Show fire claims many victims so remote do most of us regard the life hazard of fire that the following statistical excerpts and comparisons will come as a surprise the calculi alons themselves are based upon in aurance ear bool s vital statistics and the twelfth federal census they are taken from the last general statistical period of twelve months covering life loss by this cause throughout the en tire country during the last census year deaths suiting re from fire reached the un total of 6 or over lives sacrificed pach and every month to the destroying element the pro portion of life loss averages during the period about evenly a little under nine in but showing an in crease from 5 5 in 1890 to that of 8 8 in 1900 in of population the figures for states and cities are respectively illinois chicago of the total indiana indianapolis 14 oi the atal iowa jl reported michigan 25 of the total minnesota minneapolis 14 of the total st louis W ney jersey isea iorli state greater new york ohio cleveland 39 cincinnati 20 pennsylvania scranton 24 1 allegheny 20 philadelphia 49 vieginia Vil ginia 2 wisconsin milwaukee 25 one thousand persons lost their lives through alre than the aholo number of those drowned the figures stand burned alre etc brownf ed 5 railroad accidents killed 6 alre G rheumatism claimed 5 victims fire 6 scarlet fever sacrificed 6 lives alre smallpox of ahlich we hear so much and which aro aises the in tensest administrative agitation its death claim with proof magazine |