People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

By an explosion of gas in a mine at Pottsville, Pa., six men were killed and five Injured, four fatally. The barkentine Sadie Thompson, bound for Philadelphia with a cargo of sugar valued at SIOO,OOO, was wrecked In the Bahamas. A railroad engineer's disobedience of orders led to a wreck at Gut.hrK. O. T., in which one man was ' filed and a score injured, several serioimF While Eli Seymour and wife »•’ Lewistori, Mich., were at a dance t! eir house took fire and three children were burned to death. W T hile working at a fire in Akron, 0., three firemen were seriously injured by a falling chimney. Five men were seriously injured by the collision of trains in a tunnel ou the Castle Shannon road near Pittsburg George P. Harpole and Casey Gergory of Fairfield, 111., were asphyxiated by gas in a hotel at Springfield. 111. Willinm E. Winans, a feeble-minded man, aged 38 years, wandered away from his home at Olney, 111., and was frozen to death. Eleven miners were seriously injured by an explosion at Odin, 111., over 200 men in the shaft escaping. In the crush to get out of a burning building at Lemont, lowa, two children were seriously injured. Five firemen were killed and seven fatally and nine seriously injured by a falling wall at a Lynn fire.