Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1911 — MONON PASSENGER TRAIN DERAILED AT ST. JOHN. [ARTICLE]

MONON PASSENGER TRAIN DERAILED AT ST. JOHN.

No. 32 has Accident utTndiana Harbor Crossing with Usual Good Lnck— Engineer Hurt. Monon passenger train No. 32, due in Rensselaer at 10:05, and which took on several passengers, at Rensselaer, was derailed at about 11 o’clock this Monday morning at the Indiana Harbor railroad crossing at St. John. Only meager* information was received in Rensselaer and that was to the effect that the engine turned over on its side and that the engineer, John Murphy, was injured and was placed in the care of a physician. The extent of his injuries could not be learned. No passengers were injured beyond a slight shake-up. Both mail cars were derailed and the front trucks of the combination car were also derailed. Among the passengers from Rensselaer on the train were Mrs .George Ketchum, Mrs. J. L. Brady, Mrs. W. C. Babcock and Ross Benjamin. Passenger train No. 33, due here from the north at 1:58, was detoured around and it is probale that the wreck will hardly be cleared away in time to permit the passing of the north bound trains due in Rensselaer at 2:53 and 3:15,