People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — PERISHED BY FIRE. [ARTICLE]

PERISHED BY FIRE.

Fatalities Reported from Various Points— Senator Daniels* Son Killed. Willmar, Minn., Aug. 7. —The farmhouse of S. O. Ostenson, of the town of Dover, about 2 miles north of here, was burned to the ground at 2 o'clock a. m. Mr. Ostenson and four children lost their lives in the flames. Mrs. Ostenson narrowly escaped cremation, but is crazed over the awful event. Nd one knows how the fire originated, but it is believed lightning was the cause and a fierce wind fanned the flames. Linwood, Ark., Aug. 7. —Peter Williams and his wife left their two children locked in their house while the parents attended church, and upon their return found the house a heap of ashes with the charred remains of the children therein. Mascoutah, 111., Aug. 7. Henry Lutz, a well-known farmer residing near Georgetown, was instantly killed by being caught under a traction en-, : gine, which ran off a bridge and crushed him. Springfield, 111., Aug. 7.—A traction engine belonging to Deinlein Bros., & Hudson fell through a bridge on the Clear Lake road at the crossing of Sugar creek, about 5 miles east, • Monday morning. Th® engineer, Charles E. Hudson aged 27, and William Deinlein- aged 23, one of the crew, wer° instantly killed. The en- I gine f"-’ 1 to the river bed, 20 feet be- ! ] O ”, pinioning both men under the wheels and crushing out their lives. ! Accidental death was the verdict of the coroner's jury. Both men were unmarried. Princeton, 111.. Aug. 7.—Chetis An- ' derson and Oscar Hokenson, sons of 1 farmers, were run down by a freight train of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad Sunday night. Anderson was killed instantly and Hokenson is yet unconscious, with no hopes of his recovery. They’ awaited ! the passing of the east-bound train : and starting across the tracks were struck by a west-bound train. The train did not stop and the remains were found by a tramp, who notified a number of the citizens. The coroner's jury exonerated the railroad company. Lynchburg, Va., Aug. B.—William Patton Daniel, the 8-year-old son of ■ United States Senator John Daniel, was frightfully bruised and fatally injured Sunday afternoon by being ; dragged about suspended from the ; stirrups by a frightened horse.