People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

An open switch at St. Louis caused a collision between two trains, in which both engineers were killed and a number of passengers Injured. The Lagonda hotel, at Springfield, Ohio, took fire and was destroyed. The guests escaped, but the blaze spread so fast that aid had to be obtained from Dayton. The loss is heavy. The Canadian steamer Tecumseh had a narrow escape from being burned at Ashtabula, Ohio. The department, after working two hours, succeeded in putting out the fire of mysterious origin. The cabins are gutted and the crew lost all their clothing. The engine house and wooden structures at the E. G. Krause coal mine at Massillon, 0., were totally destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $lO,000. A fierce fire raged in the corn fields and grass about two miles east of Hardin, Mo. The section is principally covered with prairie grass, which is cut for hay. No houses were burned. At Rockford, 111., John R. Porter, a well known merchant, fell from the third story of his store and was instantly killed. At Cudahy, Wis., Andreas Bower and an unknown woman while stepping upon a train were caught by a switch engine on another track and crushed to death. The 2-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. John Humphrey of Anderson, Ind., was fatally scalded by boiling coffee. William Brinkman, a miner living at Auburn, 111., was fatally injured while attempting to board a moving train. Isaac Jones, a switch tender for the Grand Trunk at Granger, Ind., stumbled and fell, causing his revolver to explode. The bullet struck him in the knee, inflicting a serious wound. The walls of a bicycle factory at Clyde, Ohio, collapsed Friday, burying a dozen workmen, three of whom will die from injuries received. Mrs. Sarah Knight, 65 years old, was killed by a Lake Shore train at Adrain, Mich. Henry Luecke, Sr., of Holland, Wis., was killed in a runaway accident.