Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-05
CHICAGO TRIBUNE FIGURES
Number Of Injuries Given as SIG
Less Than Last Year.
MURDER ADDS TO NUMBER
Woman and Child Shot by Negroes
at Washington, Pa.-Reports
From Many Cities.

CHICAGO, Ill, July 5.-The restrain
ed observance of the Fourth of July
has resulted in a material decrease in
the number of casualties in the coun-
try, according to figures compiled by
the Chicago Tribune.
This years list of dead throughout
the country, so far as reported, totals
twenty-eight. Last year the same total
was forty-four. The whole number of
injured last year was 1881. This year
they were only 1885
Many Fires in Chicago.
In Chicago the sane Fourth Of July
celebration resulted in one death and
injury to twenty-five persons. Last
year forty-seven were injured and one
person was killed.
All fire alarms in Chicago were brok-
en- yesterday. when the department re-
sponded to 160 calls in the twenty-f -four
hours.
The largest number Of alarms turned
IN IN, on any previous ,as day was in 1904.
of July there were but 56, and the prop
erty loss was insignificant. The prop
erty loss yesterday is estimated at
| $4,000.
New York's Quiet Day.
NEW YORK, July 5.-The first denat
ured safe and sane" Fourth in New
York city passed into history last night
with not a single death by gunshot
| wounds, explosions or burns to mark It's
exit, with very little noise and compare
lively few people to hear what little noise
there was. Although the hospitals re-
ported an excess over the usual run Of
accidents, the number was insignificant
as compared with the hundreds of former
years: Fires were few and damage
trivial.
| To point the contrast, in Jersey City,
across the Hudson, where the Fourth ex-
ploded in it's usual fervor, there were as
many; if not more. accidents than ever:
In the morning an elaborate parade was
reviewed at the city nall park by the
mayor: in the afternoon games and ex-
ercises by the children Of $50 schools,
and in the evening municipal displays of
| fireworks in seventeen city parks, signal
lied the day.
The weather was ideal, a little warm,
but not oppressive. The maximum tenn
perature for the day was 81 degrees at
2:30 pm. One death by heat prostration
was reported.
Boy Killed in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, July 5.-As the re-
suit of a Fourth of July accident
Thomas Grouse, aged eleven years, was
shot in the back and almost instant
ly killed yesterday as he was walking
with his thirteen-year-old sister past
| a crowd of boys who were shooting re-
volvers on a corner near his home. Two
seventeen year youths, who were
arrested later in the day and held to
| answer for the boys death, claim that
| they had used only blank cartridges
! in their revolvers. This was the only
! fatality reported in this city, although
i there were a number of serious acct
| dents and hundreds of minor injuries
i from explosives.
1 Nine-year- Ray Neiman was shot
| in the leg and hand, his brother. George,
aged fifteen years, had his thumb blown
off and Harold Eldridge was burned
about the chest when a homemade
cannon prematurely exploded at day
break
| In Camden, where last year there
were five people killed and thirty-s TX
were reported. The safe and sane
Fourth Of July ordinance recently pass
ed there was rigidly enforced
Thirty Families Homeless.
| BLOOMSBURY, Pa, July "a fire
which did damage amounting to ap-
proximately 100000 destroyed sixty
buildings, made thirty families home
less and wiped out the business and
residential section of Benton. Columbia
county, occurred yesterday An explod-
ing firecracker, thrown among the
straw in the barn of George Crossley,
was the cause of the fire.
| The fire broke out about o'clock in
the afternoon ana it was not until late
last night, after aid had been sent from
this place, that the flames were under
control.
Shot by Negro Woman.
| WASHINGTON, Pa, July 1.-Two per-
| sons were shot in cold blood by negroes
as a result of the Fourth of July cele-
| bration here. Five children were set
| ting off fireworks in front Of their home
| last night when surrey with two ne
| gro couples drove past.
A woman in the vehicle shot a re-
volver toward the children, and bullet
passed through the body of nine-year-old
Thelma Deyere and lodged in the Shout