Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
Fatalities Show Drop of 46
Compared With 1e2s-Capi-
tai Has No Deaths.
TEN DIE IN MICHIGAN
AT ONE BATHING BEACH
snowstorm at Speculator, N. Y,
Contrasts With Last Years Heat.
Motorists Blinded.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
America surrendered 159 lives to the
observance of its 153d birthday ami
versary yesterday.
Washington. however, had no fatali-
ties in connection with its celebration
program.
The Fourth of July death list this
year, according to Associated Press dis
patches, was 46 under 1928, the reduction
being attributable chiefly to the de-
crease in the number of deaths from
drowning and from the heat. In only
one division did the 1929 fatalities ex-
ceed last years and that was in auto
mobile accidents, with 70 this year as
compared with 81 last.
Fireworks in themselves continued to
play smaller part in the Nations In
dependence day death roll. Only seven
fatalities from this cause were reported
this year, as compared with IL in 1928,
and two of them resulted from a fire.
works factory explosion and fire July 3.
Drownings Biggest Toll.
largest loss of life, as they were last
ear: but even so, there were IS less
--cGths from this cause than a year ago.
Automobile fatalities, on the other
hand, bounded upward from 81 last
year to 70.
Nearly one-third of the country's
total toll was taken by the Middle West.
The Middle Atlantic States, which last
year led the country in deaths with 68,
had 80 less yesterday, although more
than half the deaths from fireworks in
the country occurred in that section.
The Northwest and Mountain States
had the smallest death lists, each Sec
tion reporting three.
Temperatures generally were lower
throughout the country yesterday than
was the case July 4, 1928, when II
deaths resulted from heat alone. So
far as reports to the Associated Press
showed, there was only one death yes
terday from heat, and that was in
Chicago.
Two Plane Crash Deaths,
Last year airplane accidents took four
lives, whereas yesterday two deaths oc-
CURED from this cause.E@A year ago, too,
there were three deaths in automobile
races. The only death from that cause
reported this year was at Pompano, Fla.
Id
crossed the finish line in third place Of
a 10-mile dirt-track race.
Stricter laws regulating the sale and
use of fireworks was credited with keep
ing the number Of deaths and injuries
from this cause down. In Michigan,
particularly, enforcement of a new State
fireworks law was reported as most ef-
iective.
Chicago ordinances prevent the sale
Of fireworks, but convenient suburbs
provided all types of cannon crackers,
with the result that the Fourth here was
unusually noisy. Hundreds of persons
we're injured, but no deaths occurred.
In New York, 500 children were treat
ed at city hospitals for fireworks in
juries.
Contrasting with the 1928 heat was
l0-minute snowstorm yesterday at Spec
ulator, N. Y, the snow falling so fast
that holiday motorists, blinded, stop
ped their cars to avoid collisions. It was
the coldest July the Adirondacks courl-
try has experienced in years, the tenn
perature being down to so degrees.
Ten Drown at One Beach.
The largest number OF deaths report
ed from one place was at the munich
pal bathing beach at Grand Haven,
Mich, where 10 persons were drowned
in an undertow.
The holiday fatalities, tabulated by
sections of the country in which they
occurred, follow: