Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1887 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Miss Mary B. ~ Hill, a student in the freshman Cornell university, Ithaca. X. Y„ fell Sunday afternoon from the path leading along the edge -of Coscadilla gorge to the bottom, a distance of sixty feet. She was so severely injured th(»t she died: A’ train on the Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Road was derailed, and Charles i Weidman. engineer. Merritt Corbett and , George San fore, firemen, were severely injured. ■ ’ ''} ■ An artesian well at Groton. W. a T., broke • through the earth a hundred yards from the natural outlet and flooded the district. A large tissnre-has been made in the earth, running under the Episcopalian ! Church, and is feared; the building will fall.

The fast train on the Pittsburg ± Fort Wayne road Collided with a freight train at Columbiana. Ohio. The engineer was badly hurt and the passengers much scared aud shaken up. An accommodation train on the St. Louis i Hannibal road was derailed near Frankfort. Mo. A lady named Dickinson, from New London, was probably fatally injured. Another lady had an arm broken. Conductor W. C. Richardson had a leg crushed. Brakemati Mallery had his edt- ' tat-EotieP broken. Xo eause is; assigned tor the accident. Jacob Welti, proprietor of an extensive barrel factory at Cleveland. Ohio, failed, Wednesday. The assets are estimated at s4<‘.()Go, and liabilities at S6O,:XX).