People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — CASUALTIES [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES

Thomas Coulton, of Elwood, Ind., was probably fatally burned while sleeping. The origin of the fire is unknown. Arthur Droescher and Miss Anna Schultz, while coasting at Meadville, Pa., eollided with an iron fence. Miss Schultz will die. Solomon M. Wyant, member of a glove firm of St. Louis, was found dead by his daughter, gas from a small stove suffocating him. Laura Bushman, aged 5, and Annie Swinkles, aged 14 years, were burned to death in a midnight fire, which destroyed their home at Sagole, Wis. Elihu Rucker and his 10-year-old son were drowned at Clyffeside Park, Ky., while harvesting ice. The father was drowned while trying to rescue the boy. Virgil Eberly made a mock hold-up of Orlando Deweese at Marion, Ohio. Deweese thought he was a robber and shot him through the lungs. Eberly will die. The 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Puluski, of Flambeau, Wis., was shot and fatally wounded by her 12-year-old brother. The children found an old shot gun, supposed not to be loaded. It was accidentally discharged. Two children were fatally and two others seriously burned in a fire in Canton, a suburb of Baltimore, Md. The explosion of a coal-oil lamp, which one of the children was trying to light, caused the fire. A fire which broke out at Johonnesburg Sunday caused damage amounting to 1375,000 to dry goods and other stores, warehouses, etc., Kothe, Wells & Bauer, wholesale grocers of Indianapolis, suffered a loss of $20,000 from fire in their warehouse. A man supposed to be Francois Morsoacha, of New York, was killed by a train at Elkton, Ind. Lillian Cecilia Lyons, aged 14, was burned to death in New York by the explosion of an oil stove in her bedroom. As the result of a fire which started in the cellar of the four-story marble front residence of James R. Armiger, 1806 North Charles street, Baltimore, Md., at 8:16 o’clock Sunday morning, seven persons are dead, one is fatally and four others are slightly injured and affine dwelling is completely wrecked. Guy Miller was kicked by a horse at Portland, Ind. He died three hours later.