People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Twenty diggers in the Sultana mine In Manitoba were suffocated. An accident shut off their air supply. Fire, started by an Incendiary, destroyed the court house and a business block at Murfreesboro, Ark., causing a loss of 116,000. Holating house of the Old Abe mine at White Oak, N. M., was destroyed. Imprisoning eight men. who, It Is feared, have been suffocated. At Bt. Joseph, Mo., while returning from church, Mrs. Thomas Allen was instantly killed at a grade crossing. Two girls with her were fatally Injured. Two men were recently killed at the spot. Mi-s. Ellen Leyden, aged 26. was fatally burned while beating a cup of alcohol at a neighbor’s house In East Liverpool, Ohio. An express train ran Into an open switch at Scotland, Ga., a woman and her child being killed and five persons injured, Including Roland Reed, the actor. The steamboat Longfellow ran Into a railroad bridge at Cincinnati and sank. Twelve of those on board were drowned. A cyclone passed over the northern port of Georgia. Great damage was done In the vicinity of Cedartown. Two boys at Los Angeles were polsond, one of them fatally, by cakes containing strychnine, given by a neighbor. Three members of the Detroit fire department, while responding t<> an alarm, were run down und Injured >y a train.