CHRISTMAS FATALITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19217, 5 January 1926, Page 9

CHRISTMAS FATALITIES.

AMERICA S DEATH • ROLL. HUNDRED LIVES LOST. NEW YORK, Dec. 2f>. A hundred sudden deaths occurred in the chief American cities during Christmas, which was one of the coldest ever reoorded throughout the Eastern and Middle States. Five aged "men were found frozen to death in different parts of Chicago today. Sixty lost their lives in motor accidents, and a dozen died through drinking bad liquor. Thero wero fewer Christmas tree fires I than were recorded lor the past 20 yoars. u toecause of the substitution of electric i toclbs for the old-fashioned candles. GLASGOW GIRL KILLED. TOBOGGAN STRIKES COAL POST. i j LONDON, Dec. 27. A girl, Isabella Kerr, aged 13 years, was riding on a toboggan in Queen's Park, Glasgow, when she crashed into a goal-post, and was killed. The toboggan was her Christmas present. A Paris message states that a young man, in' evening dress, after boisterously participating in the Christmas festivities at a night club, called a taxi-cab and was driven to a river bridge. Thero lie paid his faro, shook hands with the driver, and leaped into the Seine. ACROBATS' FATAL TURN. TRAGEDY IN BRUSSELS. LONDON. Dec. 27. Two German acrobats, who wero performing a "death jump" in a Brussels show, missed the trapeze, and fell among the spectators. Both tho acrobats wero killed, while many of the spectators wero injured.