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

CASUALTIES.

Robert Janssen, aged 30, employed at a chemical laboratory at Anne, Md., fell into a vat of nitric acid and was killed. Mistaking William Lanning, his hired man, for a burglar, Willis Broughton, of Corfu, N, Y., chopped him to death with an ax. Peter Inglewitz was fatally injured in a runaway at Milwood, Ind. By the caring in of a coal mine at Carmel, N. Y. f fourteen Italian and Austrian miners were crushed to death. Harry Heintzelman of Joliet, HI., agedl2 years, while shooting sparrows, accidentally shot himself. James Sheran of Elwood, 111., was struck by a train on the Chicago and Alton road and killed. Harris Shawk and Harry March of Lisbon, 0., were killed by a train near Leetonia while crossing the Fort Wayne railroad in a buggy. A serious freight wreck occ i red in the Akron, 0., yards, a south-bound freight running into a switching train. Engineer Ahrens jumped and was probably fatally injured. August Sahinamon, a business man of Walnut, 111., was killed by a railroad train between Mendota and Walnut The coroner’s jury rendered a verdict of accidental death. Rev. A. Henrich and wife were asphyxiated by gas from their hardcoal stove at Platte City, Neb. Mr. Henrich was found dead and his wife was dying when neighbors forced the door. A 12-year-old son of ex-County Treasurer Columbus A Freeland accidentally shot himself at Hillsboro, 111. Jesse Wimp, a farmer living near Colusa, 111., was run over and killed by a passenger train on the Cartha branch of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad. While preparing for a hunting trip, a son of Mrs. C. Wilhelm, of Buckingham, 111., accidentally killed his mother.