Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1915 — Scores Killed in June. [ARTICLE]

Scores Killed in June.

Two hundred and three persons were killed in automobile accidents in the United States in June just ended. Illinois led with 45. More than half the victims were Chicagoans. New York stati was second, with 42. Nearly all the victims were residents of New York City. Pennsylvania was third. Seventeen were run down or tossed to death. Among the killed were two women, eight boys and four girls. Eleven persons were killed in Massachusetts. • , Ten met death in California. Colorado’s toll also was ten. Five perished in Louisana. There was hardly a state in which there were not one or more automobile fatalities. Statistics show that 80 per cent of the accidents were due to speed or carelessness.