THE FOURTH OF JULY.
ANNUAL DEATH-ROLL.
By ■ Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrieht
New York, July 5. I There have been the usual crop of fatalities following tho Fourth qf July celebrations. Hundreds of persons tre in hospitals throughout tho country ns tho result of injuries from exploding crackers and bombs. A balloonist named Moore, in making a parachute descent at the celebrations iu Newark, New Jersey, was killed. He fell 10,000 ft. '■ Suburban cars at Talsa, Oklahoma, laden with 100 picnickers, collided,- and five persons wero. killed and many injured, .'■.■'' A motor-cycle at Salt Lake Oity ran amuck, and the rider was killed. It dashed into the crowd of spectators at the motordrome and injured seven. ',■ Automobile collisions and capsizings were numerous, ,and there were many deaths. FOURTH OF JULY ACCIDENTS. .Tho "Journal of the American Medical I Association." has. kept a record o{ the accidents' in. the. United States duo anI nually to the celebration of Independence Day from 1903 tol9lt. The following are tho figures:— Year. Killed. Injured. Total, 1903 M 3393 3859 ISIM .'. 183 '3986 4169 1905. IS2 -1991 5170 190G .' 158 5308' 546G 1007 « 101 1219 U\3 11108 103 5400 5623 1909 215 5307 5522 1910 131 ,1923 3054 1911 57 1510 1603 Totals 1719 87,166 38,885 The decrease from 460 deaths to 57 In 1911 was due'to more intelligent methods of celebration, the most marked decrease! taking'plaoo in States where the agitation for restrictive measures was strongest,
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1486, 8 July 1912, Page 7
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239THE FOURTH OF JULY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1486, 8 July 1912, Page 7
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