The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-11-10

Lists of dead and injured which read
like those OF a battle led to the estab-
lishment of the sane Fourth.
When is the sane sunday To- come
The question puts itself upon a re-
view Of the pleasure season which Is
Just ending. Examination Of ncwspa-
per files shows thai every sunday
since the beginning Of April when the
outdoor season may he said L. have
started has yielded It's harvest of dead
ana injured.
80 thoroughly is the public coming
To consider the sabbath in summer as
a day Of tragedy that II has been COM
mon during the past few months Ia
hear people say as they picked up the
Monday morning paper: well ! Won
der who was killed YESTERDAY"
| Tahulation of the reports of acct
dents Described in the Monday morning
newspapers of all the big cities Of the
| United states during the warm wealth
cr months of 1913 would undoubtedly
show figures many times in excess of
those herewith presented The figures
on which This article is based were OBJ
tained merely from examination of the
! lles 0f New York newspapers For
that reason the deaths and injuries re-
corded are almost entirely those from
the area near this city. 4 few of the
more serious accidents from places as
| far away AS Chicago found their way
INTO the casualty lists of local papers
bat as II whole it may be said that the
statistics are for accidents near New
York
Thousands of drownings. motor acct
/ dents. picnic ARRAYS, and the other
happenings which make Sunday the
national slaughter day, have occurred
on the first day Of the week these few
months past from Tallahassee to Seat
tie, Of which New York papers have
taken no notice. They have been suf-
iicicntlN busy with accidents near at
hand. And these accidents in what
may be- called the New York sphere Of
news are sufficient Ia show that tabu-
lation of the whole nations Sunday
killing and wounding since April would
he staggering.
The statistics start with Sunday,
April i, and end with Sunday, Sept. u.
During the twenty-five Sabbaths of
Outdoor revelry l73 persons were killed
and 250 We're injured. OF the injured a
number undoubtedly died because the
.y,
the injured probably would not re-
cover
The TRAGEDIES divide themselves into
three main classes-those due To auto
mobile accidents To browning acct
dents and Ia miscellaneous happenings.
The miscellaneous events include bat
ties at picnics and dances. when revol-
Ners, knives and empty bottles were
Welded To aid an American holiday:
smash-ups "a amusement parks.
wrecks of excursion trains and stree,
ears and runaways.
Drowning accidents hold first place
for deaths. with "a total of so AS
against this motor accidents yielded 5G
death, while miscellaneous tragedies
accounted for record of - killed.
The automobile FORCES To the front in
the lists of injured, accounting for
l31. Miscellaneous causes give ll3
injuries.
Many other accidents occurred in
which people tainted or were resusci-
tated after being apparently drowned,
or sustained severe nervous shock, or
were badly shaken up, or i'm which
extensive property loss occurred. Ac-
cidents of this sort are not considered
IN the tables presented herewith.
Examination Of the automobile acct
dent table will now show any disas-
ters due To- drunkenness. Careful read
ing of the accounts of numerous motor
accidents indicates that heavy drink
ing had proceeded the killing or
wounding. but If drunkenness was
specifically stated to be the cause in
only two cases no subdivision under
this head was made. large propor-
ton of the accident under the head
ing of miscellaneous" were. however.
undoubtedly due to intoXication, as
well as some accident under other SUBJ
divisions.
The grade crossing did it's work
again this summer. Accidents in which