Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — Good Fortune Prevents Bad Wreck of the “Hoosier Limited.” [ARTICLE]

Good Fortune Prevents Bad Wreck of the “Hoosier Limited.”

The good fortune of an empty switch at Lee is all that saved the north bound “Hoosier” Limited’’ from a disastrous wreck at that station Tuesday evening. The train is due in Rensselaer at 5:44 o’clock and its schedule requires a speed of almost a mile a minute. It was running at a speed estimated at 50 miles ah hour when it ran into the open switch at Lee, The engineer sftw at once that the train had left the main track and he threV on the emergency brakes, hut the train had run a considerable distance before it could be stopped. The sudden stopping of the train gave all passengers a violent shaking up and the newsboy, who was walking down the aisle was thrown to the floor. In another coach the brakeman, who had just entered the front door of the car, was thrown down. No injuries were reported. Quite a number of passengers coming to Rensselaer were on the train, mostly traveling men. Among them were Harry Jacobs, of- this city, and Will McLain and O. F. Maxwell, of Frankfort. All '•report that they were given quite a shaking up. i The switch had been left open by the crew of a southbound freight. The is understood to have claimed that he arranged with the agent at Lee to close the switch. The agent claims that he did not agree to close it. It looks like some one would lose a job by the negligence.