Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
CARNAGE OF THE 4TH
MANY KILLED AND HURT cELE.
6RATING THE GLORIOUS"
Misguided Patriotism Makes a Long
Death RoIl-Deadly Lock Jaw Is
Next and Many of the Injured Are
Sure to Succumb.

| Slight in them selves but harboring the
| tetanus germ and resulting in lockjaw
and death, are still 10 add horrors to
| the grisly tale. Stray bullets did the
usual amount of killing. Fools with
cannon crackers and other deadly
weapons used them where they would
do the most damage. The premature
explosion was much in evidence, So
the hospitals were crowded and the
! procession to the cemeteries began.
From returns compiled on the 9th
the roster of dead throughout the coun-
try held rs victims of misguided pa
tfiotism. The lists of the injured were
swelled largely when final inventories
| Of the wounded were taken, and the
totals received show that more than
1900 persons spent the 9th in sorrow
and tribulation. The totals are far
from complete, for nearly every remote
hamlet in the country has its martyrs,
and months will elapse before the final
statistics are gathered. The expert
ence of former years has demonstrated
that the full death toll of the ''glori-
ous'' is never completed until several
weeks have passed.
| Many Killed and Hurt.
| Pittsburg heads the list of cities for
loss of life. fifteen deaths being re-
ported In Philadelphia there was only
one death, but the wounded numbered
hundreds. In the hospitals of the
birthplace of independence GAS persons
were treated for injuries during the
| day. Late reports from Los angeles
show that four deaths occurred in that
city as the direct result of the noisy
| celebration.
In Chicago the death roll reached
seven. Several victims were claimed in
| post-Fourth celebrations With fire
works marked down, Young America,
and in many cases Old America as WE'LL
simply couldn't resist the temptation to
buy, and the 9th Of July pyrotechnics
added a large number to the already
large list of injured dead and dying.
At Peoria, Therrold Rogers, Is years
old, tried to bore out the muzzle of a
cannon which happened to be loaded.
When the steel bit struck the powder
the young man was hurled thirty feet
md seriously injured.
In Be1oit, Wis, an italian, who had
been in the country only fifteen days,
was shot in the head by boy who sup
posed he had only a toy pistol. The
man is expected to die.
Reports from Cincinnati were TO the
effect that the entire business section of
the town of Moscow, Ohio, was wiped
out on The Fourth by a blaze that
started from the explosion of a torpe-
do near a 200-gallon tank of gasoline,
the tap Of which was running.
Early in the morning a fire started
at Decatur City, Iowa, that burned
eleven business houses and other build
ings The loss is $4,000 and the fire is
attributed to smoldering cracker stubs
Many Fires Are Caused.
In many cities there were other
blazes as the outcome of the fireworks.
II Pittsburg the O'Neil Building, at
SOC Fifth avenue, burned and several
persons were rescued only by spectacu-
lar her0ism on the part of the freight
ers.
In race riot in New York during
the final hours of the celebration Po-
liceman Edward Conrad was probably
fatally injured. The trouble started
when the officer seized negro who
was discharging pistol on the street
At once hundreds of negro celebrants
rushed up, and, selling the policeman
slashed him with razors. A riot call
brought succor, and the fight that en-
sued lasted half an hour.
Lower Salem, Ohio. was the scene of
pitched battle between two whole viii
lagos during celebration of the
Fourth. A picnic had been arranged
at Salem, and the whole masculine pop
uiation of Elba turned out Unfriend-
ly rivalry between the two towns start
ed row, the town marshal was I'M
able to preserve the peace and the me-
lee ceased only when the participants
sank from exhaustion. Hundreds We're
hurt.
Another 'joker" appeared at Glad
den, Pa. He gave a pound OF black
powder to seven small children for a
plaything. They are in the hospital.
Dangerous fireworks are made to be
exploded. If their manufacture were
prohibited under penalty, if their sale
We're made serious offense, If harm
less substitutes for deadly toys were
generally used by sensible persons. the
Fourth of July soon would take on an
air of sanity and the pleasures of The
day would be multiplied. Public opiE-
ion must deal firmly with this matter.
The slaughterous holiday must be re-
formed.
The noises of the Fourth drove Mrs.
Johanna Evert to insanity, and after
frightening her neighbors she hanged
herself from bedpost in her home in
Jersey City.
At Waukegan, H., Henry Meyers, IL
years old, met death while returning
from Fourth of July picnic. The
little boy stood ON the tracks of the
St Paul Railroad within 500 feet of
his home watching an exhibition of
fireworks, when an express train bore
down upon him, killing him instantly.
Judge J. T. Anderson. a lawyer in
Manitowoc. Wis. and prominent in the
G. A. r.. lost an eye. An unknown per
son threw cannon cracker into a |
crowd, and it struck the judge in the |
face.
Capt. Ottley, the naval British dele
gate, who is the inventor of the subma- |
rine mines now generally in use. appeal
ed to/'The Hague conference to abolish
the anchored mine. to prohibit the use
of those kinds liable to get adrift and TO /