New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-06
9 DEAD, 81 HURT,
FORTY-ONE FIRES,
COST OF FOURTH
Hospital Stats Work at
Top Speed Patching
Up CelebratOrS,
FORTY-S SEVEN BURNED;
AUTOS INJURE FOUR
DrowningS Follow in Wake OF
Crowds-Runaway Adds Three
TO Casualty List.

Holding closely 20 the record Of Sun
day. WHOM th.rte,0 were Alet and hity
injured trc celebration Of Indepon-
acucc Day yesterday resulted in the
death of nine persons in and near the
el,y and the injuring Of sixty-seven
Eight lost their lives by drowning and
o-a death was caused by fall from a
Ere escape while playing with spark
Ter"
Most Of the injuries were caused by
burns resulting from premature explo-
siors Of fireworks and by blank cart
ridges. F;fty-s.x were treated for
burns. three were hurt in a runaway
five rescued from drowning and four
hurt I'M automobile accidents.
Hospital stalls were busy treating
those who received burns, which in the
majority of cases were from blank
cartridges. At Flower Hospital eleven
cases were treated. at Bellevue ten, at
Hudson Street six, at Gouyerneur five
at German four. at tho Volunteer three,
81 Reception two and at Harlem, Roose-
Welt. Lebanon. Polytechnic and Presby-
terrain one each. Two people refused
medical attention.
Fire Commissioner Adamson was
highly pleased at the fire record for
the day. which was normal forty-one
alarms. Last year there were fifty
,bree fires The average daily record
is fortv-onc. and Adamson feels that
the work of the Fire Prevention Bureau
is now bearing fruit.
From early morning the entire pre-
vention squad. aided by a number OF
uniformed hremen, went about the city
hating the sale of fireworks by un-
licensed dealers A large quantity Of
GOOD, was seized when the dealers were
summoned 20 court.
Boy Killed by Fall.
Tony TedIsio, three years old. was
PLAYING with a "sparkler' on the hre
escape OF bis parents fiat, on the third
floor Of 225 East Nth Street. lie
leaned over 10 watch the sparks, fell,
ana was Instantly killed.
AmNo Crico, sixteen years old, threw
giant urecrGcker under Mrs. kath-
NI.IF 4tllIaltf ga 'fA A~t-'~ $500
Street. The Bronx, while she was stand
inc in front Of her home, carrying her
six-mouths-old baby. She was burned
about the legs. CricO was sent 10 the
workhouse for ten days when arralgned
iu Night Court.
Mrs. Albertino Linfarete, sitting in
the ward of her home, 29O East l46th
Street, The Bronx, received scalp
wound when q bullet fired by man IN
another yard went through the fence.
She was only slightly injured.
Some boys fired off huge hrecracker
a. SNtieth Street and West End Ave-
nue.. The explosion hurled some loose
stones through the air, and one struck
Margaret Kelly eleven, Of p West End
avenue. She was taken TO Knicker-
booker Hospital with possible tract
ured skull.
-Four men were drowned at the Rock
Always. Joseph Muhlens, twenty three,
Of 1871 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn. and
Arthur vs.. Poulsen, nineteen, Of %
Patchcu Avenue, were drowned despite
the efforts of three friends at Rock
away Point. There being no telephone
at the point the accident was reported
10 the Couey Island police by John An
del. Of 2-t Second Street, Manhattan,
who went 90 Couey Island on the ferry.
Two doctors went over from the Coney
Island Hospital when they heard that
Pou.sen's body had been recovered.
Camper browns.
At Eockaway Beach Morris Smith,
aged tWeuty-four. of p Randolph Ave
hue, EocEaway, was carried out 70 sea.
Joseph Orery Of "A Division Avenue,
SWAN after him and brought him TO the
beach after hard struggle. lie was
taken TO the Rockaway Beach Hospital
suffering from shock and exhaustion.
AT 4,t1 in the afternoon John r.
ThlIteutam, clerk, living at SO Van
Sickle Street, Brooklyn, was drowned
while bathing on the same beach. lie
got beyond his depth and became ex-
hausted. The body was not recovered.
William Lancaster, eighteen, one Of
seven boys from Belleville, y. j., who
have been camping az Greenwood Lake,
on the state line, dived from row
boat yesterday afternoon and failed
TO return 90 the surface. His body was
recovered fifteen minutes later, but he
could not bee revived. Henry Dennlson,
a fellow-campcr, was with him in the
boat at the time
Young Lancaster had recently been
graduated from the Belleville High
School, where he was president of his
class lie intended TO enter Princeton
IN the fall
While trying 10 rescue his friend
George II. Walters, Of no McDonough