BIG DEATH ROLL

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1932, Page 6

BIG DEATH ROLL

NEW YORK TRAGEDIES. DEATHS IN UNITED STATES. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, January 1. Preliminary reports indicate that over sixty persons were killed during the New Year celebrations in the United -States, and hundreds were injured, added to whom wore eleven suicides. Automobiles were the chief cause of both accidents and deaths, with alcoholism a close second. Among other causes were stray bulfots from arms fired by celebrants, and fights. New York City reported only one alcoholic death, and only twenty cases of alcoholism, against seventy-five last

year. . . Two were killed and four injured by a bomb explosion at the Post Office at Easton (Pennsylvania). The building was wrecked. STX CHILDREN GASSED. NEW YORK, January 2. Six children are dead at Marysville, in Michigan, because Phylris MacClure aged, four, -tried to cook a New Year dinner on her mother’s gas stove. The mother found the children dead when she returned home from work. Apparently Phyllis turned on the gas and then went to -play with dolls in a corner, -being overcome by the gas fumes. The other children met the same fate as they entered the room, one by one. EIGHT MOTORISTS DROWNED. NEW YORK, January 2. Other holiday tragedies included eight drowned when a motor skidded and plunged into the Calumet River at Cooper,sville, in Michigan. Only one escaped, two families weie almost wiped out. A motor filled with New York celebrants, was speeding at seventy miles an hour, when it crashed head on into a street’car at Los Angeles. Four persons were killed instantly. PLANE’S CRASH. An American. Airways Company Plane crashed in a fog at Springfield Five were killed. SIX POLICE KILLED. GUN DUEL- IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, January 3.

At Springfield, Missouri, two sheriffs and four detectives were killed in an attempt to remove a murder suspect from a farm house. The suspect opened fire on the officers with a machine gun, wounding two others. (Riot squads and gas squads of troops were then ordered out ito take the accused, who has been sought for two years.