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

CASUALTIES.

Dr. 7. B. King, of Windfall, Ind., was dangerously burned by a natural gas explosion. A sister ojt lames Brown, of Napoleon, Ohio, whiter %ropisg in the darkness, fell down a cellar stairway, receiving fetal injuries. She was 82 years of age. * ▲t an early hour Sunday morning fire in UttvAtlaatlc Oil Refinery at .Pittsburg. Pa., caused a loss of over SIOO,OOO. A fire which nearly wiped oat the business portion of Berrien Springs, Mleh., occurred Sunday morning. Seven buildings, Including the postoffice, and stores were fefyraed. The loss is $25,000; insurance fl« 900. O. H. Hoyt,- a farmer of Eldora, lowa, was killed by runaway horses. Samuel O’Brien of Bonrbon, Ind., was badly burned by the explosion of a gasoline stove. John Gurtis, engineer at a saw mill near Williamsport, Ind., was fatally injured by an explosion. P. J. Devahny, a switchman in the SL Paul yards at Iron Mountain, Mich., fell from a box car and was fatally hurt. Five men were burned Friday In the converting shod, of the Illinois Steel company at Archer and Ashland avenues, Chicago. Three were badly burned, two ttf %hom are not expected to live. v > John InglOetafcn, employed on a water works tten&ft at Duluth, Minn., was killed by the accidental discharge of a dynamite cartridge.