Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-11-01 | Page 1 | Children Are Killed

CHILDREN AREiilLEED Hallowe'en Cost the Lives of Little Ones in New York New York. Nov. 1 Hallowe'en horseplay resulted in the death i f two youthful celebrants lu New York City ye.sterday. A thl.d child was saved 1 lu a t.u-f.t fall by a big rag d:i which .she was carrying while blind-I folded, as a part of a Hallowe'en gamt. .(entile Liss, eight years old. dancing through the streets in a long bridal gown which she wore ks a costume in a Hallowe'en procession, tripped and fell beneath 'he street car. The tdueks passed over her, crushing out her life Wesley Meters, a young Brt-oklyn boy, was pushed by a playmate whom he had lilt with a stockingful of flour and fell In front of a truck. His skull was fractured and he died later in a hospotal. llertha Kalleck. four tears old. was more fortunate, ni.ndfolded she was engaged In a search for a biz rug dc.ll which .had been concealed azalnst the wall ha a prize at o Hallowe'en party. She found the doll, but at the, same time fell throuch an open window win-dow to the pavement, three stories below. The big doll landed beneath her, breaking her fall and sating her life.