New Britain herald., 1925-07-13
Drownings Claim 2S Lives, l9 Die In Auto Smashes, Lightning And Heat Each Take Six.
 
24O,OOO Chicago People Flock to Lake Beaches Rockaway Mayor Dies of Excitement When Son Hits Three Eager at Ball Game.
By The Associated Press,

By The Associated Frees,
 Chicago, July IS F-Mors than three score persons were killed Sun day throughout the country as ths result of the heat wave, lightning. automobile, flying and bathing mis- haps and other cuses,
 DrowningS Lead Deaths
 With thousands of persons seek ing relief from the humidity at beaches, deaths from drownings led the fatalities, @S lives being lost, Nineteen were killed in automobile smashups; four were slain by lightning; six died of the heat, three perished in a train explosion and one met death in an airplane accident. In addition several score were injured mostly in motor car accidents,
 Second Hottest Sunday
 Three of the heat deaths wers recorded in New York city, wheta the second hottest Sunday of ths year was reported, The mercury there rose 10 9t degrees with a high humidity. In the middle west the highest temperature was at Des Moines-lNo degrees-while the aS point was reached at Loucoln, Neb.. l with 97 the record at Omaha, Chicago contributed two to the heat death total and Sioux City. Iowa, one, Missouri's hot weather was reduced by heavy rainfall
 ai0,00o at Lake Reachcr ] It was estimated that 000o Chicagoans nocked 10 the beaches Sunday. two drovnlnEs being re- corded here. The bathers wit messed an unusual 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 s 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. Neb., one; Perry. Tex, two; whiIe four others occurred at various points in Iowa.
 Lightning Kills Two A member of a 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, X fourth fatality was recorded in the west when lightning started forty forest fires in Idaho and northern Wash ington.
 Motor Fatalities
 Motor crash fatalities In New York state, New Jersey and New England totalled six. two were killed in Chicago and seven in Ohio over the weekend. County Judge Frank Sass and Mrs. Sass were vic- tims at Willow Springs, Mo. One was killed at Riverside Cal, and ono near Boulder, Colo.
 Other Tragedies
 At Gainesville, Texas, nr. Roy E. , Hughes was buried to death and 1 James Cole, a former army aviator, was probably fatally injured when Hughes plano crashed 10 the ground. while three unidentified men were killed and six others were un- accounted for when an explosion and fire destroyed IS tanks Of gaso- line near Taylor. Texas The loss was estimated at several hundred ! thousand dollars.
 Mayor John Willis, of Rockaway, i N. l. died of excitement at base hall game al which his son knocked a three bagger at a critical moment. and a man at Houston. Tex. was i burned to death.
 Auto Accidents
 Twenty-stX persons were injured in automobile accident in and near { Denver. Two were hurt at Chat tanooga, four al Paris rl.. when A racing automobile crashed through fence, and 12 Rt Los Angeles when m automobile bus struck an oil truck.
 The automobilc accident death toll for the week in ls middle west. ern states was SS. as follows. In- diana 25; Ohio IS; Texas :: Michi. gan II; Missouri $: Illinois s; kansas (; Oklahoma 8. Minnesota and South Dakota each. wiscon. sin and Kentucky each. The two automobile deaths in Chicago brought the total for tnts city and vicinity so far this year 10 sS5.