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Show Five Picnickers Killed and Three Injured, One Fatally, When Pennsylvania Train Crashes Into Wagon. P U I LA D IS Li PI 1 1 A , July 4. Death and injury ended the Fourth's celebration celebra-tion at Quakcrtown, near here, tonightj when the. Scranton Flyer of tho Philadelphia Phila-delphia & Reading railroad crashed into in-to a wagon, killing five persons and severely injuring the other throe member? mem-ber? of the party. The Dead. MBS. JENNIE OOSTELLO, 54 years old. EDWIN KANE, .1 years old. KATHERINE COSTELLO, 10 years old. JAMBS GILLY, 50 years old. JAMES HANNIGAN, 5-1 years old. The Injured. Francis Oostollo, 11 years old; frac-turod frac-turod skull and internal injuries. Edward Costollo, 4 years old; bruisal about tho body nnd possible internal injuries. Frederick Costello, 11. years old; bruises nnd possible fracture of the skull. Mrs. Costello and tho children arc all from Philadelphia and the two men who are dead arc from Shell, near Quakertown. The party was returning in a wagon driven by Harry Young, a farm hand, from Iicllcrtown, whoro they had attended at-tended a Fourth of July celebration. When news of the accident reached Quakertown, two automobiles were rushed to tho scone. The dead and injured in-jured were found buried beneath tho ruins of tho wrocked wagon. Twenty-nine Injured. ST. LOUIS, July 4. Twenty-five fires and tho injury of twenty-nino persons marred the celebration of Independence Inde-pendence day here, in spite of elaborate plans for a "sane and safe Fourth." This record exceeds that of the two preceding years. Twelvo of tho injured aro in a serious seri-ous condition. One' man lost tho sight of an eye when struck by the fragment of a bottle in which a cannon cracker had been placed. The fires did a total to-tal damage of about $200,000, and it is ostimated that half a million dollars' worth of fireworks wore used during tho day. Negro Slays Boy. NEWPORT, K. I., July 4. Ten thousand thou-sand people, men and women, witnessed a riot on Newport Beach tonight, when a negro, fleeing from a sailor ho had stabbed in the back, shot and killed a 14-ycar-old boy. For nearly an hour the police reserves re-serves battled desperately with the mob, which was determined to get possession pos-session of tho negro. Only by carrying carry-ing him into tho surf and holding him in tho water up to his neck, beyond the roach of tho crowd, did the police succeed suc-ceed in retaining him. Three Drowned. LA OfiOSSE, Wis., July 4. The ALis-EJSSiM)i ALis-EJSSiM)i river claimed three lives tonight, to-night, when a frail skiff in which four young persons, all aged 19 rears, were riding, capsized in the high waves caused by the motor boats speeding in the annual races here of the La Crosse Motor Boat club. The dead arc: Myrtle Filers, Elizabeth Tlbich and William Zcnkor, all of La Crosse. Ler-ton Ler-ton Gauss, tho other occupant of tho boat, was saved. The bodies have not been recovered. |