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

CASUALTIES.

Arthur Pugh, of Flat, Ind., fell from an oil derrick, a distance of thirty feet, and received fatal injuries. Joseph Kennis, a coal miner, went to sleep while intoxicated. He was cut to pieces by an outgoing freight train. George Eby, aged 9, of Watseka, 111., was playing with a cartridge, when it exploded, inflicting a wound that proved fatal shortly afterward. W. H. Beardsley, a painter, of Turner, 111., lay down in the snow and went to sleep Saturday night while intoxicated. He froze to death. John Casey of Freeport, 111., a brakeman on the Illinois Central, fell under the cars in the Rockford yards. One leg was cut off and the other badly mangled. His recovery is doubtful. Two fires in Chicago Sunday caused a doss of $700,000. - Fire in the Omaha National Bank building, at Omaha, Neb., damaged the office of Charles Offut $2,500, Lake, Hamilton & Maxwell SI,OOO and the building SI,OOO. Amos Laning of Greenville, Ohio, was terribly crushed by a heavy traction engine, which broke through a bridge and fell twenty feet His companion escaped injury. Harry T. Reed, aged 35, died at Columbus, Ohio, of hydrophobia. He was bitten about a month ago by a pet terrier. Gertrude Hornel, aged 5 years, was bitten by the same dog and will be sent to the hospital. By the bursting of a water pipe the clothing stock of Woodflll & Sons of Greenburg, Ind., was damaged to the extent of $5,000. Martin J. Wiley, formerly of Leroy, 111., was killed by a train at American Fails, Idaho. Joseph Guest, a miner, aged 20 years, fell down a shaft at Spring Valley, 111., a depth of 487 feet, and was killed. Every member of the family of William Pfeil of Wabash, Ind., was poisoned by eating cracked wheat and milk Six men were injured by cte explosion of a boiler in the engine-house of the New Athens Coal Company at Belleville, 111. Jacob Emig and Henry Sands are not expected to recover.