People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

The saw and grist mills of Representative Q. W. Perry of Pierpont, Mich,, twenty miles north of Manistee, were consumed by fire. Loss, >IO,OOO. No insurance. Frank Koch was killed instantly in a runaway at Burlington. la. Thomas Spellman, 65, a painter, was fatally injured at Arcola, 111., by a fall froin a scaffold.' . ' ■ ( Charles Meyer, 15. swimming near Akron. 0., dove in shallow water, his head struck a rock, and he was killed. Dennis O'Connor, 21 years of age, married, was Instantly killed at Pueblo, ( Col., by lightning while putting up a pole for electric light wires. A fishing smack on J the way to the grounds went down near Placentia, N. F., with all on board. The names of the lost are: William Bolt, William Bolt, Jr., William Bolt, his nephew, and John Korby. Six firemen were killed and others seriously Injured, and a property loss of over >IOO,OOO. Incurred by a tire at Minneapolis, Minn. At Sheldon, lowa, Frajnk Kilkenny was struck by lightning and killed. His two sisters were injured. Fire at San Francisco destroyed property worth >2.000,000. The blaie at one time threatened to spread to the entire city and was only checked by the most determined work of the San Francisco firemen, aided by brigades from other cities. Louis Blanchard, 16 years; Albert Birkel, 12, and William Birkel, 11 years, were drowned at Seattle, Wash. A freight train was derailed near Aiken, S. C.. and Brakeman Hugh Weatherford, Fireman Cherry, and Albert Brown, a negro, were killed. William Gra unwell, a contractor, fell, from the roof of a building at Gover, Hl., and was instantly killed.