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

CASUALTIES.

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. An express train of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road cut through a funeral procession at Chicago Sunday. Five persons we>e buried under the ruins of a mourning carriage, and two women were so badly injured that they may die.. 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. William Whitford of Emmett county, lowa, suffered the fracture of several ribs. His wagon slipped on the icy road and pinned him to a fence. John Willman of Milwaukee, Wis., met death while walking upon a railway bridge. A passenger train struck him, throwing him over the bridge into the river. While out hunting with John Peck near Alexandria, Ind., William Barlow had his right thigh shattered by the accidental discharge of the former’s gun, rendering amputation of the leg necessary. He may die. A boy named Walters, at Mlllidgeville, Ky., while playing, secured a revolver and shot his two little cousins, two girls, aged 4 and 8. A third was also injured. The boy then sent a ball through his own head. He and his two little cousins will die. Mrs. James Daniels of West Union, lowa, had two ribs broken while attempting to lead a calf. The Monitor-Republican, one of the principal news papers of the city of Mexico, urges the propmt realization of the idea of a continental congress of all American nations. Sunday the bands of Cuban insurgents ommanded by Nunez and Bermudez were seen at Managua, a village not more than twelve miles from the cltv of Havana.