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Show 1 Yuletide Deaths Mount to 200 In United States Automobile Accidents Blamed For Heaviest Toll; Slayings Next. (Copyright 1934 by United Press) Holiday traffic, hunting accidents, acci-dents, human violence, airplane crashes and fires took a Christmas Christ-mas Day toll of 253 lives, in the United States and Canada, a country-wide survey disclosed today. Texas led all states with a Christmas death toll of 39. California Cali-fornia reported 32 persons dead; Missouri 26, Oklahoma 21, Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania 15 and New York 14. Several states reported no casualties; casual-ties; others ranged from one to 10. . Automobile accidents claimed the greatest number of victims; 117 men, women and children dying dy-ing of injuries in collisions and other highway, accidents. Fity-l'ive Fity-l'ive died by drowning and in fires. Few were victims of poison liquor. Many Suicides Hunting accidents and homicides homi-cides caused 37 deaths of which Texas reported 11; Alabama 7 and Tennessee 3. Despondency resulting result-ing in suicide on Christmas day took 6 lives in New York and 5 each in Pennsylvania and California. Cali-fornia. Three persons each in Illinois and Louisiana and two in Georgia and Texas died of self-inflicted self-inflicted wounds. Rescuers searching the debris of a Canadian National Railways excursion ex-cursion train, which was struck by a Detroit-Montreal flyer near Dundas, Ont., recovered the bodies of 15 victims. Several persons were missing. States reporting few holiday casualties included Georgia, 7; Florida, 1; South Carolina, 1; Iowa, 2; Indiana, 2; Kansas, 3; Oregon, 2; Maine, 1; Connecticut, 2 ; Massachusetts 4 ; Nevada, 3 ; Colorado, 2 and Louisiana 3, |