New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-06
Six Dead, Scores
Injured,T Toll
OF Holiday
Two Young Girls Burned
to Death as Result of
Fireworks; 3 Persons
Drowned at the Beaches
Boy Killed by an Auto
Six Occupants of Car on
Scenic Railway Sent to
Hospital After Accident

Two young girls were burned to
death yesterday in New York City's
"safe and sane" independence Day cell
ebration. More than dozen other per-
sons were injured by fireworks or
wounded by stray bullets.
Three drownings were reported and
one death to an automobile accident.
Six persons were severely injured in an
accident on a Midland Beach, Staten
Island, scenic railway.
While playing with "sparkler" in
front Of her home, 428 Fifteenth Street,
Brooklyn, Martha Finkeldey, eight
years old, set her clothing afire. The
flames were extinguished BY her father,
but the little girl died later in Metho-
dist Episcopal hospital.
Grace Hanson, six, of 1875 Wadsworth
Avenue. was playing in the area of her
window threw out a fire cracker,
which exploded as it struck her, setting
her dress on fire. Patrolman Hcidler.
of the Haven Avenue station, heard her
scream, and. rushing into the area.
rolled the child on the ground until
the flames were extinguished. The
clothing was almost entirely burned
from her body. and she died shortly
after being taken to st. Lawrence Hos
pital.
Lad Accidentally Shoots Self
No one knows where Eugene Pan
dello, thirteen, of 204 East Thirtieth
Street, got the .22-caliber revolver with
which he was playing. None of his
family knew he had it, in fact, until
ne appeared at home with his hand
bandagcd. On being questioned he adj
united that he had shot himself through
the left palm, had gone Of his own
accord to Bellevue Hospital to be
treated, but couldn't remember where
the revolver had come from
W hen firecrackers he had put in g
can didn't go off quickly enough to suit
him, Harold Carney, fourteen. of 301
East Twcnty-sixth Street, peered in to
see what the trouble was He didn't
lind out, for the explosion which fol-
lowed destroyed his right eye and Sc
vcrcly injured the other.
Jennie De Luca, fifty, of rs Oal
street, was shot in the arm by pisto,
bullet fired, presume bly,, by cele-
orator.
Another revolver bullet struck Les
ter Warfeld, four, in the arm as he
was playing in front Of his home III
Essex Street
Lighted Cracker Burns Hand
Joseph Bernstein, sixteen, of 1888
Cherry Street, attempted to remove a
lighted tirccracker that an lndepen-
dence Day enthusiast had dropped in
his coat pocket. He was unable to do
so before he was badly burned on the
right hand.
Thrce-year- old Able Feinman, of $50
Madison Street. was burned about the
neck and shoulders when a frecracker
thrown at him dropped down inside
his collar.
George ROUGH, fourteen, of 66 Willctt
street, was burned on the left hand by
the premature explosion of q blank
cartridge pistol.
Rita Mallon, six, of 3Ol West 113th
Street. set her dress afirc with a ire
cracker and was racing up the street,
all aflamc, when Charles McDevitt, of
366 West 122d Street, and William
Bottle, of 3o2 Eighth Avenue, caught
her and smothered the flames in their
coats. She was taken to Harlem Hospi-
tai. Her condition is serious
Loses Life to Save Boy
Archie Brown, ten, of 23 Bedford
Avenue, Brooklyn, ventured out be-
yond his depth at Rockaway Point and
began to sink. Hallock Cowles, twenty
one, a drug clerk, of 3440 Broadway,
Manhattan, could only swim a little,
but he started after the lad. He reached
the spot where Archie had gone down,