People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CASUALTIES.

At Springfield, 111., houses were unroofed, chimneys blown off and trees and outbuildings demolished by the storm. In the vicinity of ers are much alarmed at the continued rainfall. Oats in. shock are beginning to sprout, and the ground has been loosened so that corn is falling down. Inhabitants of the lowlands along the Illinois and Sangamon rivers are preparing to move out on account of the rising waters. In the vicinity of Virginia, 111., the corn crop is prostrated by rains. Lightning etrnck and destroyed the mammoth barn and granary on the Judge J. W. Marsh farm at Warsaw, 111., together with ten tons of hay and 500 bushels of oats. All trains on the Hocking Valley and Ohio Central railroad are from three to four*hours late on account of high water. Sunday Creek and Hocking river are raising rapidly, causing much damage. Bridges on the Ohio Central have been washed away near Corning. At Hillsboro, HI., the farmers art worried about the continued rains, but console themselves with the thought that millions of chinch bugs have been destroyed. The Wabash river in the vicinity of Marshall, 111., is rising rapidly, and the farmers fear a damaging overflow. The suspension bridge at Muncie, Ind., went down Friday and precipitated twelve boys into the river. Walter Darlington, aged 15, was drowned. Two others are missing. It is feared the five remaining bridges will be* swept away. At Warsaw, 111., bridges and fences were washed away by the heaviest rainstorm in years. Great damage to crops is reported. Heavy rains throughout West Vir ginia caused great damage.

Floyd wuson or Marinette, Mien., was drowned at Menominee. An unknown man waa cut to pieces on the railroad near Yorkville, 111. Miss Lou Smith of Decatur, 111., was struck by" lightning. It is thought she will die. Charles Dobrilait of Fond du Lac, Wis., waa killed by a freight train a* Altoona, 111. Thomas Murphy, a blind man, fell from a bridge near Sorento, 111., and died Instantly. A cave-ln atWilkesbarre, Pa.,wrecked four houses. Parkersburg, W. Va., waa visited by a disastrous storm.

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