New Britain herald., 1927-07-05
Five Fatalities in State Due to Autos, Two Drownings, Two Sui- cides and One Shore Resort Accident.
Metropolitan New York Area Leads Nation in Violent Deaths During the Three Day Holiday.

New Haven. July JPI Con- necticut today added up it's holiday weekend casualty list to lind that ten persons had met death by mis. chance in the three days of cele- brating the Fourth. Five of the fatalities were due to the automo- bile; two were drowuings: two vera suicides and the tenth followed an accident at shore resort. Two persons died suddenly fol- lowing heart attacks, one following an argument with q brother, and the other while pitching hay.
 Others Critically Hurt In addition to the dead several persons remained in hospitals to- day in critical condition suffering injuries received in automobile &C., cidents. a stabbing and a quarrel over the method of celebrating the Fourth. There were also innumer- able persons who received minor injuries mostly as the result of handling fireworks and automobile accidents.
 Bonfires and small fires caused by fireworks kept fire companies
 busy during the weekend. There were no serious fires reported. Traffic Was Heavy Because of the fine weather for the three days. especially yesterday,
 traffic on railroads, trolley lines and highways was unusually large. The
 number of fatal automobile acci- | dents in proportion to the density
 of highway traffic was small ac- cording to authorities who pointsl ! out that two crashes resulting in three deaths occurred late at night when the traffic had become lighter.
 Fatal Auto Crashes Three of five deaths from auto mobile accidents occurred Sunday and two yesterday. Alphonso La varnto and Salvatore Cupo of New Haven were mortally injured in Westport Sunday morning when their car was in collision with an- other automobile. Mrs. Francis c. Callahan of Brooklyn, N. T.. died Sunday night as result of injuries received when the car in which she was riding with her husband skid- ded on the wet pavement of the Southbury Woodbury highway and crashed into a tree
 
 killed in a West Haven automobile crash yesterday which sent Thomas
 Mahan to the hospital with a frac- tured skull.
 The fifth death due to the auto- mobile occurred last night when a ] 0 year Henry Barker of Shelton was
 run down and killed by an automo- bile operated by K. W. Ziegler oe Huntington. Double Drowning The double drowning occurred at Crystal lake. Stafford Springs, yes- tcrday afternoon. Ises Farkoho, IT, and his sister Olga. IS, children of Rev. and Mrs. Fred Farkoho of Stafford Springs. were the victims
 when the boat which also contained their sister Azezie, 4 and a cousin, George Shahood. 19 overturned. The latter two were rescued by two men and the girl was taken 10 the hos
 pital for treatment. Mrs. Clarence Baldwin. 6n of Bethel, took her own life Saturday by hanging. Sunday Frank Yilek, c..
 been in poor health ended it all" by shooting himself.
 Other Sudden Deaths
 John Maniero. IT year old boat man at Island Beach, Greenwich died of injuries. Sunday. he had re- ceived when he slipped on a ladder at the beach pier and fell. breaking his neck.
 While pitching hay on his farm at Cheshire yesterday afternoon John Hotchkiss. 4 died suddenly In New Britain Sunday Otto Dickman died following a heart attack after quarrel with a brother who was eN- onerated by police.
 Four firemen were injured one | a''IlOlSlS. III NC" IldNtll tSuHldS when their truck was hit by speed- ing automobile. The Norwalk hos pital received six persons early Sum- day night following collision of two automobiles.
 Four men were under arrest in New Britain as a result of the stab bing early yesterday morning of John Ziemka. 32, who was taken to the New Britain hospital In an un- conscious condition. Details of the affray were lacking.
 John Schofield of New Haven pro- testing the method being used by John R. Worrell to celebrate the fourth was knocked unconscious by the latter by blow on the head
 from a heavy long barreled revolver
 Of Civil War date. Schofeld was in
 Grace hospital today.
 By the United Press.
 More than 200 persons lost their lives in the nations three-day cele-
 bration of the 15lst anniversary ot