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Show I'lltllHlMS TOMi IS liAIKIi:. kk (.oi:iinmi:nt iii.po.it At f riling to tho report of thn Unl tul Htutes (ensus bureau for 1916, firearms causi d more deaths In the Pnltitl Ktft.M than railroad nccldents, fln tlniej as mxny a street tnr aid-dents, aid-dents, nta iy ns muii) uh rullioad und street car vicldents inmhlned und more than twice us many as automobile automo-bile accidents. The total number of deaths due to firearms was 79ft, corrcappndlng t an ' a death rate of 11 9 per 100,000 population popu-lation Of these 3601 were suicides, 2815 homicides an-1 I SOI accidental i |