CHRISTMAS CASUALTIES

Waipawa Mail, Volume L, Issue 43, 28 December 1928, Page 3

CHRISTMAS CASUALTIES

SYDNEY S TOLL THREE DEAD, MANY INJURED. (Australian and N Z. Press Assn.) SYDNEY, December 20. Three dead and twenty-five injured is the roll of Christmas Day casualties in Sydney and 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 bis right eye torn out when a car crashed into a tram, several others being in a critical condition. Tragedy brought a sad Christmas to the Wright family, of Merriekville. Leo. aged eleven, received a cricket hall from his father as a Christmas present. A few hours later, while playing with other hoys, the hall was hit on to the roof of a factory. and while endeavoring to recover it Wright ernshed through a glass skvlight to a conerete floor thirty feet below. Ambulnnee officers smashed in the door and found Wright dead. FIREWORKS EXPLOSION. SEVEN CHILDREN KILLED. NEW YORK. Deecmber 25. Seven children were killed as a result of accidents arising from a custom in the southern States of celebrating Christmas with fireworks. Four youngsters lost their lives in Kentucky when a fire cracker tossed in fun landed in a ran of blasting powder. There was an explosion and fire, in which the mother of two of the youngsters was also badlv burned. Three children at Oarterville. Georgia, earning Christmas money ns temporary clerks in a fireworks store, were burned to death when a Roman candle lit by a customer caused a fire and explosion. A fourth person, a voung woman of eighteen, was badlv burned and her injuries will probably prove fatal. POISON LTQUOR. CAUSES SIX DEATHS. NEW YORK. December 25. As a result of Christmas celebrations six died of poison lirpior and several cases are reported to be critical. A total of fifty-eight drinkers were taken to hospitals, a number of whom are suffering from delirium tremens. Several women are among those poisoned.