Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1912 — FREIGHT WRECK DELAYED TRAINS [ARTICLE]

FREIGHT WRECK DELAYED TRAINS

Old u Car Crumpled Up On Main Track and Four Passengers Awaited Clearing. An extra freight of 85 empty box car? southbound Sunday afternoon uas stopped in Rensselaer for orders, which required it to take the side track to permit northbound passengers 6 and 38 to pass. In an effort to back up an old car that was being taken to the shops crumpled up in the middle and another derailed. The engineer did not know that the car had been crushed and he kept trying to back up, having received no signal from the rear of the long train. The disabled and derailed cars were near the residence of Dave McConnahay, who telephoned to the depot about as follows; ‘Tell that engineer to stop trying to back up, he has cars scattered all over the country now.” The“ Jumbo” wrecker was brought here from Monori and the track was not cleared until after 7 o'clock, and northbound passengers 38, 6 and 30, and the southbound milk train were held until a clearing was made. The old car was pitched off to the side of the track and burned.