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Heat Wave and Its Fatalities

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 18, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 28.

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Heat Wave and Its Fatalities

By Editor

While we are having uniformly temperate weather on the Pacific Coast, the East is sweltering under a great blanket of heat which refuses to lift. In some places the thermometer has registered as high as 120. In two days—July 4 and 5—the prostrations in less than a score of cities aggregated nearly 1,000, while the number of deaths ascribed to the torrid temperature were about 200. One recalls the prophecy of the Revelation that the sun shall have power to scorch men with fire. Not a few have gone insane or committed suicide.