The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-05-11
Casualty List.

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Casualty List.
Fire threatened to wipe out the en-
tire town of Harrisonville, Ind, but
was subdued after causing loss of
$4,000. The blaze started in the Ma
tional hotel.
West-bound passenger train No. 81
on the Southern railway was wrecked
In the yards at Admission. Baggage
Master Norris was killed. Several
persons were injured.
A cloudburst has washed away all
the bridges on the Dry Fork railroad
between hendricks and Horton. w.
Va, distance of thirty miles, and the
line is completely tied up.
While unloading logs at Plant No 2
Of the Stephenson company at Wells,
William White was caught by ro!..lg
logs and instantly killed. His par
ents live at Niagara, Wis.
AS Lemuel Leet was going to Post
vile, Iowa with horse and buggy the
west-bound st. Paul passenger train
struck the vehicle at crossing, kill
ing Mr.. Leet and the horse.
Louis Larson, coal HEAVIER working
In the hold Of the steamer r. w. Eng
land at Gladstone, Mich, was fatally
injured by cable breaking, letting a
bucket of coal drop on him.
The Bayway Refining company's
plant at Elizabethport, N j., was de-
stroyed with loss OF 100000. Six
of the companys oil tanks blew up.
The blazing oil endangered shipping.
A man supposed, from letters in his
pocket, to have been Capt. D. G. I'm
derwood, either of Cincinnati or some
city in Michigan, was accidentally
killed by a passenger train at Free
port. Ill.
! Just as workmen had finished erect
ing the equestrian statue of Joliet in
O'Fallon Park, st. Louis, after remov-
ing it from the worlds fair grounds at
a cost of $4,000, it crumbled into dust
without apparent cause.
Lightning struck a handcar on
! which five men were riding near
Woodbine, Iowa. instantly killing Fred
Ullmer and rendering two others un-
conscious for several hours There
was a tremendous rain storm and
trains were delayed.
Two men were killed and five
others severely injured by the explo-
sion of cupola in the plant of the
| Illinois Steel company at South Chi
| cago. The accident was caused Wy
some water getting into the cupola
and the stea61 that was generated
caused the explosion.
Mistaking a carbolic acid bottle for
one which contained castor oil, a
nurse attending the family of Mrs. Ar
! thur McAuley at Centerville, Iowa.
gave the fiery acid to an infant child.
| The baby died within a few hours.
The room was dark when the dose was
| administered and the coroner's jury
! held that death came as the result OF
| an accident, and not criminal negli
gence.
| John Peters, eighteen years old
while walking near Edinboro lake
Pa, with his sister Margaret, twenty
one years old, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed. His hair was
burned off but his body bore no marks
His underclothing was destroyed, his
shoes torn into shreds and his hat was
| perforated with several holes. His
sister was severely injured and 1t was
an hour before she could reach farm
house only a quarter of mile distant
| Otherwise.
Henry c. Rouse, chairman of the
board OF directors of the Missouri
| Kansas & Texas railway and presi
dent OF other Western railways, died
in Cleveland of pneumonia. Mr.. Rouse
was fifty-six years old.
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