Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1907 — DEATH BY VIOLENCE IN INDIANA IN AUGUST. [ARTICLE]

DEATH BY VIOLENCE IN INDIANA IN AUGUST.

The deaths each month which occur by violence in Indiana, present an interesting study. The total numbesof violence deaths in 1906 was 2210, an average of 184 per month. In August of this year, the violence death numbered 186, males 151, females 35. The murders numbered 11, 2 of them being females and 9 males. The suicides numbered 17, males 18, females 4, The accidents numbered 156, males 129 and females 29. Of the accident deaths 47 were caused by steam railroads; 6 by street cars and interurbans; 15 by crushing injuries and fractures; 16 by burns and scalds; 1 by 21 by drowning; electricity, 5; lightning 1; concussion of brain, 2; machinery 2; falls 22; asphyxiation and suffocation 4; carbolic acid 2; other poisons 2; mining 3; horses and vehicles 4; gored by bull 1; sunstroke 3; not named 2. The methods of suicide are interesting. Gunshot was adopted by 6 males and 1 female, banging by 1 male, drowning by 2 males, carbolic acid by 1 male and 2 females. i Arsenic by 3 males and 1 female. It is also of especial interest to note that 47 people were killed in Indiana in one month by railroads. How many were maimed has not been reported. This is a greater casuality list from railroads alone, than occurs in Germany in a population of forty million in one year. This is sufficient evidence that our railroads are careless and the people indifferent, and yet all the time claiming to put the grefttest value upon human life. There certainly is no need of this monthly slaughter by the railroads.