People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Earthquake ihocxi ware felt early Thursday nemiag ia aumy atatoa es the weet tad south. The vibration* lasted from forty seconds to more than two minutes. No serious damage to property or life is reported. At Wichita, Kan., Maj. John Gorman, an officer in Gen. Frans Sigel’s command, fell from a scaffold of a house and broke his neck. At Early Station, near lowa Falls, lowa, Daniel Gammon, conductor, was fatally injured, and Engineer Fermenter and Fireman Wagner seriously injured in a railroad wreck. D. Blckler, a cattle buyer of Random Lake, Wis., was thrown from a buggy and killed. • August Raevoe, of Boscobel, Wis., was caught in the machinery of a feed mill and fatally injured. Joseph Kellogg fell downstairs at Rockford, 111., and received injuries which will probably prove fatal. A 6-year-old child of George Ramsey, of Coflke county, Tenn., fell into a burning brush heap and was cremated. At Petersburg, Pa., Mrs. Fortesque Whittle, daughter-in-law of the Bishop of Virginia, Lucy Stone, soon to be married, and a negro servant were seriously burned by the blowing up of a gasoline stove. Near Monteville, Mo., 400 acres of timber and 300 acres of corn have burned. At Menominee, Mich., the Columbus house was destroyed by fire. The boarders had a narrow escape. At Miller’s Falls, Mass., fire destroyed O’Keefe’s hotel, the Union Block, Miller’s Falls company’s block, a Congregational church, and Moran’s block. Loss, |60,000. At Columbus, Ga., the girls’ high school and five residences were burned, with a loss of $35,000. An open switch at St, Louis caused a collision between two trains, in which both engineers were killed and a number of passengers injured.