Ice and electric fans were luxuries, air conditioning unknown. Pedestrians fainted from the stifling heat. At night, the streets were filled with exhausted mothers walking up and down, trying to comfort their crying babies. They feared leaving them in their beds, lest they fail to wake up. One police officer described the night during the 1911 heat wave as a ‘giant wail.
This is before man was causing ‘global warming’ or ‘climate change’ by releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.
Source: The 1911 Heat Wave Was So Deadly It Drove People Insane
