Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-07-05 | Page 1 | Holiday Deaths Reach 318

Holiday Deat Deaths Reach By Associated Press PressA A rising holiday death toll toB was reported across the nation Saturday Satur Satur- day second day of a three-day three Fourth of July week end At least lives were cut short I by accidents with deaths attributed attributed at at- tr buted to traffic There was one bright spot spot only only four deaths resulted from fire fire- works One occurred in Missouri in n Tennessee a ye 10 year old old r-old boy died of burns after a firecracker was thrown into a large container of fireworks Police sought an older boy in the death In Pennsylvania a celebrant was killed when a dynamite dynamite dynamite dy dy- dy- dy cap exploded Despite a rainy Fourth which curtailed holiday traffic in the east Pennsylvania led the nation in traffic deaths with 20 Ohio and New Mew York each each- reported 17 and California 16 Worst single tragedy was an au au- au- au train crash at the Long Island railroads railroad's Mattituck N. N Y grade crossing Friday night when six automobile occupants were I killed and a seventh was injured I fr critically