Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-01
DEATHS BY VIOLENCE
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS HEAD LIST
MURDERS AND SUICIDES.

By the appalling catastrophe at Terra
Gotta. d. c. on the tracks of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad only few hours before
the end of the year, when, &C
cording to the best information OBJ
tainable this morning, forty-one lives
were snuffed out in the twinklng
of an eye, the record of violent deaths in
the District of Columbia during 1906 was in
creased nearly 20 per cent above the total
as it stood on the morning of December
80 Before the wreck occurred the fatai-
ties in the city during the year due entirely
to external and violent causes totaled 24O.
The wreck Swelled the final figures to Isl,
and more may yet be added from the list of
| the seriously injured who are under treat
ment in the various hospitals and in their
homes.
lit suicides topped the 1906 list Of violent
deaths until yesterday. Before that time
accidents on railroads added to a few on
street railways came second; The total OF
deaths by suicide was AZ. Railroad accidents
caused 80 fatalities before the wreck. The
year total in this class Of violent deaths
was q.
the violent deaths to have been distributed
as follows: Murder, IA; suicide, 43; burns,
20; railroad and street car accidents. 49,;
legal hanging. q falls, 3d.; general acct
dents on the streets, IL: drowning, 81; ac-
cidental poisoning, -; accidental shooting,
2: automobile accidents 2: miscellaneous,
such as tetanus and blood poisoning from
apparently slight wounds, heavy objects
falling upon human heads or bodies, etc,
49,
In other years among active agencies in
cases of suicide, carbolic acid always was
frequently seen, but SO much has been
written about the extreme suffering incident
to death from this poison and the opera
ton of the new pharmacy law has made
this and other deleterious mixtures so diff
hot r,11 ha TT
seem to have consigned carbolic to the rear
Illuminating gas and revolvers shared the
questionable honor OF being most popular
with Westinghouse bent upon self-de-
struction last year, twelve persons having
found death by inhaling gas and eleven
by perforatng heart or head with bullets.
Four others cut their threats with raZors
two swallowed strychnine, one Rough on
Rats" one laudanum, one cyanide Of pot
ash, three jumped from windows or other
high places and one drowned sorrow and
self in the river.
The first month of the year In passing
witnessed twenty violent deaths of which
number six were registered by the coroner
as suicides. Two men, James Wood and
William HUMPHREYS, mistook wood alcohol
for another liquid in January and "acci-
dental poisoning" was entered on each
death certificate. Helen E. Burke, five years
old, who was burned to death in her home
! in Georgetown January 3 was the first cor
oners case of the year, and before the
month ended three other persons-Clara NJ
Inco, 1925 37th street; Albert Flynn, cook,
, and Mrs. Violet LeiZear of Maryland died
) from the effects of burns variously received
Eva Barnes, colored, stabbed to death by
Charles Edward Cant. figured as victim in
the first homicide of the year. Cant was
| hanged in November.
Coroner Neyitt's first official act during
the month of February was to issue GER
tificate in the case of William Walter
Hamilton, colored, who was executed at
the District jail for the murder of Lizzie
7 &c nY1n Ii milf
deaths from violence occurred during the
month. Maurice ]. Halloran, an inmfte
of the Soldiers Home, was assaulted and
robbed near Ohio avenue and 18th street
and he died from wounds received In the
encounter. Charles r. Evans and Harry
J. ODonnell are in jail awaiting trial on
charge Of having committed the double
crime. Michael callighan, an ex-soldier;