Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-07-12
CARNAGE OF THE lTH
MANY KILLED AND HURT cELE.
BRATTNG TIE "GLoRIoUS."
hIistruiJed Patriotism Makes n Iona
Death RoIl-Deadiy Lock Jaw Is
i Next and Many of the Injured Are
sure To SGccumb.

sure 70 Sgccumb.
Lists OF killed and wounded pub
iiShed the day after the Fourth tell
My part oe the story of slaughter.
The drefdful after effects of hurts
Night in Themselves. but ~harboring the
,etaaus germ and resulting in lockjaw
and death, are still to 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
tle 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 IS victims of misguided pa
triotism. The lists of the injured We're
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
rom 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 ana 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 CHS persons
We're 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
eve Several victims We're claimed in
post-Fourth celebrations. With fire
works marked down, Young America,
and in many cases Old America as well,
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.
the young man was hurled thirty feet
and seriously injured.
In Beloit, Wis, an italian. who had
beer in the country only fifteen days,
was shot in the head by a 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 %2OO-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 $2T,OOO 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
In Pittsburg the O'Neil Building, al
SOC Fifth avenue, burned and several
persons were rescued only by spectacu'
lar heroism on the part of the freight
ers.
In a race riot in New York during
the final hours Of the celebration Pc
liceman Edward Conrad was probably
fatally injured. The trouble started
when the officer seized a negro whc
was diseiiarging a pistol on the street
At once hundreds of negro celebrants
rushed up. and, Selling the policeman
slashed him with aZors a riot cal
brought succor. and the fight that en-
sued lasted half an hour.
Lower Salem. Ohio, was the scene o.
a pitched battle between two whole vii
lagos during a celebration of The
Fourth. A picnic had been arranged
at Salem, and the whole masculine pop
ulation of Elba turned out. Unfriend
ly rivalry between the two towns start
ed a row the town marshal was I'm
able to preserve the peace and the me
lee ceased only when the participant.
sank from exhaustion. Hundreds were
hurt.
Another ".joker" appeared at Glad
den, Pa. He gave a pound Of blacl
powder to seven small children for
plaything. They are in the hospital.
Dangerous fireworks are made to b,
exploded. If their manufacture were
prohibited under penalty, IL their salt
We're made a serious ~offense, if harm
| less substitutes for deadly toys were
generally used by sensible persons, tht
Fourth of July soon would take on III
air Of sanity and the pleasures of thu
day would be multiplied. Public Opin
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 aftel
frightening her neighbors she hanged
herself from a bedpost in her home il
Jersey City
At Waukegan, Ill, Henry Meyers. II
! years old. met death while returning
from 4 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,