People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Fire destroyed the business portion of St. Kilian, an isolated village sixteen miles north of West Bend, Wis. The loss is $25,000 and insurance $8,500. Spontaneous combustion caused a fire qnd several thousand dollars’ damage at the National Linseed Oil Association mill at Dubuque, lowa. Field and forest fires are doing much damage in many parts of southeastern Michigan, and farmers are engaged night and day in efforts to save their buildings from destruction. Great damage is inevitable, if the protracted drouth in that region should continue. Six men were drowned by the capsizing of a steam yacht during a squall off Buffalo, N. Y. Six men were killed and three fatally injured by an explosion of molten metal at the Carnegie works at Braddock, Pa. Fifteen bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the Gumry house at Denver. Work had to be stopped Tuesday on account of the danger of ihe walls falling. The business district of Connben, Mich., has almost wholly destroyed by fire. The loss is put at $50,000, with little or no insurance. The elevator at Beatrice, Neb., was struck by lightning and destroyed by fire. Loss, $6,000; insurance, $3,500. Sweet’s.hotel at Grand Rapids, Mich., has been damaged $7,500 worth by fire, with $4,000 loss on furniture. Fully insured. Heavy marsh fires are reported in Palmyra, Hebron, and Cold Spring Townships, Michigan. Fires are running under the sod, destroying thousands of acres of meadows. Settlers along Lake Samis, Washington, report there is an unbroken line of forest fires from Belfast to the lake, destroying largo as well as small timber, and rendering the atmoephere almost suffocating. There is much alarm felt throughout the community. The sloop Jumbo sunk at Newburyport, Mass., and Capt. Stephen Orr and George Welch were drowned. A party of Illinois, Michigan and Ohio lumber dealers who arrived at Tacoma, Wash., report an unbroken chain of forest fires from the ltocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Leonard Blessing, a merchant of Clay City, 111., was thrown from liis cart and seriously injured. James Mann, a Western Union messenger boy, was drowned in the Arkansas River at Wichita, Kan., while swimming. Ho was tlie sole support of his mother.