XMAS TRAGEDIES
SEVEN Cl I i I/DREN KILLKD
(United Press Association —By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright)
NEW YORK. Dec. 24
Seven children were killed as the result of accidents arising from the custom in the southern States ol celebrating ’Xmas with fireworks. Four youngsters 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 youngsters, was badly burned. Three children at Carterville. Georgia. earning Christinas money as temporary clerks in a fireworks sioic, were burned to death when a Roman cup die lit bv a customer caused a fire ami explosion. A fourth person, a young woman of eisrliteen, was hadl.v burned and her injuries will probably prove fatal.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1928, Page 5
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