People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

The steamer State of Missouri struck a rock in the Ohio river and sank. Forty persons were drowned. Myrtle Townsend, Elsie Hughes and George Crossby were drowned while skating near Fort Mad son, lowa. August Beerman of Thorpe, Wis., was beheaded by a train he was endeavoring to board at East Toledo, Ohio. Property worth more than 8500.000 was destroyed by a fire in Macon, Ga. Four firms were burned out. By the explosion of a saw mill boiler near Alto, Texas, four men were killed and several others injured. Two boys, 14 years of age, who ran away from St. Vincent’s Industrial school of Utica, N. Y., were found frozen to death.