People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

At Canton, 111.. William R. Rock, aged 16 years, on the Fourth held an oyster can filled with powder in one hand, and in the other he held a lighted cornstalk. A spark fell into the can, exploding the powder, and the boy ■was dreadfully torn, and died in a few hours. Daniel Devlin accidentally shot and Ipstantly killed his brother Joe at a dance near Parkersburg, W. Va., Saturday. Both were drinking heavily. David Gordon, a prominent.farmer of Knox county, 111., was killed by a mad hull at his home near Victoria, Saturday. An unknown tramp was drowned in the Ohio rijer at Cairo, 111., while indulging in a carousal with two companions on the proceeds of a half days’ begging about town. By the explosion of natural gas at the Evergreen Hotel, seven miles north of Allegheny, Pa., six persons were more or less injured, three, it is feared, fatally. Thomas McGinty, a laborer in the employ of McArthur Brothers, contractors. was run over and killed by a train at Cobden. 111. His body was found in a mutilated condition. Fire at Dyersville, lowa, Sunday night destroyed Schemmels' flouring mill, the jail and several warehouses. Loss Jlv.oOO to 115,000, covered by insurance Ida Bollinger, 11 years old, fell into an oat bin at Fort Dodge, lowa, and was suffocated. Julius Wolfgram. an inmate of the Milwaukee county insane asylum, hanged himself. George McCain was thrown from a load of lumber at Shelbyville, Ind., cr-hcd to a pulp. • James Logan and his son were hurled from carriage at Bushnell. 111. It is believed that the former will die fr om his injuries. A man who is supposed to be John McKinney was found dead on the Burlington tracks at Burlington, lowa. It is believed that he was run over by a train. Henry Linden of Chicago went to K'e'.v Baden to view the wreck caused by the cyclone. He was run down by fin Air line freight train while there and instantly killed. Mrs. Dooley, aged 60 years, was burned io death in the destruction by fire of her home in Buffalo. On the way to the fire two trucks collided, killing ti’.e horses attached to one of them and injuring two firemen.