People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

The east-bound mail train on the Louisville, Evansville and St Louis Railroad, which left St Louis at 8.25 a. m. Sunday and was due to arrive at Louisville at 5:40 p. m„ was wrecked at Gray’s switch, fourteen miles west of Huntingsburg, Ind. The fireman was killed. While five men were working on a tower of the new Methodist church at Kokomo, Ind., the scaffold broke, giving them a fal of forty feet. Joseph McGowan, William Spurgeon and Earl Chase were badly crushed and may die. An Illinois Central passenger train ran into an open switch at Mud Lake, seven miles east of Springfield, 111. The engine and baggage car were thrown off the track and turned over. The engine was badly damaged and the baggage car is a tptal wreck. The engineer and firemen were badly hurt. John Carroll, a boy employed in Lozier’s bicycle factory at Toronto, Ont., fell into a vat of boiling water and was scalded to death. John Chasteen, 65 years old, a native of Scots county, was run down by a passenger train near Jeffersonville,lnd., and killed instantly. The little daughter of Mrs. Clara Meyers, of Toledo, Ohio, fell from a cab at Wabash, Ind., and was run over. She may not recover.