The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-10
DEATH ROLL
OF LAST YEAR.
More Than $500 Persons Killed
in Railroad Accidents.
$500 TOOK THEIR OWN LIVES.
H..n. a.H.
Doctors Head Professional List, Bankers
and CIergymen Follow.
ONLY TWO ACTORS AND TWO ARTISTS
SeH'Destucilon Due 10 Disappointment In Love In
1856 Cases, and 10 Domestic Inislcit In
1873, Persons lynched l27.

According TO the statistics compiled
from various disasters in this country
between January 1 ana the morning of
December 81, 1895. was 13ij.
Casualties were as follows: Fires,
1910; drownings $40; explosions, 629;
mires, $50; falling buildings. etc, 199
cyclones and storms, 5O2; lightning, z55.
The loss of life by railroad accidents
OF various kinds was $500 In ls9S, as
compared with 2764 in 1897. The mum
Der of seriously injured was 2ii6, rs
compared with 2a2s in 1891.
The total number of persons who
have committed suicide in the United
States during 1895. as reported by mail
and telegraph to the Tribune. is $500, as
compared with $500 i'm 1897. OF the
number 1856 were males and 1884 fe-
males.
Among professional men physicians
lead the list AZ having taken their own
lives. as compared with Al In 1897. Dur
ing the year also IL persons engaged i'm
the banking business. eight clergymen.
seven Journalists, six attorneys, two ac-
tors and two artists have committed
suicide. The cause of suicide were as
follows: Dependency. 1928 unknown,
1900; insanity, 43s: liquor. l6S; ill-health,
2sS: domestic infelicity, 191; disappoint-
ed love- 1876; business losses. ITO.
In the cases of suicide 2l26 persons
took poison. 2O37 shot themselves, 's'
hanged themselves, 452 cut their
throats. 354 drowned themselves, d
Jumped from windows or housetops, oV
threw themselves ~ front OF ailioad
trains 26 burned themselves TO death.
% stabbed themselves. four starved
themselves and three blew themselves
ap with dynamite.
The total number OF murders com
mitted in 1898 shows a gratifying de-
crease--a phenomenon often witnessed
IN n war year-being 1880, as compared
with $500 in 1897, 1862 in 1890. lo5O) III
1885,. The causes of these murders may
5e roughly classified as follows
Quarrels. 1857; unknown. 26'S; 1eal-
ousy. 205; licuoT, 20I; by highwaymen
900: infanticide 2iS: resisting arrest,
IA; highwaymen killed. 81; insanity
80 self-defence. SO; strikes, %; out
RACES, Z: riots. %.
The losses by fire in the United States
in 1895 aggregate 1888, 1896 az com
pared with 1929 .00l.131 in 1897, Slll 500
OG7 i'm 1896 and $l3l ,51S, 200 I'm 1890. THOSE
WnGrp the loss III tdtIl was HiVNs"'V bi''
inward amount to S64 .Jl5,40O. and the
losses by smaller fires 10 S6S, 22406 The
criminal work of mob murderers
throuchout tho country has decreased
during 1898. as compared with 1877, be-
Ing smaller than in any year since 1885
except 1890. when the number was the
same. Judge Lynch has executed II,
persons during the year, l22 males and
females.
The Iynchings i'm the various states
and territories were as follows:
Arkansas, II: South Carolina II
Georgia. y; Missouri, 6; Kentucky, s.
Louisiana. S: Texas, 3; Maryland ?;
Oklahoma, I: Washington. 1;Wyoming
2: Illinois. 1; Indiana. L. Mississippi, 10
Indian Territory. 3: New Mexico. i
Alabama. 10: North Carolina, 4; Ten
nessee, s. Virginia. 4: West Virginia, !
Florida, L. Alaska, /; Kansas, /; Mon
tana, l.
or the lynchings 11S occurred i'm the
south and Q in the north. OF the tota
number. 102 were negroes. % whites
and . Indians