People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — CASUALTIES [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES

There was a damaging wreck on the lowa Central near Steamboat Rock, lowa, Sunday morning. An extra freight was coming north and was running at high speed ■when the front trucks of the engine gave way, sending the entire train of twenty-five cars into the ditch. Engineer Tom Clegg was fatally injured. The financial loss is $25,000. A severe earthquake was felt at Cairo, 111., Sunday night. It consisted of two distinct jars moving from the west and lasted about twenty seconds. The largest structures were shaken with a swaying motion, and people rushed in terror to the streets. No damage was been reported. At Georgetown, I»id., Edward Ellis was struck in the throat with a harrow tooth and bled to death before a surgeon could be called. While Tom Darben, a logging man, was absent in Virginia chopping wood, his mountain home at Beaver Creek, Ky., burned and his wife and four children were cremated. A small tornado passed over a part of Wabaunsee county, eight miles southeast of Wamego, Kan., Thursday night. Henry Miller’s 8-year-old son w r as killed while Miller and his wife were perhaps fatally hurt. Colonel John S. Mosby was thrown from a buggy at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Va., and received a cut which may seriously injure one eye. Mrs. Calvin Eastman was prostrated at Dixon, 111., during a storm by a shock of lightning. She fell from a chair and was unconscious some time. Today her eyesight is affected, but her entire recovery is hoped for. Fire broke out at 2:30 p. m. in the town of Potterville, near Homestead, Pa., and thirty-six houses were burned. The origin of the fire is unknown. Shoals, Ind., was again visited by fire Wednesday, the second time in two months. A block of nine houses in the business part of town was burned. The loss wfll not exceed $15,000. The postoffice building, a grocery store, sawmill, drug store and office buildings were destroyed.