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INDEX TO DATES OF CURRENT EVENTS, 1912
accidents-adams


Van Buren, O.

Boy, 8, shoots and kills baby sister. Je 9

Venice, Cal.

Kitten brings rescuer to girl hanging on spike. Ag 27

Wabash, Ind.

Dynamite caps in pocket kills boy. Je 24

2 boys smothered under shelled corn. Ag 8

Wallace, Id.

J. R. Adkins crushed to death in machinery of mill. F3

Wantagh, L. I.

Duck-hunter kills friend near. O 12

Washington, D. C.

2 killed, 3 hurt at electric work. Jl 15

Waterbury, Ct.

Man killed by flying splinter. Je 30

West New York, N. J.

Boy falls into tube in lard refinery, dies. Je 14

Westbury, L. I.

See Bacon, Rob.

Wheeling, W. Va.

Platform falls, 30 hurt. Jl 26

Whitesboro, N. Y.

Ensilage cutter beheads H: Wagner, prominent citizen. N 8

Woodside Heights, N. Y.

Miss May Windmüller, daughter of treas. of Title Guarantee & Trust Co., burned to death. Ap 13

Wooster, O.

Woman's hatpin goes through man's nose. D 21

Yoakum, Tex.

Woman's eye shot out in theatre. Je 13

Youngstown, O.

Man killed turning off lights. O 3

Alaska.

Sheep Creek Mt. 3 lost in fog, found dead.

Argentine Republic.

Buenos Ayres. House collapses, over 30 hurt. O 9

Australia.

Baby in carriage blown from steamer, near Hobart. Reported. N 17

S 12

Belgium.

13 killed, 50 hurt, in moving picture theatre panic, Barraques. D 22

Canada.

Toronto. Five-story structure collapses. Number in ruins unknown; 6 dead found. My 4

Yarmouth, N. S. Man accidentally hangs himself. Jl 23

Derrick arm breaks; 3 dead, 2 hurt, Halifax. S 12

France.

Hair of bull's tail snaps off spectator's thumb at Avignon bull fight. Ap 8

Auxerre. Choir boy pulls over heavy font; crushed to death. Ag 23

Germany.

Binz. Landing breaks, 21 drown. Jl 28

Nuremberg. Building collapses; 10 dead, 35 hurt, 5 missing. Ag 2

26 buried in slag cave-in; 15 dead; Dortmund. Ag 13

Baroness von Eckhardstein shot and killed in hunt by kinsman, Berlin. S 1

Great Britain.

London lawyer killed in electric bath. N 5

London. Duc de Lorge falls down elevator shaft, dies. Jl 26

Honolulu.

Baby scalded to death in bath on ship near. Reported. D 16

Italy.

Bride's father killed by fireworks at wedding. Reported. Jl 28

Gun at Alpine fort of Sestrieres falls into valley. Several killed. Ag 2

Prof. Polacchi and wife electrocuted in bed; 7 rescuers shocked, Christi. O 5

Villa near Vercelli collapses at housewarming; 5 dead, 10 hurt. O 28

Philippine Islands.

Cables of steel suspension bridge collapse, killing 10, injuring 10. My 31

Russia.

Stage of Imperial Opera, St. Petersburg, collapses; 20 injured. Ja 17

See also Viasemsky, Prince.

Spain.

Many children and teachers killed by collapse of school. Seville. Ja5

Panic in moving-picture theatre causes 55 deaths. N 24

See also Avalanches; Baseball; Billiards; Blood-poisoning; Bullfights; Damages; Dogs; Drownings; Earthquakes; Explosions; Floods; Football; Golf; Hazing; Horseracing; Hydrophobia; Lightning; Paint; Poisoning; Roller-skating; Runaways; Sleepwalkers; Storms; Telephone; also subhead Accidents under Automobiles; Aviation; Boating; Mines and mining; Motorcycles; Mountain climbing; Parachutes; Railroads; Ships and shipping: Skating; Street railways; Submarines; Subways; Warships.

Achelis, T: Reappraisal doubles estate of N. Y. merchant. Jl 22

Ackermann farm, Mt. Vernon, Ill. Tenth victim of mysterious illness dies. Jl 17

Adams, Ja. N., ex-Mayor of Buffalo, b. 1842.

d. F9

Adams, Mass. See Strikes.

Adams Express Co. Accused of exacting more than published rates; indicted on eleven counts at Cincinnati. F 22