HOLIDAY TRAGEDIES
SIX CHILDREN GASSED
DEADLY MOTOR CRASHES
(Received 2nd January, noon.)
VANCOUVEB, Ist January. Six children are dead at Marysville, Michigan, because Phyllis Macluie, aged four, tried to cook a New. Tear dinner on her mother's gas stove. The mother found the children dead \vhen she returned from her work. Apparently Phyllis turned on the gas and went tc play with her dolls in a corner, where &he was overcome by the fumes. The other children met the same fate as they entered the room one by one. Other holiday tragedies include eight drowned when a motor-car skidded and plunged into the Calumet Biver ati Coopersville, Michigan. Only one pas-; senger escaped, and two families were^ almost wiped out.
~ A motor-car filled with New Year celebrants was speeding along at 70 miles an hour when it crashed head-on into a street car at Los Angeles. Pour persons were killed instantly. An American Airways Company 'plane crashed in a fog at Springfield, Ohio. Five people were killed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1932, Page 10
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