People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — HISTORY OF A WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HISTORY OF A WEEK.

THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP TO DATE. Political, Religious, Social and Criminal Doings of the Whole World Carefully Condensed for Our Readers —The Accident Record. CASUALTIES. During a windstorm the wall of a building recently destroyed by fire fell upon the house of H. A. Vaughn at No. 745 Cedar avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Tons of brick crashed through the roof, carrying down a portion of the upper floor. Mrs. F. 0. Bradford, of Olmsted Falls, 0., a sister of Mrs. Vaughn, was killed in her bed, and Miss Emma Dietrichs, a domestic, was badly injured. A gale broke the ice on Lake Winnebago, Wis., Sunday and it was driven to the west shore in great masses, piling up to a height of twenty or thirty feet. Trees were uprooted and huge bowlders were moved like pebbles Boat houses and all structures along the shores were Wiecked. In Oshkosh North Park suffered greatly from the moving ice. The fire which broke cut in the business portion of Weston, W. Va., soon after midnight Sunday morning, destroyed property to the value of $150,000, only about one-third of which is covered by insurance. The property burned was about one-half the business portion of the town, which is the seat of the state hospital for the insane Jim and Frank Tilman and Lucy Law were instantly killed by a rock crashing through the house where they were sleeping at Echo, a station forty miles west of Hinton, W. Va., Sunday morning. Two other members of the family were seriously injured. The house was situated at the foot of the mountain on the banks of the New River. An enormous ledge of rocks broke loose on the mountain side passing over coke ovens, tearing up the track of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad and breaking through the house. Henry Law, one of the occupants who escaped, had the presence of mind to rush out and flag an east-bound express train, which was Just due, and While thawing a dynamite cartridge at Lewiston. N. Y., an Italian laborer was killed and Seymour Eddy lost both eyes.