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blast in 25 years, more than 200 deaths blamed on high temperatures through the First part of July, thermometers across Texas frequently reading higher than anybody’s ever seen them.
Midwesterners hailing back to the days before widespread air conditioning recollect the great heat waves of the ’30s.
“Dost Bowl” Weather
In July 1936 two weeks of torried temperatures, some as high as 120 degrees, smothered the Great Plains from the Rockies to the Appalachians. In Michigan 659 persons died, nearly 300 in Detroit alone. Total deaths from heat that year, according to one estimate, were 5,000.
But some say the worst heat wave of all time was in the summer of 1934 when ‘‘Dust Bowl” was a new headline definition of disaster
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