People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1896 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Prentice Swain of Union, Ind., an engineer at a coal shaft, was found sleeping in fifteen inches of snow and died in a few minutes. Morton Newhouse, a farmer of Kokomo, Ind., injured in a railway wreck several years ago, has become violently insane as a result. Patrick Connolly, a switchman, was killed by the cars in the yards at Peoria, 111. Edward Conway, John Dilts and Thomas Ericson, were badly scalded at Kewanee, 111., while repairing a boiler. Harry Isaacs accidentally shot and killed Elmer Ross with a Flobert rifle at Evansville, Ind. John King, a prosperous farmer, living four miles from Trivoli, 111., was killed in a runaway accident. Theodore Paskert of Remsen, lowa, accidentally fell down stairs and fractured his skull, death resulting from the injury. The 9-year-old son of George Tidd was burned to death and another will die as the result of a suspected incendiary fire which destroyed his home at Lima, Ohio. At Harrisville, W. Va., Mrs. Hall, aged 80 years. was burned to death in a fire which destroyed the store and residence of her son. George Reed, yard master for the St. Paul road at Prairie du Chien, Wis., was killed by the cars. Charles Anderson was thrown from his wagon by a runaway at yadrid, lowa, and when found was so badly frzen that he cannot recover. Miss Katie Kinkle was burned to death: Mrs. Meyers, who tried to save her, was burned so badly that little hopes of her recovery are entertained; and a hired band was also painfully burned by the explosion of an oil can at Peck, Kas.