People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Steamer Spokane, running on Lake Kostenal, was burned while making a trip. Passengers were panic striken, but no one was hurt. Three men were killed, one fatally and ten seriously injured, and property worth SIOO,OOO destroyed by the burning of the Wabash roundhouse at Toledo, Ohio. Several persons were drowned and great damage done to property in Alabama by the recent violent wind and rain storms. Jacob Huber, a prominent merchant of Indianapolis, Ind., was killed by falling under an electric trailer car. Mrs. Frank Sumner and Miss Nellie Closson were fatally burned by an explosion of gasoline In a St. Pau) house. Building at Cleveland, Ohio, occuPied by the World and the Kellogg company, was burned. Loss, $l5O 000. Property valued at $20,000, including a Homing and lumber yard, was destroyed by fire at Litchfield, Minn. Holmes county (Ohio) infirmary was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $2. - 000. All the inmates were rescued unhurt Storage warehouse elevator of Hugh Rogers & Co., of St. Louis, was burned with the contents. The loss Is $200,000. Three-masted schooner Zlmri S. Wallingford, loaded with lumber, was burned off the Delaware breakwater at Philadelphia. An early morning fire damaged three manufacturing concerns in Milwaukee to the extent of I4U.UUO. fudy insured.