The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-07-30
ONE HUNDRED A MINUTE.
Approximately That Number Of Hu.
man Lives Go Out the
World Over.

In catastrophe which suddenly blots
Nogt nearly thousand lives the civilized
world finds cause for horror and sympa.
sthy alike. On the community in which
such a disaster occurs its first effect is
dazing, and II is not strange that follow
ng the destruction OF the General Slo-
Seum expressions Of doubt as 20 the wis
dom OF God and his direction Of human
afalrs should be heard alike from the
rreligious and the unthinking II is
NDnly in the calmer time Of afterthought
hat. thanks 10 the figures OF the statis-
tcian, such an accident, terrible In It's
etail and shocking in its nature, sinks
10 insignincance in the death list OF
be day. not merely In the world or the
lation, but even In the state and the
NIFTY, says the New York Tribune.
The estimated annual death rate for
he world OF $1,000 600 daily total OF
i2s 900. sends into obscurity the thou
sand or fewer who we're slain on the
General Slocum. In the omDiscicnce OF
God, whether one assume the position Of
. the doubter or the cynic. the death roll
y Of a single accident. even though II be
as great as that Of the General slocun.
can be only a minor detail even more in
'slgnifcant. In view OF the fact that all
life Is doomed to perish In the case Of
lihis recent horror nearly a thousand
lives. larger number than IN any sim
lar accident IN recent years, were lost.
For few hours the wharves and shores
along the river were transformed into 4
|morgue. In a single day there we're more
than 200 funerals OF victims while the
city was plunged into mourning and the
civilized world gave expression TO It's
sympathy and sorrow
Yet. great as was the tragedy at the
moment, its part even in the death lisi
Of the year Is only slight In the nor
NAL existence OF this metropolis as many
persons die every 10S hours from reasons
INCIDENT to city life as perlshed In the
holocaust near North Brother island.
That this number should be equally sig-
nifcant to the Divine Power must be
granted, and. as death is the common
est factor in human life. II cannot be
regarded from a different standpoint
whether Il occurs In accident Or in ordi-
lary course Of affairs. Within this
Hhte 800 die every day The tale Of
ieathz In the United States reaches 2,-
So daily. figure three times that Of the
victims Of the General Slocum.
There die annually In Greater New
York 5000 persons. a number larger
han that OF the population Of Tranton,
\ j. Within the United States graves
ne annually dug for more than million
ofins. In the face Of this vast harvest
{ mortality. the number slain on the
ieneral SIocum seems slight, even TO the
uman intellect. In the death rate Of the
ear FOR the state OF city the Siocum hor-
Dr. will hardly make an appreciable
iference. while IN the $1,000, 900 dead
the world each ~ months II is only a
ny item. Therefore. TO sober second
fought. the unreasoning instinct to
lace upon the power which the millions
gard as omnipotent-whether rightly
I wrongly does not enter into the ques-
on-and additional responsibility for
, slight an increase TO humanitys death
III appears patentiy absurd.