Show I Death Toll Climbs k Past 42 Mark During Holidays By Associated Press Pres The nations nation's Labor day wee week weekend weekend end death toll toll swelled revelled by one o othe ot of the worst disasters in American railroad history and a hotel fire fir passed last lut years year's total of 3 35 0 fatalities Traffic drowning drowning- and deaths death and the hotel fire fir accounted for only lives over ove the three-day three holiday but complete complete complete com com- list of those killed in th the wreck of ot the Congressional limited lira lim- at Philadelphia may bring the total above the 1942 figure Seventy were known dead inthe Inthe in inthe the Pennsylvania railroad crash at Philadelphia Three trainmen were dead in the wreck Teck of ot the J New York Centrals Central's Twentieth r Century limited at Canastota N. N Y i The bodies of 49 persons were removed from the ruins of ot a Houston Houston Houston Hous Hous- ton Texas hotel swept by an anI I early morning fire The National Safety council has predicted between and SOO violent deaths this holiday In 1911 there were killed and the year before SU Of the deaths so far fIr recorded excluding the two railroad wrecks and the hotel fire were traffic traffic traffic fic victims and miscellaneous including 25 s. s California had th the highest total to total to to- tal 26 traffic fatalities and 18 i miscellaneous deaths two of ot I which were Ohio and Illinois each had 18 deaths while New York counted 16 Gasoline mileage rationing had only a slight alight effect on the Labor Labor Labor La La- bor day accident front in Salt Lake City according to police poUce reports Tuesday During the Labor day holiday in 1942 when there was no gas rationing Salt Lake police invest investigated t I six accidents in which three persons suffered minor in In- In juries Over Sunday and Monday Moni Mon Mon- i day the day the 1943 Labor day hollI holidays holi holl- I days the days the police pollee again investigated ed only six accidents In which two persons suffered minor hurts Two collision mishaps topped the 1943 holiday accident list An estimated damage resulted when a car owned by Ellis Thomas Thom Thom- as I street glided away from its parking place near Fifth I avenue and I street veered across the street and struck a utility pole It was unoccupied Machines driven by Thomas H. H Clayton 69 1968 Seventh East street and John F. F Boehnke 52 1940 Eighth East street collided at Twenty-first Twenty South and Seventh Seventh Seventh Sev Sev- East streets Monday after after- noon Total damage to both vehicles vel ve ye- l hides was estimated at 75 The Clayton car said police pollee evidently went out of ot control as Mr Clayton Clay Clay- j ton attempted to turn north on Seventh East street sideswiped I a utility pole and struck the the f Boehnke Boehnke c car r as it was being 1 j backed from a driveway |