Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1909 — WEST SWELTERS; COLD IN THE EAST [ARTICLE]

WEST SWELTERS; COLD IN THE EAST

Crops Withered by Hot Blasts In Missouri and Kansas. MANHATTAN ISLE DBENCHED Thermometer In Oklahoma Climb* to the 110 Notch While In New York the Natives Enjoy the Coolest Oay of Their Bummer—Three Deaths Are Caused by the Torridity—Nebraska, Too, Reports Weather Above the 100 ‘ Mark. Kansas City, Aug. 17. —Unusually Intense heat, officially recorded by the government weather bureau as high as 110 degrees, caused at least three deaths, numerous prostrations and much damage to crops In Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. Throughout the southwest the day was the most trying since the devastating drouth of 1901. As the withering winds swept across the plains much vegetation fell. The day was the hottest Topeka has had for eight years, 102 degrees being officially recorded. Two prostrations resulted there. The past eight days in Kansas, each with a maximum temperature above 90 degrees and a mimimum which has not been below 70, is the hottest period experienced since 1901. In Oklahoma City the government thermometer registered 103, while the thermometers in the business district reached 112. It was the hottest day recorded there in fifteen years. Dispatches state Oklahoma crops have been materially damaged. At Muskogee, the government thermometer registered 110. This was the highest recorded In the three states. A hot wind blew all day at McAlester with the temperature at 108. Vegetation there is being killed. * COLD ON MANHATTAN ISLE Rainfall For Last Twenty-Four Hours Breaks All Records. New York, Aug. 17.—More rain by millions of tons fell on Manhattan island during the past twenty-four hohrs than in any August day yet recorded by the weather bureau. The official precipitation was 4.15 inches, almost two inches more than for all the days of August thus far. And it was colder than any day this summer. . The temperature sank to 56, than which' only two colder August days—sl degree in 1885 and 55 two years ago—are known. The heaviest August rainfall previously was 3.93 inches in 1888.

HEAT KILLS IN ST. LOUIS Thirty-Seven Deaths In Four Days Due to the High Temperature. St. Louis, Aug. 17.—Among the persons prostrated by heat was William H. Carey, editor of the Sentinel, Silver City, N. M. His condition is serious. The day’s deaths, taken with those revealed by burial permits and not previously reported, brings the total dead here for four days to thirty-seven. The street department of the city reported that 492 domestic animals have succumbed to the weather. Thermometer at 103 In Nebraska. Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 17.—A1l lopal hot weather records for -this year were broken when the thermometer reached the 103 mark.