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Show MANY LIVES LOST I (iNioim I Dynamite, Toy Pistols and I Giant Crackers Responsible H for Number of Funerals. H Celebration of Independence Day Brings Sorrow to Many Homes as the Result of Reckless Use of Explosives by Careless People. New York. Whllo tho list of minor fl accidents as a result of tho colebra-j BB tion of the Fourth of July reached far up into tho hundreds, thero wero' fower serious casualties than for many years past. Only ono denth at trlbutable to tho celebration was ro- BH ported by the police, that of Morris Bfl Shapiro, n seltzer water manufac-turer, manufac-turer, who wns shot In tho head by a stray bullet ns ho was driving through IB tho strcot in Harlom. He died coon BB afterward. Tho pollco were unablo to BB. learn from whenco tho bullot enmo. BVJ Thoro wero ten deaths In greater EH Now York from the boat nnd humidity. BBJ Clatskanlo, Ore. F. F. Harding was BB. killed on the 4 th by tho prcmnturo ex- , BBJ plosion of a bomb. Harding had ob- J B talncd a recipe for mnklng smokeless BBJ powder and after plugging a piece ot BBJ Iron plpo two nnd a halt Inches In diameter nnd fourteen Inches long, BH hnd filled the rcceptaclo with his mix- BB turo. He wns In tho act of plugging BbB tho other end of tho plpo when tho BBJ thing oxplodod. Hnrdlng's right arm BbJ was torn off, his leg broken and ho BBJ suffored Internal Injuries from which BBJ he died. Ho wns about 25 years old. BBJ Wllkesbnrro, Pa. At Wannml, n BBJ mining town five miles from horo, flvo BBJ boys were killed and nlno othors In- BJ Jurod in celebrating the Fourth of jXB July. Two of them woro brothers BBJ namod PnshunU, two other brothers BBJ named Shuknwolz and the other BBJ nnmcd Long. They had placod pow-der pow-der In a plpo nnd it failed to go off. . pBJ Thoy then forced a stick of dynnmlto BBJ Into tho plpo nnd began pounding It BBJ A terrific explosion followed. Four of tho boys woro badly mangled, nnd the fifth died on tho way to tho hos- pltnl. Somo of the Injured nro co BBJ badly hurt that they may die. BBJ Oswego, N. Y. Murray ICItts, 14 pH rears old, was accidentally shot and BBJ killed nt Fulton by Frederick Parker, I companion about (ho samo ago - BJ Parker discharged what bo supposod BBJ to bo a blank cartridge from a ro- rolvor. Kltts fell with a bullet In bU BBJ head nnd died almost Immediately. BBJ Parker disappeared. Ho Is a mem- BBJ bor ot a prominent family, ns was BBJ Kltts. BBJ Dos Moines, In. Ono porson was fn- tally Injured and soveral others serl- BBJ ously hurt by tho collapso of tho bal- IBJ cony at Danbury, Woodbury county, BBJ Iowa, during a Fourth of July parado. BBJ Dispatches from vnrlnus towns In thb pBJ itate chronicle tho serious Injury of BBJ soveral persons, tho majority children, BBJ ks tho result of Fourth of July accl- dents. At Waterloo Howard Parry, BBJ aged 1C, nnd Leo Hollar, aged 1C, were BB drowned whllo attempting to swim BBJ across Umlcnn lake. BBJ Elkhnrt, Ind. Hny Drowning, nged Bfl 12 years, died on tho 4th from lock- BB law resulting from n wound cnuscd by BB ia oxploslon of n blank cartridge. Bfl Frank Ilencli lost nn oyo on account Bfl of a giant flrccrnckor. Bfl Indlnunpnlls, Ind. Reports from Bfl throughout tho stato show four fatall- Bfl tics and n largo numbor of persons In- Bfl jured ns tho result of tho celebrntlon Bfl it tho Fourth. Bfl Mllwaukco. Throo deaths are re- Bfl :ordcd in Wisconsin ns n rosult of the i Bfl celebrntlon o. tho Fourth. X Bfl |