People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Fire in lumber yard* at Fond du Lae, Wia., burned for five hours and caused a loss of over >200,000. The splendid stable at Shadow Brook near Lenox, Mass., owned by Anson Phelps Stokes of New York, was destroyed by fire. Loss, >15,000; fully ’nsured. Fifteen houses have been destroyed by fire in t»e village of Emmingen, Baden. Mrs. J. Meacham was instantly killed at Redfield, lowa, by being thrown from a buggy during a runaway. Andy King, a prominent miner, was fatally crushed by a heavy fall of slate in the Ermit mine near Brazil, Ind. At Ogontz, Pa., Mrs. Moorehead, wife of the superintendent of the Northwood cemetery, Oakland station, and her daughter were killed by a train. At Charleston, W. Va., Mrs. M. M. Thompson, secretary of the State Historical Antiquarian Society, fell down the elevator shaft in the capitol and was killed. George Francisco, bicyclist, collided with a horse and buggy at Constantine, Mich., and received severe injuries. He will recover. William Waldenmeyer of Portage, Wis., a brakeman on the St. Paul road, fell between the cars and was killed at Round Bluff. His body was horribly mangled. Dave Burnett, a farmer living near Owensboro, Ky., fired a load out of an old shot-gun and fatally shot his two children, 3 and 5 years old, who were near by in a cornfield. Charles Benson of Washington Island was sighted clinging to a capsized skiff off the island nearly unconscious by Captain Loftus of the steamer Manhattan. Captain Loftus rescued the nearly drowned man and he was taken back to Washington island. Fire at Indianapolis Wednesday destroyed property valued at >500,000. It is believed to have been of incendiary origin. Losses amounting to a quarter of a million dollars was destroyed by a fire at Oshkosh, Wis. One man was killed and three badly hurt.