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Show Deaths by Violence Increase m Salt Lake . SALT LAKE, Dec. 31. Ninety-six deaths from violence occurred in Salt Lako during the year, according to a report by tho bureau of vital statistics of the city health department to Chief of Police J. Parley White. This number num-ber is nineteen more than occurred during 1918, when seventy-seven cases wero recorded. Suicides numbered fourteen during the year. Twelve died from injuries received In automobile accidents. Deaths caused by auto accidents decreased de-creased last year, twenty having been reported during 191S. Nine deaths from homicide occurred this year, as compared with five during 191S. Railroad Rail-road accidents resulted in the death in Salt Lake of nine persons during 1919. The same number were recorded record-ed in 191S. One person was killed in Salt Lake In street car accidents during dur-ing tho past year, as compared with threo in 1918. Unclassified accidents, such as acci- dents in machine shops, mines, granite works and cement works, resulted in the majority of violent deaths during the last year. The report showed that 52 deaths occurred from these acci-dents acci-dents In 1919, as compared with 33 In 191S. Many of the unclassified ac cidents occurred elsewhere and the jH victims died in Salt Lake. Of the 776 automobiles reported stolen in the city since January 1, 1919, only eighteen have not been recovered, according to Chief of Police Whjte. Eighteen machines reported stolen to the Salt Lake police department from outside cities and states have been re- . covered by the local department. Chief White expressed the belief that most of the machines stolen were taken by juveniles for joy riding. oo |