The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-05
STORM RIPS PATH OF ruin
THROUGH CITY; Damage IS
PLACED HIGH IN THOUSANDS
More Than 200 Lives Lost
Throughout Nation in
Holiday Tragedies.
MANY PERSONS DROWN
Terrific Heat and Wave of
Accidents Mark Day of
Celebration.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, July 5.-Fourth Of
July accidents in the United States
claimed 234 lives, a United Press
survey of casualties revealed today.
Driven to bathing beaches and the
open country by the intense heat.
scores Of men, women and children
lost their lives by drowning, the
premature explosion of fireworks.
prostration and in airplane and
traffic accidents.
The totals, as reported by United
Press correspondents throu ghout
the country, show that bathinG ac-
cidents took the greatest toll. There
were 116 drownings.
Traffic accidents claimed seventy
six lives, fireworks, eighteen; pros
trations, twenty, and airplanes, five.
Many Hurt in Crashes
Reports Of persons injured in au-
tomobile accidents indicated the to-
tai for the country would run well
over 1000. -Four hundred persons
were injured in st. Louis alone.
Storms which passed over Iowa
and Nebraska during the day
brought temporary relief in those
States. Communication lines were
torn away by a 6o-mile wind, but
no deaths we're reported.
An airplane pilot and two boy
passengers were killed at Joliet, Ill.
when one wing of the plane crum-
pied during a stunt attempt 1900
feet in the air
Bruce Miller, Detroit racing driver,
was killed at Milwaukee in an In
dependence Day race at the State
Playground when his car overturned.
Most Of the deaths in the New
York region were from drowning,
because there was vicious under
tow at the beaches and heavy
squalls which overturned numerous
small craft.
Heavy New York Toll
Following. causes Of Fourth
deaths:
NEW YORK and Vicinity
Drownings, %; traffic, 3; fireworks,
4; heat, g. (Thirty-six dead)
CHICAGO and Vicinity-Drown-
ings, 9; traffic, /; fireworks, /; heat.
3; plane deaths, 8. Seventeen
dead.
DETROIT-Drownings, 8; trafic.
8; heat, 3. (Fourteen dead)
SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
Drownings, 2; traffic, 2; fireworks.
2. (Six dead)
ST. LOUIS-One death each by
drowning, traffic and fireworks.
(Three dead)
.COLORADO-Drowning 2; traf-
flc, 3. Give dead)
LOS ANGELES-Drownings 3,
traffic, 2. Give dead)
PORTLAND. Ore.-Drownings, 8:
traffic, 3. (Six dead)
SEATTLE-Drowning /; heat, /.
(Two dead)
SALT LAKE-Two traffic deaths.
PITTSBURGH and Vicinity i've
drownings.
FRANKLIN, Pa.-Drowning, /;
fireworks, 2. CThree dead)
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA -
Traffic, 2; heat, l. (Two dead.)
ALBANY--Drowning, /; traflc, 2,
(Three dead)
OHIO-Drownings, s; stabbing, /:
holiday liquor, /; train, /: heat, 8;
traffic, 5. (Fifteen dead.)
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, 2:
traffic, 8; fireworks, 3. eight dead.)
MASSACHUSETTS - Drownings,
IA; traffic, 2; fireworks, 1; heat, /.
eighteen dead)
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Drown-
ings, g.; traffic, 1. Four dead)
MINNESOTA - Drownings, 2:
traffic, 2; plane, l.. Give dead)
WESTERN NEW YORK-Two
traffic deaths.
WISCONSIN-Five auto deaths.
IOWA-Four drownings.
OKLAHOMA - Drownings, 8:
traffic, 8. eleven dead.)
INDIANA-Fifteen dead.
KENTUCKY-Drowning /; traf-
fic. 5. (Six dead)
NEW HAMPSHIRE-One drown
ing.
RHODE ISLAND-One drowning.
ALABANIA-Cne traffic death.
SAN FRANCISCO-Drownings, 2:
traffic, 4.
Texas-Drownings, 5; traffic, 4;
plane, 1.
SOUTHERN LIFORNIA-
Traffic, 4; drownings, 2; fireworks, 1.
MICHIGAN (outside of Detroit)-
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