Evening star., 1932-07-04
DEATH TOLL OF 81
LAID TO HOLIDAY
Scores Injured in Auto, Boat
and Fireworks Accidents
in Many Sections.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GREEN POND. N. j., July 1.-Two
3-year-old boys and !; young servant
girl were drowned in Green Pond Lake
yesterday when a boat III which they
we're riding overturned. Three others
we're saved. The dead are Edward
Cunard, lr.; Lane Richards, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Richards of Trenton.
and Bertha zepha, is, Richards family
employe.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 4 (P.-Ac-
cidental deaths on the Pacific Coast
over the week end, principally drown
ings and automobile fatalities, were
added to by suicides for total ex-
pecter to reach more than 40. At Til
lamook, Greg, search was being made
for the bodies of eight persons be-
lieved to have drowned after boat
they we're in capsized. At least five
were injured by fireworks. Reinhold
Lange, escaping injury in two motor
car collisions, Is in a hospital with
broken leg. Police said Lange, chef,
suffered the fracture In fall from
high fence he was attempting to climb
after abandoning his machine at the
scene of the second crash. They added
that they would charge him with reck-
less driving. More than dozen sui
cides were reported, most of them In
Southern California.
WHITEHALL, N. Y, July 4 P).-A
physician called to the scene Of an au-
tomobile accident yesterday found four
little children, all severely injured,
kneeling in the road beside the body of
their mother, sobbing over and over,
Hail, Mary, full of grace" Will
liam Cronin, %, of Glenn Falls, also
was killed and three others injured
when two cars met with terrific force
between here and Comstock. The
mother was Mrs. Edward Aubin, SO, of
Plattsburgh.
Two Killed by Skid.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, July 4 R.-
Two persons were killed and two in
jured, one of them seriously, in an au-
tomobile accident yesterday near Hard
insburg, Ind, 80 miles from here. All
were from Kirkwood, Ill, a suburb of
st. Louis. The dead were William H.
O'Brien, IA, and his grandson, Leo
Diechmann, jr., 5. Those injured are
Leo Diechmann, ST., 80, fractured skull,
and his wife, Mrs. Catherine Diech-
mann, 81, daughter of O'Brien. The
automobile in which the four we're en-
overturned in a ditch. O'Brien was
killed instantly and the boy died in an
ambulance.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y, July 4
R1.-Three 7-year-old children were
killed yesterday when a truck left the
highway. They were: Charles Robert
Seymour, Marian DAILY and Ruth DAILY,
Marian's cousin. Three other children
were cut and bruised.
SEAFORD, Del, July [P.-Callihan
@. Thompson, 81, of this town, was
found dead in an overturned automobile
near here yesterday by Garfield Moore
of Bethel, Md. Police said wheel
marks indicated the car had skidded
of the highway while rounding a curve
and had overturned.
Boy Fatally Injured.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, July R.-
William Kate, 10, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Burt Kate of Detroit died here of a
fractured skull sustained when the au-
tomobile driven by his father skidded
and overturned on U. S. Highway 81
near New Carlisle, Ind, yesterday The
parents Of the boy are in a serious con-
dition at local hospital. Mrs. Esther
Warren, Al, Of Des Moines, and her
daughter, Mrs. Ruth Parnell, %, Of
Detroit, also were injured.
THAMESVILLE, Ontario, July 4 tP.-
Edward Esenhouse, 35. Of Binghampton,
N. Y, was killed, and Mrs. Julia Jacek
of Johnston City, N. Y, and her 12-year-
old daughter were injured yesterday
when their car collided with one driven
by Roy Bishop Of 3495 Cicotte street,
Detroit. Bishop and his wife and a
party Of passengers escaped with only
shaking up.
MELBOURNE, Ontario, July (P.-
Mrs. Susan Schneider and her son, John
Schneider, jr, were killed Saturday
when their automobile was struck by
Michigan Central train and dragged 200
feet. Their husband and father, John
Schneider, died of his injuries in a
hospital at London, II miles from here.