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

CASUALTIES.

At SciotoYllle, Ohio, the plant of the Star Brick company burned with a loss of >20,000, no Insurance. Lumber on Churchill Brothers' mill dock at Alpena, Mich., burned, causing a loss of $25,000, one-third insured. At Winamac, Ind., the Halsinger block and contents and Wharton’s art gallery were destroyed by fire; loss, $6,000; insurance, $2,0000. An express train on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad was ditched near Wheeling, W. Va., Sunday. Two persons were killed and more than a score injured. The town of Walcott Mills, Minn., was practically wiped out by fire Sunday. The Sheffield flour mills were destroyed, throwing 100 men out of work and causing a loss of $150,000. Fire at Arcadia, lowa, wiped out the whole town, only two houses being left standing. Chas. H. Hudson, chief of the lost car tracing department of the C. & E. 1., was killed by falling off a train at Carbon, Ind. Statistics setting forth the losses of Gloucester fishing vessels and sailors for the year ending Nov. 1 show that eleven vessels, with a total valuation of $70,000, have been lost, while ninety men have perished. Last year 137 men were lost. Earthquake shocks were felt early Thursday morning in many states of the west and south. The vibrations lasted from forty seconds to more than two minutes. No serious damage to property or life is reported.