Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1885 — A WRECK, [ARTICLE]

A WRECK,

On the lew Albany Road at Cherry Grove Thursday Wight. Lafayette Call. The extra freight going South, which left here at 10 o’clock last night, ran of the track at Cherry Grove, and the engine (No. 32) and eighteen cars tumbled into the ditch. The engineer and trainmen escaped uninjured,, but the fireman, William Dillard, of this city, was badly bruised in the side, and had his left leg broken. His injuries however, are not thought to be serious. He was brought up to the city about 8 o’clock this morning, and taken to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. The train Was composed entirely of empty coal cars, billed to Brazil for loading. One of the empties was thrown right od top of the engine, which is a bad wrock, and a good many of the cars are considerably broken up. A train was sent down to the wreck and brought up the passengers from the night train bound North, reaching here at Ba. m.; speeding right on to Chicago. The track has not been cleared or trains passed as we write, but probably will be so that the afternoon trains today can pass as usual.