Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1887 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

- At Springfield, Mass., als year-old boy had his scalp partially torn off and one arm deeply lacerated by n leopard in one j of Barnum’s cages. Thelad climbed upon | the animal’s cage and was peering inside when the brute tried to drag him in. At Greenville. 111., Monday a baloon ascension was made. The aeronaut was unfortunate enough to come d-iwn on a pair of horses which kicked and injured him severely. By the explosion of a threshing machine engine on the farm mar Mascoutah. 111., John Plot), the engineer, was instantly killed. Three others were seriously injured. ’The' thresher and two wagons were burned, and two horses were killed. , A passenger train or the Cincinnati <t Muskingum Valley railroad was wrecked j near Zanesville. The baggage car Was thrown down an embankment and a combination car followed half-way down. Three coaches loaded with picnickers were derailed. Strange to say, nobody was ki led. Baggageinaster Lane was badly hurt and he is the only person injured. Six’men were crushed to death near Portsmouth, AX, by the ... caving-in of an excavation. forest fires south of Grand Haven, Michigan, are consuming much valuable timber. At BarracKsviile, W. Va., John Jennings, engineer of a freight train, was killed in a collision on the Bultimore <fc Ohio Road. John Davis was seriously injured. Cattle in four cars were all killed, and the train took fire and burned. John McCollum was burned to death in a fire at Bay City, Mich. Seymour When ton fell forty feet and escaped with a broken arm.