Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1887 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

Five men were badly burned by the ex' plosion of gas in t he Twin colliery operated Junction. Pa., near Scranton. Patrick . Barrett and Edward Mooney have died and Michael Finan is not expected to live. Throe yonng then were drowned by a sudden stornij while rowing on the lake at Chicago. d A construction and a freight tram were 'ii tollision noar Makando, 111,, Saturday morning. Engineer Hall being killed and j Fireman Shroeder, injured. Six cars and ; their contents were burned. A number of freight cars were wrecked Sunday by a collision of trains near Montoursville, Pa. Engineer Erastus Hinckley was killed.

A heavy wind struck Rockford, 111., and unroofed buildings. I; is also stated that the same wind storm drove the steamer City of St. Louis ashore at Lake Minnetonka, and made things move around very lively at Minneapolis. Minn. A can of coal oil exploded in the house of a miner named Hopper, at Pittsburgh., _Paa_and his wife an J child wera fatally burned. The steamer Champlain of the Northern Michigan Lino burned off Charlevoix, Mich., Thursday night, at midnight, and eight or ten persons are reported to have lost their lives. The ( ham plain was a small -propeller r -what is known as canal size and was built.in 1806 for the Nortlierh Transportation Company, which ran n line of daily boats between here and Ugdensburg, N. V. The city of Grand Forks, Dakota, was swe'pt by a tornado, Thursday. Four persons were killed, many wounded and a large number of buildings blown down. The Hon. Samuel L. Wilson, a prominent member of the Erie i Pad bar, was drowned while fishing. Two men were killed and two shockingly mutilated in the Mill Creek mine of, the Delaware and Hudson Company, at Wilkesbarre, Pa. In the same mine a man was killed Monday, and the regular hands would not go to work the day after, as the accident had occurred on the 13th of the month. Two brothers named Fisher were crossing a bridge near Butler. Mo., with a traction engine, when a part of the bridge gave way, and they were precipitated in the water, and held there two hours, one entirely under the water, and the other with his head out. A wagon load of nitro glycerine cans exploded near Olean, N. Y. killing Lem Hart, whose mangled r -mains were found many yards away. The wagon was blown to splinters, the horses badly mangled, and fences were demolished. Matthew Rapp, a prominent farmer living seven miles east of Ft. Joseph, Mo., was instantly killed by lightning. Five men were killed and many injured by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge in the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company's mines at Inman, a few miles from Chattanooga. The victims were nearly all-English. Mrs. A. Glazebrook, of Louisville, Ky., while aslt-Cp, walked out of a window early Monday morning and was killed by the fall.