People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Calopero Ulocca of Racine, Wis.. was crushed to death by a car of stone. Colonel Dudley, a promient business man, was thrown from a carriage in Joliet, 111., and had a leg broken in three places below the knee. William Swartz, while playing ball Sunday at Pataskala, Licking county, 0., was struck on the head by a pitched ball and died in a few minutes. Earl H. Sivers, aged 7, and Thomas I. Melville, aged. 12, were drowned at Kenosha, Wis., while gathering pond lilies. A hard hailstorm occurred at 5 o’clock Monday afternoon between Montford, Wis., and Preston, Wis. Hailstones one and one-half inches in diameter literally cut down large fields of oats. Windows of several houses in Preston were broken. The damage is considerable. Fire at Elva, Trempeleau County, Wis., Sunday morning destroyed the hotel and three or four houses. The loss is supposed to be $12,000. Mrs. Emil Durr, wife of the president of the German-American bank at Milwaukee, died at the summer home at Nagowicka Lake, the result of injuries received in a runaway accident June 4. Lake City, a mountain village in California, was nearly destroyed last Friday by a waterspout. No lives were lost. A negro tramp, aged 18, while bathing in the Kasliasia river at Carlyle, 111., was drowned. His name was not known. The body was recovered.