New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-05
One Burned to Death Play
ing with Sparkler-Sev-
eral Are Drowned.
ALTO KILLS FAMILY
OF FOUR IN TRENTON
Autos and Motorcycles Add
Many to Days Long List of
Killed and Manned.

Thirteen persons were killed and
more .han forty were injured in and
,bou, New York during their "safe and
.s,er celebration Of the Fourth Of July.
Ore Of the deaths and thirty-fve Of
,be injuries were caused BY the prema-
,,re explosion Of fireworks or the reck-
less shooting of Of firearms. William
Sexton. OF Isl East Thirty-sixth Street,
Manhattan. was burned to death while
o'av,rr with q frework known as a
"sparkcr'
The warm weather drove crowds Of
-s-sons 90 the beaches and rivers about
.te city TO battle There were many res
,,ss Of men. women and children who
vertured beyond their depth, and three
i~ow-ings. Those who died in the
v..e- Yesterday were Henry Speicher,
- tf4S DcKalb Avenue, Brooklyn;
Sorh.e BENJAMIN. Of 1874 Allen Street.
Manhattan. and George Levine, Of
Union Hill, NJ
Automobiles claimed the largest toll
o. killed and injured. SIX persons died
s, accidents caused BY them and TWEEN
.v..hree others were injured. Four
rersons the whole Mayer family-of
Trenton. y. j., were wiped out when
their car was struck near FsrmingGale,
NJ. by the Atlantic City express Of
,te Central Railroad OF New Jersey.
,.,,-., ,..-;.,.. .L.o 5o,. br r,o+or
-.
vehicles were Nr. ana MIS- hooer'
Vsver. Ethel Mayer and Herbert Mayer.
.r ~ T-er.o7. Clarence Sheridan, Of
D." W i'''"'
E-g.evood and Henrietta NJ. Haynes
NJ che H0tel Martha Washington. New
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Ne"aIA 5 'la' "ie"OiN NS 81"
four years since the adoption OF the
...ts and sane" ordinance-occurre
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yesterday Fu-' eai -O'N "
ton. Of l5l East Ihlrty-siXth street.
Manhattan, died from burns he had re-
ce.yed while playing with SparKIers
near the home Of his grandmother Mrs.
Anna Evans, 1870 seventeenth avenue
Newars. DE had gone with ms parents e.n!.s
90 Ne"aFt 20 ce4eDFaIe 'he AoIluay ~
DIS eraAlmolAei' ana on 9@'uI Jay nc
seq tIe to ms c-oihlng' lie u'eu yes
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Boy Shoots Pedestrian.
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t. -.-.r c.r-.. ,,-bo ~ ettacbed 10
.-.-.-.-r ra-ro+'s star was among
.r-. box. ~ Fas- TreIItb Street last
...-. .t., | o-e bov marched INTO the
.r.. v.-- -ev6lver As NcGeogh
.r.t .9 -.Ee IL away from him il ex-
r....l and tore tho dstective's left
hand f-a was treated NJ BeIevue.
u.r-- Pab.cg fourteen. Of 314 East
~t.,-..tf.- Stree. was shot in the
r.tt hand with "a blank cartridge and
f.ft. r. treated ~ Bellevue. Another
r..... v.- Florence Kohl. thirteen,
- .r las. Sixteenth Street. whose
trs IA. ts5ly burned bv q cartr. dge
...- l, vo,,-b who y.as NOT caught
T-.a-- foDoDougb thirteen. Of 325
r.- -..,1 S+~eo+ was el.ot in the
rr-. l.-F tv a blark cartridge al
T+.-... .a,s-.I S,ree+ and First Ave
r.e rr.arb Coorey. fifteen. Of 1873
r.s. rrr-,. ninth Street had his eft
band .....rcI ;r .ba came rav AZ Eff
..a.t -.-.,+ nd second Avenue Josonb
Bes.+~ r,rateer. Of 200 Averue G. was
also .fot IN The hand At Avenue c and
Eleventh c-ree- All were treated bv
I-. P.f.5ce al BELLEVUE. George
barry eleven Of 413 East Twenty
..,-- e,-.s+ o1eo sustained iniuries
Of ,Fe hand When how shot him with
a Ns-E caItridre He. too. was taken
Pc Pcr.,.a
James Pidore. fourteen, of 500 Old
Broadway walked into the West l25th
Stree, station last night. with his
check bound with q handkerchief. To
Lieutenant Kerr he said that he and
several companions were playing will
lam Tcro near his home. His plav-
mate. t~io3 +boir skiIl with a TOW ristol.
and p. u.se boctod mn soaiDet a fence
wi.h an srrIo or his eboulder one
Of -le b's1t cartridges vent TOO close
90 the bov and at The Knickerbocker
Hospital be was found TO have d lace
rated check
When four-vear-old Francis Deloz. Of
i'll West Sixtv-fourth Street. was set
ting oF frecrackqr near his home
lasf nira+ o. strange how ran m and
aimed "a ,,,ol,or - him telling the
LITTLE fellow he was a dead Indian. ."
BE fred a brark cartridge. and the flash
burned tho cbiId's wrist He was treat
cd az Roosevelt Hospital.
As FIe.-ra c.,eoimo ',oor two yosrs old.
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