Traffic Accidents Take Big Number of Merry-Makers New York. Dee, 2%, Almost 500 persons to-day were feared to have been killed on the United States over the Christmas week-end. Traffic accidents took the but dozens died in suicides, falls, train wrecks and heart atta Latest figure Placed the number dead at 289, but reports were incomplete.
Chicago and Cook County, Ilinois. led the nation with twelve traffic deaths, seven suicides, eight falls and nineteen heart failures, Six men were killed when a car plunged over a 75 foot cliff at Wellsburg, West Virginia, In Ilinois state, 63 deaths oe including 26 traffic fatalities, Pennsylmania was second with 27 de of which twenty were due to traffic. New York reported sixteen deaths of which fourteen were traffic and California thirteen deaths, all traffic, In the South, accidents claimed nineteen lives in Alabama, while fourteen were killed in North Carolina—United Press.
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