, N. Y.; 38 at Chicago and Boston, 96 in Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore, and temperatures almost as high in many other cities. Only in the northwest, the northern lake regions and Maine did the heat show any signs of moderating.