The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-05
HOLIDAY DEATH
TOLL MAY PASS
800 MARK SOON
Nation Pays Price of July
4th Spree; Indiana Next
to New Jersey.

to New Jersey.
BIZ United Press
Indiana's Fourth of July celebra-
ton cost forty-one lives.
It was the highest total reported
by any state, with the exception of
New Jersey, where forty-two lives
were lost.
This afternoon 280 casualties
throughout the nation had been re-
ported by the United Press. The
number of injured was well up in
the thousands.
Like Major Disaster
Pennsylvania had fourteen deaths,
Ohio, 10; Michigan, II, and the
Chicago district, IL
The celebration assumed the pro-
portions of major disaster, similar
to devastating floods and hurri-
canes, as reports continued to come
in.
Auto accidents, drownings and
fireworks explosions shared the
blame. Dozens of the victims were
little children, and in many cases it
was bystanders rather than actual
celebrants who paid the price.
Firecrackers tossed carelessly
l about took many innocent victims.
NDrunken drivers, foolish swimmers,
neglectful parents, often were re-
sponsible.
Rocket Causes Panic
In Chicago, what had been her
aided as the "sanest Fourth" ended
tragically when a defective sky,
rocket plunged into a pile of fire.
works at a supervised exhibition,
setting fire to the entire stock, and
causing panic among 1000 spec
tators.
Twenty-Five were burned, and
many children were trampled.
But only one death from fire
works, that of ten-year-old girl,
was reported. Automobile accidents
took ten lives.
Reports from other cities follow:
NEW -Thirty-seven killed,
of whom seventeen were drowned.
nineteen died in traffic accidents.
and one from fireworks injuries.
More than 300 were injured by fire
works.
Accepting Dare Cost Life
PITTSBURGH-Ten killed, more
than thirty injured. Four picnick-
ers died when train hit their auto,
five drowned in summer camps, and
one man jumped to death from
bridge because some one dared him.
WASH1NGTON-Three killed in
motor accidents, and twelve injured
by fireworks Gertrude Hall, 9,
threw herself in front of an auto to
save her 5-year-old brother. She
died, but saved the boy The driver,
a Negro, was hurried to Jail at
Montrose, Va, under heavy guard
lin fear of mob violence.
NEW ORLEANS drowned
and one killed in auto accident.
Amos kid Carlin, prize fighter,
was among the dead.
Z BALTIMORE+Five killed and
twenty-five seriously injured A
Roman candle burned girl of IL
to death. A bicyclist was caught
between two street cars. A sales
man, who had tried to commit sui
eide on a previous July 4, succeeded
this year. He dived three stories
from a hotel window.
LOS ANGELES-Three killed,
scores injured.
ST. LOUIS-Three killed and 1853
injured.
Driver Falls Asleep
BETHLEHEM killed when
an auto driver went to sleep and
his machine plunged into a tree.
DENVER = Four deaths were
caused respectively by a torpedo in
a mans pocket, a misdirected gun
salute, an auto crash and the &C.
ment bottom of swimming pool
struck by a diver.
X KANSAS CITY-Eleven deaths in
Southwest, many of whom were
children. Clyde Goats, auto racer,
killed at Abilene, Texas, and two
sisters drowned together at Musko-
gee, Okla.
LAWRENCE, MASS.-Two boys
found an old revolver in some rub
Dish. Five minutes later Paul
Leonargi, II, had killed his 9-year-
old brother, because he didn't know
it was loaded"
ALBANY-Three were killed, and
\ twenty-one injured in holiday auto
D accidents. Forty residents of Cham
plain received ptomaine poisoning
on q church picnic.
ATLANTAs-One dead, one dying,
fourteen injured. -
ST. PAUL-Auto nnishaps and
.drownings took seven lives. A boy
sof fell from the bank of the Cas-
eade river and was carried over the
falls.
Bus hits Tree
BOSTON-Six auto crash deaths
were reported here. Twenty lone
were injured, four seriously, when a
New York-to Boston bus crashed
into a tree.
BUFFALO-Thirteen lives were
snuffed out by auto accidents, fire.
works and drownings.
DETROIT-TWelye deaths in