The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-26
STALKS
over zoo MORE
AT YULETlDE
Accident. Murder, Suicide
and Fire Toll Grows
During Holiday
AIR ACCIDENTS ALSO
ACCOUNT FOR OTHERS

(UP).-Canadian National Rail
way officials today sought to de-
termine whether a faulty switch
caused the crack Mapleleaf Filler
to crash into the rear of Christ
mas day excursion train, killing l5
and injuring 80.
Officials pointed out that the
Filler might have approached so
fast that the electrically-operated
switch had not had time to close.
They also pointed out that the
switch possibly was faulty and re-
NAMED partly open after the ex-
cursion train passed. Many OF the
injured are expected to die.
HARVEY, ILL.,, Dec. &c. (UP).
The International Limited, fast
Grand Trunk passenger train,
crashed into an automobile at a
grade crossing today, killing seven
occupants. The victims were bad
ly mangled and included four wo-
men. Three women were decapi-
tated. None of them have as yet
been identified. The automobile
license was traced to John Burke.
Copyright, 1884, by u. p.
Death rode through the holi-
DAYS, leaving. a trail of more than
200 auto fatalities, murders,
shootings, airplane and train trag-
edies, drownings and suicides" a
survey by the United Press re-
vealed Christmas night.
Violence and tragedy marked
Christmas celebration in. at least
29 states. California led the black
parade with 25 deaths. Texas
had "a. Missouri had 81, while a
dozen states marked up 10 or
more.
In some instances the greater
part of families were wiped out.
A woman and two children, re-
turning to Kansas City for Christ
mas with her husband, were killed
on a Nebraska highway.
In Perrysville, Pa, a grief.
stricken woman shot four. and
then killed herself. She had killed
her sister at Dunkirk, N. Y.
An airplane plunged into bleak
waters north of Elko, New, car
rying four to their death. An
other sank at sea off the lower
California coast, two pilots, four
passengers and a child drowning.
California led the nation in
auto fatalities. Deaths on high
ways from Los Angeles to the
northern part of the state totaled
II. Texas marked up Is auto
deaths and there were 88 record
ed throughout the country.
Suicides paid the depression's
grim tribute to Christmas. More
than rs were recorded, the larger
number attributed to despond-
ency. California registered four,
New York five, Illinois three, all
at Chicago and Louisiana three.
Fire claimed it's holiday toll, 90
deaths, including a half dozen
children burned in Christmas tree
blazes. Joplin, Mo-, and Sedalia,
Mo-, burned four each on Christ
mas.
The death list includes in addi-
ton to auto deaths, suicides, fires
and other accidental deaths, two
train deaths, IA air crash dis
asters, including seven by drown
ing, 10 shooting, rs murders, one
poison liquor death, one stabbing,
eight miscellaneous deaths.
There were five killed in shoot
ings in Texas.
Tennessee, Nevada and Missouri
had air crash victims. Five
southern states-South Carolina,
Georgia and Tennessee, Alabama
and Florida-compiled a list of a
dozen murders.
In New York Bedra Delcado, a
23-year-old woman, awoke amid
smoke from a burning Christmas
tree, rushed in panic to the win
dow and jumped from her fourth
story apartment. She was killed
instantly. Fourteen others were
injured. .,
Fatalities were divided as fol.
lows:
Automobile fatalities SO, MUIR
ders Is, suicides "a, fire o.
! drownings IL, shootings 9, air
crash deaths 7. miscellaneous 49,
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