People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Bernard Rumor, a Mascoutah, HL, farmer, fell from a tree while gathering nuts and was killed. Francis Velveen, a wealthy farmer living near Tarkio, lowa, was thrown from his buggy, breaking his neck. Maud Übelhardt, 4 years of age, was burned to death at Jeffersonville, Ind. The child was playing with matches in the yard. The boilers tn the building occupied by the Detroit Journal exploded At >

o’clock Wednesday morning, completely wrecking the building. Forty people are believed to have lost their lives. Thirty-five bodies had been recovered from the ruins up to Friday morning. John Altmarsh, an engineer, and Andrew Harnick, a fireman, were killed and cremated by a collision between dummy engines in the blast furnaces at Pittsburg, Pa. At West Superior, Wis., Mrs. Dahlberg and two children were helpless in bed when fire broke out in the house. The children were burned to. death, but the neighbors rescued the mother. Mrs. W. B. Mitchell, at Montgomery, Ala., grocery drummer’s wife, while driving with her two infant children, was struck by a runaway vehicle and killed. One of the children was fatally hurt. Charles, the 5-year-old son of Contractor McGowan of Akron, 0., burned to death. His clothes caught fire while playing around a bonfire. Arthur Galveston, of Galveston, Tex., 9 years old, while playing ball with other children, was either pushed or fell beneath a trolley car and was so badly injured that he died in thirty minutes. Fidelle Billivin, a sailor of Dorchester, N. 8., was killed by the cars at Marquette, Mich. Farmer Leonard Schoemaker was blown to pieces while fishing with dynamite at Nash’s Ford, Va. At Decatur, 111., a small blaze in St. Nicholas Hotel caused a wild scare among the guests, but it was quickly extinguished with trivial loss.