People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Nine coasters were seriously injured in a collision between a bobsled and a cable car in St. Louis. Mrs. W. S. Tower was killed and thirty persons, including Mrs. Zelda Wallace and Theatrical Manager John W. Norton, were injured by the ditching of a Vandalia train near Coatesville, Ind. A section of the hurricane deck and other.parts of the lost steamer Chicora were found in the ice off Saugatuck. Five men were scalded by the bursting of the valve of a steam pine in a mine at Houghton, Mich. Two will die. l ire in the Hotel Castle, New York, did 8100.000 damage and causeda panic among the 155 guests. American holed, at Elmore, Ohio, and several other buildings were destroyed. Two servant girls were fatally injured. Fire at Pittsburg destroyed the Wilkinsburg Presbyterian church, valued at B’-'5,000. One of the firemen was fa tally frozen. Portions of Alabama were swept by a cyclone, which did great damage. At Albcville a child was killed. At Fennville. Mich., fire destroyed a block- of buildings, including a. newspaper office and a bank. Loss, 830,000. 1-erliliz.er plant of E. Rauh it Sons of Indianapolis was destroyed by an incendiary fire. Loss. 850,000, with no in sura nee. At Franklin Grove, 111., the postoffice and two other buildings were destroyed by fire and other houses Aa ma ged. John Snyder and Bridget Murphy, on their way to church in Coulterville, Pa., were killed by a fast train. At Middleburg, Pa., a sleighing party collided with a train. Two per sons wi re killed and several others injured. Six men were killed, six others badly injured and property worth 8100,000 destroyed by a boiler explosion in a brewery at Mendota, Ilk