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

CASUALTIES.

The plant of the Illustrated American Magazine at First avenue and Twenty-third street, New York, was damaged $25,000 by fire. Melvin Helterbran, while crossing the mountains at Telluride, Colo., was carried down to death by snowslide. The body has been shipped to Rock Island, 111., for burial. John Parks, a brakeman on the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis railroad, who lived at Mnmhvghorn. 111., was run

over oy his engine at Springfield ana crushed to death. The last body of the victims of the explosion in the Detroit Journal building was taken from the ruins Friday night. Thirty-seven in all have been recovered. The engineer of the building has been arrested charged with criminal negligence. During a fog at Norfolk, Va., the steamer Newport News sunk the tug Katie, drowning her cook and fireman. John Altmarsh, an engineer, and Andrew Harnlck, a fireman, were killed and cremated by a collision between dummy engines in the blast furnaces at Pittsburg, Pa.