People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

During a general light at the Illinois Central depot in Fort Defige, lowa, an unknown participant fell adder a moving engine and was killed. The 9-year-oW daughter of C. C. Maynard, of Anderson. Ind., whs fatally burned while playing about a fire. Her mother sustained severe injuries in rescuting the child. , Southern Vermont reports a furious blizzard and a general blockade of traffic threatened. While trying to make op lent time, the fast express train from KnoxvfUe, Tenn., to Cincinnati waa wrecked At Livingston, Ky. John King, the engineer, who was making hie first trip, was killed. Frank Baldwin, 20 years of age, was killed at Pittsfield, 111., by the accidental discharge of his gun. Lemuel Collins, a young man of Edmore, Mich., was killed while stealing a ride on a freight train near Ligonler, Ind. , John Oppy, aged 40, a farmer of Wasetka, 111., was killed by a stick of wood flying from a buzz saw. Martin Vogel, a young Hollander, aged 16, fell beneath the wheels at the street stable car company’s cleaning yards, south of Fulton. 111., and waa killed.