FOURTH OF JULY CASUALTIES.
The Tribune’s record of Fourth of July casualties gives the number of injured as 2,649; of killed 31, and the total damage done by fire $250,155. Analyzing the table, we find that fireworks were responsible for 731 casualties, skyrockets for 110, cannon for 368; firearms for 546, gunpowder for 422, and runaways caused by explosions of various kinds for 29. In Philadelphia 439 persons were injured and one killed, giving that city the record for injured. The largest number of killed was in Chicago—four—but there the list of injured was comparatively light, the total number being but 111. In New York no one was killed and only 73 injured. The greatest fire loss was in Lee, Illinois, where the damage was estimated at $100,000. Boston lost $10,000 by fire; Dixon, Illinois, $50,000; Kansas City, Missouri, $26,000; Kansas City, Kansas, $2,000; Los Angeles, $18,000; Leadville, $1,500; Milwaukee, $2,000; Mansfield, Ohio, $10,000; New York, $3,000; Providence, $3,000; Rochester, $1,500; St. Louis, $3,000; Syracuse, $3,000; Stockton, California, $1,500; St. Joseph, Missouri, $3,000; Toledo, $2,500; Troy, $2,000, and Wilkes Barre, $2,000. Twenty other towns and cities reported losses of less than $1,000.—Public Opinion.