People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Hias Annie Urquhardt, a school teacher, was fatally injured by being thrown from a wagon at Emporia, Kas. Chester Minshall, 11, accidentally shot and killed William Norris, 13, at Vlroqua, Wls. He was playing with a revolver at the time. Homer Thomas of Charleston, W. Va., while visiting friends at Elwood, Ind., was fatally injured in a runaway. The remains of Lewis Blake, who was drowned some time ago, were found in the river at Rockford, 111. The state hospital for isane at Watkins, N. Y., was partly burned. The loss was $7,500, and the excitement among the inmates was intense while the fire raged. The bodies of James Yeager and his two children were taken from the ruins of the Fincel block fire at Louisville, Ky. / Hailstorms in Arkansas and Mississippi damaged growing crops and destroyed considerable farm property. A negro woman named fCauffman was frightened to death. Thirteen men were killed in a mine explosion at Denny, Scotland. F. G. Anderson, 48, was struck l?y lightning and killed instantly at Valley Springs, S. D., and Jacob Howard met a like fate at Luverne, Minn. William Kirt, of HamiPon, Ont., and Charles Witters, a- colored man, were killed, and Alfred Sells, of New York city, was seriously injured at Rockport, 0., by being struck by a train. A hailstorm did great damage in the vicinity of Camden, Ark. Two girls were killed and at least a score of others injured, many of them fatally, in a fire in a Montreal tobacco factory. The little town of Perley. Wis„ was almost destroyed by a fire which originated from flames in the forest. Half a ton of dynamite exploded at Lima, 0., breaking windows for many miles. No lives were lost.