People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Killing frosts are reported in fifteen states. Much wheat and corn is being plowed up and the ground replanted. Many persons were seriously injured by a collision of trolley cars at Brooklyn. In a game of ball at English, Ind., Harry Weil was struck on he head with the ball, crushing his skull. A cyclone struck near Luling, Tex., unroofing several houses and killing a small negro boy. Crops in the track of the storm were blown out of the ground. J. S. Sullivan w'as killed in a runaway at Springfield. 111. James Fulton, a farmer, was killed by the kick of a horse at Fairbury, 111. Boyd Lambert, son of I. E. Lambert, member of the Kansas Legislature, accidentally shot and killed himself at Emporia. One man was killed and two injured by the collapse of the walls of a burned building at Chicago. The barkentine Josephine, Capt. McLean, which sailed from Rio Janeiro, April 14. with a $200,000 cargo of coffee for Baltimore, went ashore on Little Island shore, eighteen miles south of Cape Henry. The crew was rescued. The San Juan and Kings rivers in California are overflowing immense areas anil doing much damage.