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Show I NoteJ Railway ' Mam Who Was Killed in Wreck J. T HABAHAN. imUB MET OF VfOLENT DEATHS Aboui Six Persons in 100,000 in Lhe United States Were Murdered in 1CM). SOME CENSUS FIGURES Great Slaughter on Railroads, Street Car Systems and by Automobiles. WASHINGTON, ilan 21 . - Aii-mt six persons in every I Of .MOO n Hm United States were liitinleretf In lOlo. This .slatemcul i- made: by Dr. '. M. Ti'ik-buiii, Ti'ik-buiii, Btatlstlclan of itai etatlatlca ot Hi.- census bureau He attributes to homicidal causes ;jo)9 of the 4s.;ot deaths from Violence of that year. This is :U lhe rate pf 5.9 per I00,i"0, a? against .".C in 1009; b. 1 in I90S and f.8 in mo:. Violent deaths resulted to 5-. 3 persons out of evei'y 100,000 In JOln, and In 1009 only $." In the same number met death in the same manner EtaQroads killed the gieatrst number and TS77 deaths are reported from that source. Tills is an Itucsreaae i. in every 100.000 population over 13-1 In 1901. Vccldental drowning took the nest largest larg-est number, IMS having met death in this maunci IMames brought death to 11'.' and 2484 were sacrificed in the mines and ojuarrjes, The street ear systems claimed 1495 victims' and deleterious sases i l: 7 ' . tiie smallest rate Blnce 1906. Automobiles killed 988 persons, i 8 lo every 100000 Inhabitants Tliirty-jcight persons starved to death during the year; excessive cold hilled :'..) and tliel rieat Si';. Pennsylvania had the laigeat number of violent d oaths, tn 1910, and Colorado tin- highest rate Now york was second, in iti"s of IDO.OOO population lhe number num-ber nf violent deaths in part follows: Los Angeles, 28; Oakland, 135; t?an iYan-ds:o. :;:i9: penver, ITS: Washington. I. .. 281; Chicago, ZQ94; Kansas City, M.. 809; St. Louis, 604; New Jfork, "TaS in i?in and 8430 in 1909; Portland, oir. ik;. Philadelphia, 1299; i- attie. ; Spokane, Spo-kane, no. |