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

CASUALTIES,

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. John Gaegory, aged 75, was found lying dead in the snow in a field three miles from Bloomington, 111., having wandered from his home in the city. He perished in the storm. Roman Bohrer and Sadie Henschen, a young country couple, while going home from a dance near Areola, Ind., were struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train and instantly killed. While hunting at Hillsdale, Mich., Charles Harris accidentally killed his son, aged 15 years. Silas Sherman, a farmer of Cambridge, lowa, accidentally killed himself while hunting. While preparing for a hunting trip, a son of Mrs. C. Wilhelm, of Buckingham, 111,, accidentally killed his mother. Angered at his failure to catch a horse, A. H. Nichols, of Lincoln, Neb., threw a club at the animal, but missed his marie, the missile striking and killing his 8-year-old daughter. While hunting with a party of boy companions near Milford, Ind., Frank Johnson, aged 8, was accidentally shot and killed. The gun was in the hands of Clifford Robinson. In preparing her 2-months-old child for a long ride, Mrs. J. V. Barthman, of Ellsworth, Minn., wrapped it in too many shawls and it smothered during the journey. —At Elwood, Ind., Katz Bros’, candy store, J. R. Walters’ upholstery and Schwartz’s restaurant; total loss, •2,000. At Fort Wayne, Ind., Beyer Bros’, collar factory; loss, $4,000. At Beloit, Wis., the Phi Kappa Psl fraternity house was slightly damaged. During a chureh fair in the city armory at Wooster, Ohio, the explosion of a lamp precipitated a panic, in which many women and children were crushed. Two persons are likely to die. Thirty-six persons were rescued from three ships which were wrecked off the shore of Evanston, 111., Tuesday night. The storm of Monday and Tuesday in the west is said to be the worst experienced in this country since the great blizzard of 1888. Damage to property was very great, but few lives were lost