HEAT CAUSES 14 DEATHS 124 Degrees At White Cliffs SYDNEY. Thursday. 12 Jan 1939. 124 deg F = 45.5 Celsius
HEAT CAUSES 14 DEATHS (1939, January 12). News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 – 1954), p. 7. Retrieved February 26, 2024, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/132166258?searchTerm=heat%20causes%2014%20deaths#
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FOURTEEN deaths and many collapses were caused by the heat wave yesterday and today.
Deaths were:-
John Clines, 80, of Cobar; William Holding, a pioneer resident of Wentworth; Peter Griffiths. 68. of Chullora; William Williams 76, of Wilcannia; Rowley Moulds. 50, dairy hand of Windsor; Mrs Dinah Mendes, 80 of Wagga; J Felthouse. pensioner, of Billabong, nee Urana; James Williamson, 21, of Dural (killed in a fall when he collapsed while working). R. Reid from Ravensfield Station. near Ivanhoe; a man named Goodman, or Darnick Siding near Ivanhoe: Mrs Donald McDonald, of Hillston; Henry George Hewitt, of Hunthawang Station near Hillston; Michael Hayes of Hillston; and Francis Pitts. Mycumbene Station Bolligal.
Inland towns are still roasting and looking hopefully for a break in the heat wave, which may come at the weekend.
Sydney today became hotter as the humidity eased off under the pressure of a southerly which sprang up last night.
Yesterday’s highest temperature in the State was 124 deg at White Cliffs, only one degree below the State’s all- time record held by Bourke.
A thermometer in one Bourke hotel was registering 122 deg at 10 a.m today. Ivanhoe’s night temperature remained at 110 deg. until early this morning.
Ivanhoe’s temperature early today was 108 deg.- the thirtieth successive day over the century.
About 40 of the New South Wales Weather Bureau’s 95 inland reporting stations have in the past three days broken their all-time temperature records.