CHAPTER OF TRAGEDIES IN U.S.A.

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6747, 4 January 1932, Page 7

CHAPTER OF TRAGEDIES IN U.S.A.

Children Succumb To Gas Fumes CAR FINISHES IN RIVER ANOTHER WHIZZES INTO TRAM. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. VANCOUVER, Jan. 1. Six children are dead 'at Marysville, MfiUhigan, because Phyllis Maclure, aged four, tried to cook a- New Year dinner on her mother’s gas stove. The mother found the children dead when sho returned home from work. Apparently Phyllis turned on the gas and went to play with her dolls iu a corner, where she was overcome by tlie fumes. Tho other children met the same fate as they entered the room one by one. . Other holiday tragedies included eight drowned when a motor skidded and plunged into the Calumet River at Coopcrsville, Michigan, only one escaping. Two families were almost wiped out. A motor filled with New Year celebrants was speeding at 70 miles an hour, when it crashed bcad-on into a street car, in Los Angeles. Pour persons were killed instantly. An American Airways Company plane crashed in a fog at Springfield, Ohio, and five wero killed.

America’s Small Holiday Death Roll

Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Preliminary reports indicate that over sixty persons wero killed during the New Year celebrations in the United States and hundreds injured added to whom wero eleven suicides. Automobiles were tho chief cause of both accidentand deaths with alcoholism a close second. Among other causes were stray bullets from arms fired by celebrants and fights. New York City reported only one alcoholic death and only 20 cases of alcoholism against 75 last year.