Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1902 — Deaths by Violence in Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Deaths by Violence in Indiana.

The reports of the State Board of Health show there were in all 125 deaths by violence in Indiana in November. Of these 9 were males'and females. The suicides numbered 13 and 7 were males and 6 females' The methods of self murder need were: hanging, male 3, females 1; gunshot, males b, oarbolio aoid, females 2; strychnine, females 2, not named 8. The accidental deaths were: Asphyxiation by gas 4: scalds 3; burned to death 16, males 4, females 12; killed by street cars 4; steam railroads, 25. males 23, females 2; crushed by machinery 13; guns and pistols 15, poisons 9; kioked to death by horses 2; fall from bicycle 1; fishbone 1; and fall.