Fourth-of-July Fatalities

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 22, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 30.

Fourth-of-July Fatalities

Fourth-of-July fatalities were apparently not so numerous this year as formerly, and yet a small army of people—the small boy figuring conspicuously—suffered more or less serious injury in the strenuous celebration of the nation's natal day, and not a few were killed. In San Francisco all explosives were prohibited in the business sections, and not a fire occurred. No deaths were reported, and only one boy was seriously injured. In Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco, a mother and babe in arms were killed by an exploding bomb, and half a dozen were injured by fire-crackers and toy cannons.