The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-08
AUTO DEATH TOLL IN 1925
LEADS 1924
Heavy Fatalities In Metropolitan
Centers-Baltimore Shows

Heavy Fatalities In Metropolitan
Centers-Baltimore Shows
Increase
Automobiles took far heavier
toll of human life in 1925 than in
the preceding year, figures gathered
by the Associated Press from g
number of the larger cities indicate.
Many of the great metropolitan cen
tiers with few notable exception
were in the column of heavier fataii-
ties, while a number of the smaller
cities reported a slight increase from
1924.
American cities forty reported P
heavier death toll for the year just
ended, while in twenty the death
list was approximately the same or
somewhat lower. In a number OF
the latter places, however, the
statistics did not cover the entire
year
Among the larger cities Chicago
suburbs reported 7S7 deaths in 1925
against 7O3 the previous years in
Philadelphia the fatality list, jumped
from 2S5 to 1925; the increase in
Detroit and vicinity was from 1886
to 395: Cincinnati, from 103 to 129.
and Cleveland, 1856 to 205. In
creases also were noted at Coium.
bus, Toledo, Atlanta, Louisville
Birmingham, Boston, Memphis. Ok
lahoma City, Tulsa, Jersey City
Providence, Seattle and Portland.
Ore, Baltimore reports lis agains.
80 in 1924.
In New York city, st Louis and
Kansas City fatality figures for the
two years virtually were the same
but the New York figures covered
only the first ten months of each
year. Fewer automobile deaths oc-
Cured in the nations capital and in
Pittsburgh, New Orleans, San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles.
In the first ten months of 1925
there were SO deaths in New York
city, against sos for the same period
in 1924; Kansas City reported rs
in the year just past as against rs
for 1924, while the 1925 figure in
st. Louis was 1872, an increase of
In Washington deaths decreased
from 81 to 49, the figure for Pitts
burgh and vicinity was 1s5, against
1874; while New Orleans. incomplete
reported 70, against "a in 1924. 4
decrease also was noted in Buffalo
but the figures covered only eleven
months.
Out OF ten important Pacific
Coast cities only Los Angeles and
San Francisco, the largest, showed
decreases. Los Angeles 1925 total
was 271, compared with 800; while
San Francisco dropped from 1O3
to SO.
Increases were noted in virtually
every instance where the figurec
were analysed by larger geographic
units. Out of eleven leading Ohio.
cities only NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ed decrease. Four cities In Penn
sylvania, excluding Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh, showed decreases. but
the figures covered only clever
months.
OF ten leading cities in the South
all but two reported more fatalities
For Virginia for eight months deaths
in 1925 totaled $50 against 144 for
the same period in 1924. In NORTH
Carolina the jump was from sS7
to 351.
Six large cities in Kansas rcporte
a 1925 toll of rs compared to 50
In Connecticut there were 35'
deaths, an increase of AS; five out
Of seven leading communities ir
Michigan reported increases.
In the East increases were an
uounced at Atlantic City, Providence
r. l.: Jersey City. N. j., and Wor
cester and Lowell. Mass. with de
,reases at Albany and Syracuse
N. Y. and Springfield. Mass. ir
the Far West heavier toll was re-
ported at Seattle. Pasadena, Lone
Beach, Portland and Spokane.