People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Joseph Qant, a miner, aged 29 jrears, fell down a shaft at Spring Valley, 111., a depth of 4*7 feet, and was killed. Every member of the family of William Pfeil of Wabash, lad., was poisoned by eating cracked wheat and milk. Six men were Injured by the explosion of a boiler la the engine- ho use of the New Athens Coal Company at Belleville, 111. Jacob Emit and Henry Sands are not expected to recover. John Crisman, an oil man of Geneva, Ind., while intoxicated, weat into a livery stable and began mutilating the horses. A negro attendant struck him a fatal blow and has not been arrested. Engineer Forelines, Conductor Straley and a colored brakeman were killed in a wreck on the Norfolk & Western railway at Ennis, W. Va. Fire damaged the mill of the Norwich, Conn., Dyeing, Bleaching and Printing company to the extent of $50,000, partially covered by insurance. Seven persons were slightly injured by the wrecking of a passenger train near Dinsmore, Fla. Fire destroyed buildings worth $30,000 in Columbia, Tenn. The town of Mount Pleasant, in the same state, was almost destroyed. Mrs. Lizzie Nevlin was so badly burned at Ben wood, W. Va., that she cannot survive. John Sharp of New Marti nsdale, W. Va., was found frozen to death near Huntington. A six-story building running from 106 to 110 Attorney street and taking in 181 and 181 Vi Riverton street, New York city, was destroyed by lire. The loss Is estimated at $30,000. John Hersberger, a teamster on the drainage canal, was instantly killed. He leaves a widow and one child. A schoolhouse six Iniles east of RamBey, 111., was destroyed by fire. Fire destroyed property to the value of $40,000 to $50,000 at Rome. N. Y. Antone Hodenply, of the New York diamond firm of Hodenply & Son, fell from a wagon at Peofcia, 111., and was killed. He had $70,000 worth of diamonds in his possession. Fire at Indianapolis Tuesday morning destroyed eight wholesale mercantile establishments, causing a loss of half a million dollars. Four firemen were seriously injured, one It is thought fatally.