People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — CASUALTIES [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES

Five- workmen employed by the Standard Oil Company at Bayonne, N. J., were severely burned by the overflow of boiling tar from one of the big tanks at the company’s yards. Mrs. I. Oden, a farmer’s wife in the western part of Alabama, was burning some trash Saturday when a spark ignited her skirt and burned her so that she died. While she lay suffering ■ agonies she was forced to witness three large hogs devour her 2-months-old child, which she had laid on the ground while she worked. The southbound Sunset limited, the Southern Pacific transcontinental flyer, was wrecked near Puente. The train was running at a high speed on the down grade when it struck a horse. The engine and five of the six coaches were derailed. The shovel factory of Hubbard & Co. was destroyed by fire at Pittsburg, Pa., Loss about $100,000; insurance, $50,000. The origin of the fire is a complete mystery. The factory was one of the largest in the country. The dry*goods and clothing establishment of J. D. Curran at Stevens Point, Wis., was practically wiped out by fire. Loss, $20,000; insurance, $13,000. The Marion, Ind., canning factory was destroyed by fire. A large amount •f canned goods was in stock'. The factory canned tomatoes and sweet corn, and 300 people were employed daring the busy season. As the result of the disobedience of orders by J. A. Aiken, a motorman, a terrible head-end collision occurred Sunday between two cars of the newly completed Kirkwood Electric Railroad, which connects the suburban town of Kirkwood with St. Louis. Both cars were wrecked, four men were probably fatally injured, twenty-nine were badly hurt, and between twenty and thirty others were less seriously injured. Oliver Karschbaum, the 16-year-old son of a farmer near Osgood, Ind., while cutting trees, was struck on the head by a falling limb, crushing his skull and killing him instantly.