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

CASUALTIES.

William Langford, 12 years old, was instantly killed by falling under a coal car at Galveston, Tex. John Farwell, aged 60 years, an early settler of Livingston county, Illinois, was Instantly killed by being thrown from his wagon at Pontiac. N. H. Hawley, a brakeman of Ashtabula, 0., was killed in Oil City, Pa. He was a son of Gideon Hawley, the oldest engineer on the Lake Shore road. William Nowlin arid his wife, colored, were severely burned by a fire which destroyed their home at Indianapolis, lnd. The woman cannot recover. While skating on Round Pond, Vt., two boys, George Rult, aged 13, and Jean Beaupre, aged 11, were drowned. Five persons were killed outright, one fatally injured and many others seriously hurt at the corner of Van Buren and Franklin streets, Chicago, Friday. Those killed were firemen. The financial loss will be in the neighborhood of $400,000. Thomas Kelley, a farm hand at Emington, 111., was gored to death by an infuriated bull. Elmer Frazer, of Peru, Ind., an employe of Brownell’s planing mill, was crushed to death by a log. While hunting ducks on the Wisconsin river at Boscobel Fred Renshaw was accidentally shot in the back by Peter Welley and will die. William Hamilton, aged sixty, a veteran of the Civil War, was killed by a caving embankment at Emporia, Kan. Russell Keys, a boy of Salem, 111., while hunting with three companions, was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun. By the explosion of a lamp at Ottawa, 111., Mrs. Catherine Mahew, an aged Frenchwoman, was cremated and her house destroyed.