People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Cy rus Bussey, ex-assistsat secretary of the interior, was run over by a sleigh in Washington and >adly hurt. One fireman was frozen and four oth ers hurt while fighting a blaze at Kansas City. Three may die. Two children of William Cassidy, living near Brazil, Ind., were burned to death, their clothes catching fire at a grate. A Panhandle passenger train was wrecked by a broken rail near Newcomerstown, Ohio. No one was seriously hurt. The fishing schooner Clara F. Friend was destroyed near Liverpool, Nova Scotia, and her crew of fifteen men were drowned. Life savers succeeded in rescuelng two of the crew of the schooner Louis V. Place, ashore at Point of Woods, N. Y. The other seven were drowned or frozen to death. The Crescent tobacco warehouse and a wooden factory were burned at Louisville, Ky. The loss is >175,000. Fifteen firms were burned out by a fre in Ottawa, Kan. The losses will j gate >70,000. > <re destroyed the Syndicate Block r.l Rockford, HL, causing a loss of $50,000. Several firemen were frostbitten. Tidal wave swept the North Atlantic c«ast, carrying away hundreds of houses and causing great loss of life. Two children, while on their way home from school in Oklahoma, were lost In the storm and frozen to death. Residence of Nels Hanson, a settler near Brainerd, Minn., was burned during the parents” absence and two children cremated. Four men digging out a snow-bound train near Lucknow, Pa., were run down and killed by a belated express train. Owing to a blinding snowstorm the engineer of a Grand Trunk train ran into a stalled express near Weston, Injuring many passengers. The after part of a schooner, with the bodies of three men lashed to it, was washed ashore at Vineyard Haven. Mass. Fifty thousand dollars damage was done to the Denison house at Indianapolis. Two men were knocked from a ladder and injured. Thomas Jeffries while returrfing to his home, three miles from Joliet, 111., was frozen to death sitting in his sleigh. Two cigarmakers of Huntington, Ind., started for a sleigh ride and were found sevral hours later fatally frozen. Home for Friendless Women at Cleveland, 0., was destroyed, and many of the inmates had narrow escapes from death. First Baptist church, the finest edifice in Macon City, la,, was destroyed. A fireman fell from the roof and was badly hurt. One man waskilled and a number of others injured by the caving in of a coal bank at Belleville, HL