Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1914 — A Ghastly Record Indeed. [ARTICLE]

A Ghastly Record Indeed.

Lake county, or the Calumet region thereof, had 313 violent deaths during the year 1913, or deaths, rather, that were investigated by the coroner. This was an increase of 51 over the previous year. Of this number 14 were murders: 21 suicides; unknown causes. 5: auro killings, 6; drownings, 31; steam railway killing, 48; interurban killings, 2; other causes in which the verdict was natural death, 113; mills and factories, 73. This is an average of one for each working day in the year, and is surely a ghastly list.