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

CASUALTIES

Engineer Harvey Adams was killed and his colored fireman fatally hurt on the Louisville and Nashville railroad at Forrest, Ala., by a collision bursting the engine boiler. The great rainstorm which was in progress all day Saturday, all Saturday night, and Sunday caused the greatest damage to property throughout the New England states known in twenty years. The loss will exceed $2,000,000. A boy was killed and five men seriously injured by their carriage colliding with a train at Marinette, Wis. John Butler was caught by a falling tree and killed near St. Francisville, IIL P. O. Nelson of Stephenson, Mich., was killed by a falling limb while in th« woods. William Dittendorfer 38 years old, was killed at Krumroy, 0., in a runaway accident Mrs. Sarah Mead, who was frightfully burned at Clinton, lowa, died from her injuries. Henry Porter, a laborer, in Sutton’s lumber camp, near Gordon, Wis., was crushed by a falling tree. George M. Groendicke, a Wishington, lowa, farmer, accidentally shot and killed himself while out hunting. James DeLong, an aged Niles, Mich., farmer, fell in his doorway and was probably fatally injured. He is the father of Jessie DeLong, the horseman.