People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — CABUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CABUALTIES.

Mr. Haines and Mr. Buckley, tto young men of Lowell, Ind., went bathing in the mill pond near that town Sunday afternoon and both were drowned. They were both good swimmers, but it is supposed they were attacked with cramps. The pond was dragged and their bodies were found. The 6ryear-old eon of George Cramer, who was drowned In the Wabash river at Wabsh, Ind., Saturday afternoon, was found five miles below town. Word was received at Oconto, Wis., of the drowning of six persons In Shawano lake during a gale at 6:50 o’clock Saturady evening. The party consisted of O. A. Risum and wife, Herman Drackrey and wife and Louis Gokey, wife and child, of Pulciver. Miss Emma Garbrecht of Shawa*no and Miss Margaret Crown of St. Nazlanz. When about three miles from shore the boat was capsized by a sudden squall. Mr. Risum and Mr. Drackey clung to the capsized boat for almost five hours, the latter holding the Gokey child in his arms, when they were rescued by men from Cecil. At Ellsworth, near Bloomington, 111., Earl Millay, a young farmer, was instantly killed by the kick of a horse. At an early hour Saturday Albert Sooy, who lived In Jacksonville, 111., was instantly killed while attempting to board a train on the Chicago and Alton railroad at Ashland. Herman Cole of Manistee, Mich., a balloonist, was killed at North park, Grand Rapids, Sunday afternoon. When the balloon rose from the ground it was driven by a stiff wind against a building and Cole was swept off the handle bar and fell about thirty feet. He died an hour later. Fprd Dexter, aged 16, was drowned wnllo bathing in the Mississippi near Clinton, lowa. Otto Luther of Baraboo, Wis., who was badly burned in a gas explosion, is dead. E. S. Wlsegarver, a farmer of Deland, 111., was drowned in the Sangamon river while bathing. Edward T. McGolrich, aged 22, was killed by lightning on a farm two miles south of Galesburg, Mich.