Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1912 — NONON BRIDGE ON FIRE NEAR SHELBY [ARTICLE]

NONON BRIDGE ON FIRE NEAR SHELBY

Fast Paper Train From Chicago Found It Burning and Later Bridge Crew .Repaired It. Members of the crew on the fast paper train, No. 31, from Chicago, this Wednesday morning discovered a Monon bridge, north of Shelby, to be on fire. The train stopped and the fire was extinguished. The bridge was not seriously damaged and the train passed across it, but the bridge gangs were notified and went there later in the day to replace several partially burned timbers..