People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

A heavy electric motor car containing nineteen passengers went through the draw bridge of the central viaduct atCleveland, 0., at 7:45 o’clock Saturday evening and dropped 101 feet to the river below. Fifteen of the bodies have been recovered. Charles Bierce died at Flora, 111., as the result of injuries sustained in a railway accident at lola. His remains were taken to Assumption for interment. The infant son of A. Epstein of Berlin, Wis., was accidentally drowned in a cistern. Fire at Slabtown, Pa., badly damaged a number of houses. The loss is $15,000. William Schultz died at Sheboygan, Wis., from injuries received while unloading a vessel. Ward Leonard, aged 60 years, was drowned in the Wabash river at Vincennes, Ind. His father, mother, two brothers and a sister were drowned in the Ohio river at different times. Daniel Crimmins was instantly killed by a passenger train on the Big Four road at Springfield, 0. Two freight trains on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road collided at Summtt, Mich., killing Alfred C. Mortag of Green Bay, an engineer, and badly injuring Frank Stocks. Two locomotives were wrecked and several freight cars ditched. James Roberts, 37 years old, was Instantly killed at Linden, 111., by falling thirty feet down a mining shaft John Kane, an old resident of Laporte, Ind., while working in a water works trench, was caught by a cave-in and killed. Kenton Waltz was killed and two other men buried for several hours by the falling of the roof of a coal mine at Miley, Ind. Slyvester Walker, son of David R. Walker, a merchant of Boscobel, Wis., was killed at Republic, Mich., while coupling cars.