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A STARTLING RECORD

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 15, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 3.

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A STARTLING RECORD

By A. E. Scofield

A. E. SCOFIELD
(Battle Creek, Mich.)
THE following is gathered from dispatches and local items in one small Battle Creek daily paper during the month of December, 1900; and by glancing at the State and Chicago papers, I find that the figures could have been doubled:— Number of persons killed by the cars, 32; by firearms, 23; by accident, 66; in a row, 4; in the mines, 5; from football, 1; by drowning, 260; by suicide, 24; by murder, 288; by boiler explosions, 19; by powder explosions, 2; by lynching, 4; by poison, 8; number beheaded, 21; number burned to death, 52.