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

CASUALTIES.

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. Mrs. Sarah Knight, 65 years old, was killed by a Lake Shore train at Adrain, Mich. 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. At Bowie Station, Md., a collision occurred on the Baltimore & Potomac railroad, in which F. A. Ellis was killed and four others injured. Henry Luecke, Sr., of Holland, Wis., was killed in a runaway accident. Edward Vincent of Weyauwega, Wis., was thrown from a wagon and fatally injured. L. H. Bailey was knocked senseless by a bolting horse at Fort Pierre, S. D., and severely injured. Bailey is Congressman Pickler’s private secretary, Henry Gross died at Sibley, la., from Injuries received in a runaway accident. He was 40 years old and a former resident of Stephenson county, 111. The body of Charles Giles was found in the Superior dry dock. He had evidently fallen from the tug Edward Fiske, on which he was cook, during the night. His skull was fractured. The Aurora, 111., iron works lost its patterns and machine shops, valued at $6,000. A workman dropped a hot casting into a bucket of papering fluid to warm it. At Muncie, Ind., Mock Bros.’ brickyard burned, throwing 100 hands out of work for the time. Loss, $14,000; insurance, $4,000, divided equally between the Wellington and Merchants’ of Indiana. Extra use of natural gas caused the fire. At Hyde Park, near Boston, Mass., an express train crashed into the rear end of a local, completely telescoping it. One man was killed and many fatally hurt. The engineer of the express disregarded signals. At Valley Junction, lowa., a passenger train ran into a switch engine on a side track, and was wrecked. One woman was killed and two men badly hurt.