Evening star., 1925-07-13
61 DIE IN M|SHAPS
DURING WEEK END
20 Drown. 19 Are Killed in
Motor Crashes and Heat
Adds 6 to List.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 15.-More than
three score persons were killed
throughout the country as a result of
the heat wave, lighting, automobile,
flying and bathing mishaps and other
causes.
With thousands of persons seeking
relief from the humidity at beaches,
deaths from drowning led the fatali-
ties, 2S lives being lost. Nineteen
were killed in automobile smashups,
four were slain by lightning, six died
of the heat, three perished in train
explosion and one met death in an
airplane accident. In addition, sew
eral score were injured, mostly in
motor car accidents.
Three Die in New York.
Three of the heat deaths were re-
corded in New York City, where the
second hottest Sunday of the year
was reported. The mercury there
rose TO 81 degrees with a high hu-
midity. In the Middle West the high
est temperature was at Des Moines-
100 degrees-while the SO point was
reached at Lincoln, Nebr.. with 81 the
record at Omaha. Chicago contrib
uted two to the heat death total, and
Sioux City, Iowa, one. Missouri's hot
weather was reduced by q heavy
rainfall.
1t was estimated that O.0O0 Chi
cagoans f1ocked to the beaches Sun
day, two drownings being recorded
here. The bathers witnessed an un-
usual spectacle, a small tidal wave.
At intervals of Is to 80 seconds the
lake level dropped two and one-half
feet, and the water receded from 75
to 100 feet from the normal water
line. Seventeen persons were drowned
in New York State, New Jersey and
New England. Oklahoma City re-
ported one, Denver one. Ashland.
Nebr., one; Perry, Tex, two; while
four others occurred at various points
in Iowa.
A member of fishing party was
/ killed by lightning at Mantle, Conn.
A bather at New Haven met death
from the same cause. One was killed
at Mobile. Ala. A fourth fatality was
recorded in the west when lightning
started 40 forest fires in Idaho and
northern Washington.
10 Motor Deaths.
Motor crash fatalities in New York
State, New Jersey and New England
totaled six. Two were killed in Chi
cago and seven in Ohio over the week
end. County Judge Frank Sass and
Mrs. Sass were victims at Willow
Springs, Mo. One was killed at River
side. Calf, and one near Boulder, Colo.
AT, Gainesville, Tex, DIR. Roy E.
Hughes was burned to death and
James Cole. former Army aviator,
was probably fatally injured when
Hughes plane crashed to the ground,
while three unidentified men were
killed and six others were unaccount-
ed for when an explosion and fire de-
stroyed eighteen tank cars of gasoline
near Taylor, Tex. The loss was esti-,
MAYED at several hundred thousand
dollars.
Mayor John Dillis of Rockaway.. n.
J., died of excitement at a base ball
game at which his son knocked
three-bagger at a critical moment.
and a man at Houston, Tex, was
burned to death.
TWenty-SiX persons were injured in
automobile accidents in and near Den
yer. Two were hurt at Chatta nooga,
four at Paris. ILL.,, when a racing au-
tomobile crashed through a fence, and
twelve at Los Angeles, when an auto
mobile bus struck an oil truck.
The automobile accident death toll
for the week in II Middle Western
States was 8s. as follows: Indiana,
20; Oh1o, lS; Texas, Z; Michigan, IA;
Missouri, 6; Illinois, 8; Kansas, a;
Oklahoma, 8; Minnesota and South
Dakota, 2 each; Wisconsin and Ken
lucky, 1 each. The two automobile
deaths in Chicago brought the total
for this city and vicinity so far this
year to 1885,
Toll Is % i'm East.
NEW YORK. July 13 Cp.-The Sec
ond hottest Sunday of the year in the
East had a death toll of %.
Three deaths due to the heat were
recorded in New York City. Seven
teen persons We're drowned in New
York and New England.
Thousands sweltered when the
thermometer rose to 81 degrees. ac-
companied by As per cent humidity.
Massachusetts, had the greatest num-.
ber of drownings, two near Boston. two
at Blackstone and one each at Pitts
field and North Brookfield; New York
State was next with five, two in New
York City and one each at Utica, Old
Forge and Wells. In Connecticut
there were drownings at Woodstock
and Middletown. There was one
drowning at Bayonne, n. J.; one at
Pompton Lake. n. j.; one at Asbury
Park. n. j., and one at Providence.