People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — CHILDREN TRAMPLED. [ARTICLE]

CHILDREN TRAMPLED.

INJURED BY RUNAWAY HORSES AT MILWAUKEE. Ivo Will Die from the Wound* Received Washout Cause* a Train* Wreck Near Cedar Rapids, lowa — Dakota Cyclone Destroys a Town. Milwaukee, Wis., April 29.—Maddened by fright, two powerful horses attached to a hack trampled upon more than a score of little school children Tuesday afternoon. Two of the children will die, five were badly injured and about fifteen others were bruised and cut. The fatally injured: NOLDEN, ANNIE, three ribs broken and injured internally. SCHUDIA, FRANK, right leg broken above the knee and internally injured. The injured: Brodke, Maggie, bruised about the head and shoulders. Fischer, Joseph, internal injuries and body bruised. Katke, Julius, shoulder dislocated and collar bone broken. Kress, Joseph, shoulder dislocated. Nau, Emil, right arm badly crushed and lacerated. The horses and carriage were standing at the corner of Fourth avenue and Mitchell street and were hitched to an iron weight. The driver, Herman Schultz, stood close by, talking to a friend. As a trolley car passed up Mitchell street the team suddenly took fright, and before Schultz could grab ■the reins they had run away. Just at this time the pupils in the parochial school of St. Anthony’s German Catholic church, located upon Mitchell street, between Fourth and Fifth avenues, had been dismissed for the noon hour. The little ones, ranging from 7 to 12 years, were filing slowly out of the building, laughing and chatting, when the frightened team jumped clear from the street and landed upon the sidewalk in their midst. The joyous shouts of the children gave way to cries of terror and anguish as they were trampeled down under the iron-bound hoofs of the runaway team. It seemed short of a miracle that a dozen of the tots were not killed outright. The frenzied horses stood upon their hind legs, fell upon all fours and cut great holes in the planks of the sidewalk with their fore feet in a mad endeavor to clear themselves of the incumbrance of the carriage and harness. Underneath their perspiring carcasses and upon all sides of them lay little children. Some were unconscious. Others were silent through awful fear, while many moaned piteously for help. It was a heartrending sight, and for a minute or two the spectators were so badly dazed they could render no assistance to the unfortunates. As willing hands were lent to the rescue the team swerved off the sidewalk and continued on in its mad flight until the intersection of Forest Home avenue, wher a crowd of men succeeded in capturing it.

PASSENGERS SHAKEN UP. Accident to an Illinois Central Train in lowa. Chicago, April 28. —An accident occurred Tuesday to the Illinois Central east-bound train No. 2 from Sioux City to Chicago at 2:45 o’clock in the morning one mile east of Raymond, lowa. The accident was due to a washout, occasioned by the heavy rains with which lowa was deluged Monday. The engine, mail-car, baggage-car and rear sleeper did not leave the tracks, and only the front wheels of the smoker, next the baggage-car, went off, but the intervening cars were derailed. The list of the injured is as follows: Mrs. Charles Baldwin, Waterloo, lowa. F. G. Vail, Waterloo, lowa. Mrs. D. Wagner, Dubuque, lowa. Miss Minnie Wagner, Dubuque, lowa. Mrs. E. Barney, Sheffield, lowa. Mrs. R. B. Rutludge, Williams, lowa. Mattie Nailer, Williams. lowa. Benjamin Facins, Eagle Grove, lowa, right leg severely bruised. Mrs. A. M. Roberts, Sioux City, injured in chest. Mrs. A. C. McKee, Rock Rapids, lowa, teeth knocked out and face cut. May Haning, Darlington, Wis., cut about face and head. Mrs. W. W. Soul, Chicago, bruised about body. Nancy Barnes, Sheffield, lowa, head bruised and face badly cut. C. W. Baldwin, Waterloo, lowa, badly cut about the head. None of the trainmen was injured, but the passengers in the derailed cars received a number of cuts, bruises and other slight injuries. None of them was seriously hurt.

Deadly Cyclone in South Dakota. Mitchell, S. D., April 29. —Ay severe cyclone struck near Spencer Monday afternoon. It took a northerly course, destroying farm property and doing immense damage to crops. The little town of Epiphany lad directly in its path and was completely wiped off the earth, not a building being left standing. Three persons were fatally and fifteen more or less seriously injured in that immediate vicinity. The wires are down and reports are meager. A family of five is reported killed outright near Montrose, but the report cannot be Verified