People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Henry Eitterin was struck by a gravel train in the Irvington pit, near Algona, lowa. He died of his injuries. He lived at Eagle Grove. John Spencer was caught in the shafting at the Cedar Rapids, lowa, oatmeal mill and whirled to death. H. B. Brooks was fatally injured near Republic, 0.. by a stick of wood thrown by a buzz saw. His face and head were horribly mangled. S. J. Alderson, one of the leading grain dealers of Webster City, lowa, was killed at one of his elevators at Williams, lowa, by the falling of a shaft attached to the engine of the elevator. Death was instantaneous. While Dr. S. W. Edwins and Miss Maggie Amelius were crossing the Lake Erie & Western tracks in a buggy at Elwood. Ind., they were run down by a passenger train. Dr. Edwins was fatally injured and the woman was terribly bruised. Dr. Edwins is a prominent democrat, ex-member of the legislature and one of the best known physicians in eastern Indiana. Fire destroyed the valuable cargo of the steamer Bawnmore, which went ashore on the Oregon coast Wednesday last. Frank Donahue, a farmer, was killed by a Milwaukee train at Clinton, lowa. Charles Fleck was fatally injured by a Northwestern train at Jefferson, lowa. William Wosley was killed while hunting at Logansport by the accidental discharge of his gun. While playing with matches at Union City, Ind., the 3-year-old son of Mrs. Stella Gard was burned to death. A 3-year-old child of Ben Hill was crushed to death at Washington, lowa, by a pile of bridge ties falling on it. Engineer John Rosser of the Chicago Great Western Railway was killed at Dubuque, while attempting to board a street car. An excursion train on the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad was derailed by a tree, the engineer being seriously injured. L. P. Peck’s trunk factory was burned at San Antonio, Texas. Loss, 560,000. The wholesale clothing store of Shell, Rosenbaum & Stcefel was burned at Rochester. Loss, SIOO,OOO.