Show Auto uto Death eat Figures Show ow Killed WASHINGTON Oct 7 AP AP- AP Deaths from automobile accidents In seventy-eight seventy of ot tho principal cities clUes of the United States totaled during the first thirty-six thirty weeks of ot 1926 This Is to an average a I Ithe the tho comm commerce department deportment reported ported r today of more than sixteen deaths a a. day and is equivalent to an annual annual annual an an- nual death rate of ot for tor every persons There was considerable variation from month to month in the number number number num num- ber of fatalities Starting with ih h the tho January period tho the total fell tell fel off oft to a minimum of ot in March larch Increased to 54 for tor tho the four we weeks ks ending June 19 w was s lower ver for tor the next two periods and increased toa to toa toa a maximum of in n the month ending September 11 Jans Kansas s City Kan Ian with an estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated population of ot had the lowest mortality rate per pO population with only one ono fa fatality fatality fa- fa fatality for the tho thirty six weeks or ora ora a d death ath rate rato of ot 12 12 while Indianapolis lis ls had the highest nine fifty fa fatalities fa- fa or a death rate of ot Some of ot the fatalities occurred outside outside out out- side aide the cities' cities corporate limits |