People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

| Property valued at upward of J200.1X-0 was destroyed by Saturday’s fire at Sallna, Kan. | A million dollars’ damage was caused i by the fire which originated in Simpj Sun ’ s dry goods store in Toronto. Fire partly destroyed the Hotel Boyer at Pittsburg. Twenty of*the employes i a narrow escape from cremation. Two men were killed and two injured y the explosion of a tank of sulphuric acid at McKeesport, Pa. The British steamer Venetian, which I struck on a ledge in Boston Harbor, is i a w reck. Two of her crew were badly scalded by escaping steam. John Williams of Franklin. Vfash., i while engaged in a friendly wrestling i , u * f received injuries ' causing his death. hive persons were badly injured in a i collision between Sixth avenue elevated tiajns in New York, due to carelessj ness. Two buildings in New York city fell, , causing the death of four men. Twenty- : one other employes were seriously inI jured. , Investigation of the wreck on the in- ! teroceanic railroad, near the City of i Mexico, shows that 104 persons were i killed. | Homer Hinshaw, aged 14, was killed I a gun while playing with Robert j Holaday. a boy friend, at Wilmington, i Ohio. i Thomas Meadows and his wife ■ ot Glennville, Ala., were attending a dance their four children were burned j to death.