People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

By the explosion of a lamp at Ottawa, 111., Mrs. Catherine Mahew, an aged Frenchwoman, was cremated and her house destroyed. Hawley’s block in Danbury, Conn., was destroyed by fire, many of the tenants narrowly escaping death. The loss is SIOO,OOO. Fire consumed eight-story manufacturing building on the corner of Canal and Jackson streets, Chicago, Wednesday night. The building was occupied by twenty firms, who all suffered a total loss of their plants. Financial loss will be over $600,000. James Cochran, of Moweaqua, 111., aged 17, died from injuries received while wrestling with his brother. Fire at Lowell, Mass., destroyed; a five-story block In the center of the city, earning a loss of at least $360,000. Forest fires are raging on the Little Kanawha, near Parkersburg, W. Va. Large tracts of woods and barns and fencing “ave been burned. At Union Springs, Ala., a passenger train ran into an open switch and struck two loaded freight cars. The engine and freight cars were demolished, while Fireman Morris was killed and Engineer Lawrence was badly burned. While attempting to jump from a moving Santa Fe train at Strong City, Kan., J. E. Smith, a well-to-do farmer, formerly of Chicago, was struck by a water crane and killed. A north-bound passenger train on the Big Four road ran into three cars loaded with piling near Marshall, 111. The engine was demolished and several ca*T badly damaged. Dr. D. H. Hammond, a prominent physician of Grandview, near Rockport, Ind., was killed in a runaway. 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.