CHRISTMAS CASUALTIES

Evening Star, Issue 20059, 27 December 1928, Page 14

CHRISTMAS CASUALTIES

SYDNEY'S TOLL A MARRICKVILLE TRAGEDY. Pres* Association—By lalcgraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, December 2d. Tlir eo dead and twenty-one injured is the roll of Christmas Day casualties in Sydney and suburbs. Two of tho deaths are tho result of motor accidents, the third being that of a settler, who was run down by a train. One of tho injured men had his right eye torn out when a car crashed into a tram. Several others are in a critical condition. Tragedy brought a sad Christmas to the Wright family, of Marrickvillc. Leo, aged 11, received a cricket ball from his father as a Christmas present. A few hours .later, while lie was playing with other boys, the ball was hit on to tho roof of a factory, and while endeavouring to recover it Wright crashed through a. glass skylight to the concrete floor, 30ft below. The ambulance officers smashed in the door and fount! Wright dead. EFFECTS OF POISON LIQUOR. SIX DEATHS. Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. NEW YORK, December 25. As a result of tho Christmas (celebrations six persons died of poison liquor, and several cases are reported to bo critical. Fifty-eight drinkers were taken to hospitals, a number of whom are suffering from delirium tremens.' Several women arc among those poisoned.—Australian Press Association. ACCIDENTS IN AMERICA. SEVEN DEATHS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, December 24, Seven children were killed as the result of accidents arising from tho custom in the southern States of celebrating Christmas with fireworks. Four lost their lives in Kentucky when a fire cracker tossed in fun landed in a can of blasting powder. There was an explosion and fire, in which the mother of two of tho children was badly burned. Three children at Carterville (Georgia), who were earning Christmas money as temporary clerks in a fireworks store, were burned to deatli when a Roman candle lit by a customer caused a fire and an explosion. A fourth person (a young woman of 18) was badly burned. Her injuries will probably prove* fatal.—Australian Press Association.