The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-02-09
THE DEATH ROLLOF 1898.
oes or LIFE FROM DISASTER AND
CRIME DURING THE YEAR.

., Railroad Accidents $500 Persons Were
KtIled-592O Committed Suicide
disappointed Love. 196-Domestie In
felicity. I9T-LynchinEs. 127.
According TO the statistics compiled
nv the Chicago Tribune the loss of
i;fa from various disasters in this
.anntry between January l and the
morning of December 81. 1898, was
7345.
Casualties were as follows: Fires,
1870: drownings, BIO; explosions,
500; mines, $50; falling buildings, etc.,
5g9; cyclones and storms, 500; light
ming, 255.
The loss of life by railroad acct
dents of various kinds was $500 in
1898, as compared with 2764 in 1897.
The number of seriously injured was
9616, as compared with 242S in 1897.
The total number of persons who
have committed suicide in the
limited States during 1898, as re-
ported by mail and telegraph to the
Tribune, is 1920, as compared with
5000 in 1897. OF the number 1880
were males and 1884 females.
Among professional men physicians
lead the list, Al having taken their
own lives, as compared with Al in
1897. During the year also Is per-
sons engaged IN the banking business,
s clergymen, journalists, attorneys,
o actors and 2 artists have committed
suicide. The causes of suicide were
as follows: Dependency, 1923; un-
known. 1900; insanity, 1873; liquor,
1853; ill-health, 2SS; domestic infelic-
ity, 1877; disappointed love, 1876; bust
ness losses. 10.
In the cases of suicide 1926 persons
took poison, 2037 shot themselves, 1877
hanged themselves, ASP cut their
Threats, 354 drowned themselves,
IS Jumped from windows or house.
tops, 80 threw themselves in front Of
railroad trains, 26 burned themselves
to death, 20 stabbed themselves,
starved themselves and 3 blew them.
selves up with dynamite.
The total number of murders com.
mitted in 1898 shows a gratifying de.
crease-a phenomenon often witnessed
in war year-being 1910, as com
pared with $500 in 1897, 1862 il
1895, 10000 in 1895. The causes o
these murders may be roughly classi
fed as follows:
Quarrels, 1867; unknown, 2678
jealousy, 205; liquor, 207; by highway
men, 222; infanticide, 24S; resisting
arrest, 147; highwaymen killed.: so
insanity, SO; self-defense, SO; strikes
%; outrages, 5; riots, 25.
The losses by fire in the United
States in 1898 aggregate $133, 139, 467
as compared with 1926, DOL, 737 il
1897, Sill, $3.50, OCT in 1896 and $131,
57S,206 IN 1895. Those where tn
loss in each case was 500, 900 and up
ward amount to $64, 915, 400, and tn
losses by smaller fires to sos, 224, 067
The criminal work of mob murderer
throughout the country has decreased
during 1898, as compared with 1897
being smaller than in any year sine
1885, except 1890, when the humble
was the same. Judge Lynch has exc
cuteu IL persons during tne year, IL
males and females.
The Iynchings in the various State
and Territories were as follows:
Arkansas, IT; South Carolina, l.
Georgia, II; Missouri, 6: Kentucky,
Louisiana, 6; Texas, 3; Maryland,
Oklahoma, l; Washington, l; Wyon
ing, 3; Illinois, 1; Indiana, l Missis
sippi, Is; Indian Territory, 3; Ne
Mexico, l /; Alabama, II; North Carr
lima, 4; Tennessee, 6; Virginia,
West Virginia, /; Florida, l; Alask
l; Kansaa, 1; Montana, /.
Of the lynchings 11S occurred
the South and 8 in the North. OF Il
total number, 102 were colored,
whites and Indians.