FATAL FIREWORKS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 546, 26 December 1928, Page 9

FATAL FIREWORKS

SEVEN CHILDREN DEAD CHRISTMAS IN THE STATES (Lnitcd l y .A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) ("Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 10.45 a.m. NEW YORK, Tuesday. Seven children were killed as a result of accidents arising from the custom in the Southern States of celebrating Christmas with fireworks. Four youngsters lost their lives at Hazard, Kentucky, when a fire cracker which was tossed in fun landed in a can of blasting powder. There was an explosion and a fire, in which the mother of two of the youngsters was also badly burned. Three children at Cartervillle. Georgia, who were earning Christmas money as temporary clerks in a fireworks store, were burned to death when a Roman candle lit by a customer caused a fire. A fourth person, a young woman of IS. has probably been fatally burned. CRASHED ON TO CONCRETE CLIMBING AFTER CRICKET BALL Reed. 12.52 p.m. SYDNEY, To-day. Tragedy brought a sad Christmas to the Wrighf family, of Marrickville. Leo, aged 11, received a cricket ball from his father as a Christmas present. A few hours later, while playing with some other boys, the ball was hit on to the roof of a factory, and while endeavouring to recover it, Wright crashed through the glass skylight to the concrete floor 30 feet below. Ambulance officers smashed in rite door and found Wright dead. THREE DEAD: 21 HURT CHRISTMAS IN SYDNEY Reed. 12.52 p.m. SYDNEY, To-day. Three dead and 21 injured is the roll of Christmas Day casualties in Sydney and the suburbs. Two of the deaths are the result of motor accidents, the third being that of a man who was run down by a train. One of the injured men had his right eye'torn out when a car crashed into a tram. Several others are in a critical condition.