People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — CAS[?]TIES. [ARTICLE]

CAS[?]TIES.

Mound City, Hi., sustained a disastrous fire Tuesday morning. Three of the principal business houses and one of the best residences in the town were lost, together with most of their contents. The origin of the fire is unknown, but the popular belief is that it is the work of an incendiary. The property was all insured to the amount of four-fifths of its value. In a heavy gale Tuesday night a large steamer went ashore off Drumhead, a small fishing village near Isaac’s harbor, N. S., and without doubt those on board were drowned. While thirty men were engaged in excavating under a two-story stone building, owned and occupied by C. D. Bevington, at Winterset, lowa, the west wall caved in, and the men, hearing the crash, made good their escape. Three men were slightly injured. An electric car on the Lindell railway at St. Louis ran into a carriage at Twenty-seventh street and Washington avenue at noon Tuesday and severely injured four of its five occupants. While four workmen were being lowered into a new shaft of the Lake Fidler mine at Shamokin, Pa., the “billy” which balances the elevator, and weighs about 1,000 pounds, fell upon them without warning. They were instantly killed. The victims were: James Merritt, Stephen Merritt, Patrick Lynch and Peter Bogert, all,of Springfield, Pa. There are two counties in Western Kansas threatened by prairie fire. Monday night a lurid light was seen in the sky, observable simultaneously at Pueblo, Col., and Wichita, a distance apart of 500 miles. The supposition is there are two immense prairie fires in Kansas, a distance of 150 miles apart. Mrs. James Morgan of Elwood, Ind., fell down a flight of stairs and fractured her skull. She may die. Fred Shoopman of Virginia, 111., was accidentally shot and killed while attempting to secure a gun to kill wild geese. At 8 o’clock Sunday night at Roxabell the west-bound passenger accommodation train No. 13 on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railway collided with a freight train going east at forty miles an hour and made a complete wreck of both engines. One man was killed and seven injured. The Park No. 2 colliery at Trenton Pa., owned and operated by Lentz, Lilly & Co., was destroyed by fire Saturday night This colliery, which was burned March 11, 1894, and rebuilt, was valued at SIOO,OOO and gave employment to 1,000 men and boys. t The home of Mrs. L. E. Harvey at Wheaton, 111., caught fire from some unknown cause. A chimney fell on two members of the fire department, causing their death in a few minutes.