Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1908 — CASUALTY LIST OF PAST YEAR [ARTICLE]

CASUALTY LIST OF PAST YEAR

Nearly Fifty-Eight Thousand Persons Killed and Injured by Various Accidents.

New York, Jan. I.—The Tribune, in a summary of the accidents of the year 1907, states that 57,919 persons have been killed and Injured In accidents during the year, 35,612 having been killed and 22,307 injured. Bome of the larger Items of the list are as fol Lows:

F.arthquakes, landslides, etc., 21.512 killed, 3,092 injured: explosions and mine disasters, 3,086 killed, 2,721 Injured; storms and floods, 4,209 killed, 1,563 Injured; railroad wrecks, 811 killed, 2.639 injured; automobile accidents, 229 killed, 701 injured; firearms, 197 killed, 3,978 Injured. Among other deaths are 2,269 lost in wrecks of vessels and 492 In other drownlngs.