People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — HISTORY OP A WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HISTORY OP 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. John Buttl of East Chicago was killed by the cars at Whiting, Ind. Thomas Wall, a wealthy lumberman of Oshkosh, Wis., and a noted democratic politician, died suddenly in Milwaukee. Four men were instantly killed, two fatally Injured, and another badly hurt in the wreck of a trestle on the Bedford Belt line, near Bedford, Ind., Monday. The men were members of a train repairing crew, and their train broke through the trestle, falling sixty feet. Alfred Mottes’ woolen mill at Roubaix waS burned. The loss is estimated at $600,000. John Vetosky of Emerald, Wis., was killed by the caving in cf a well. Fire at Geneva, lowa, caused a loss of SIB,OOO. A Northwestern engine and four cars were wrecked at Turner, 111., Saturday night. A boy is supposed to have taken a pin out of a switch, causing the accident. Trains were blocked for several hours. A cyclone struck Colorado City, Texas, Saturday night, doing considerable damage to property and resulted in the death of James Solomon, a 12-year-old boy. The Solomon house was scattered all over the block. Mr. Solomon, wife and five children had retired and it is remarkable that any of them escaped alive. Twenty-eight men were driven off shore on the ice near St. Johns, N. F., Saturday night. One of the men landed in the morning, and it is supposed that the others have got ashore at desolate points on the coast.