Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1913 — Monon is Restoring Train Service as Rapidly as Possible. [ARTICLE]

Monon is Restoring Train Service as Rapidly as Possible.

The Monday evehing milk train was able to cross the grade between the Wabash river and the shops at Lafayette and other train service on the Lafayette division is being restored. Train No. 5 today was scheduled to go as far south as Bloomington. The HoOsier Limited is also to make a trip each way between Indlrfhapolis and Chicago, via Lafayette, and between that city and Indianapolis over the Big Four,' as travel has not yet been restored on the Indianapolis division. By the last of this week it is provable that almost a regular schedule can be established. The Lafayette Courier tells of the work of Repairs in. that city. A ferry operated on a cable is to be the main means of communication with West Lafayette. So far the New York Central bridge has been the only method of crossing. The Tippecanoe county commissioners have decided to barricade both ends of the Main street bridge and it is said that at least a month will*pass before plans for reconstructing that bridge can be set on foot. A reporter for The Courier visited the suburb called Connersville and gives the following description of the conditions there: “The people who saved their little homes were all busy shoveling out the mud and refuse. They had carpets, curtains and clothing hung oh trees and fences dryin g out. In some places the water went over the roofs of the houses. Several, dwellings were carried taway completely and have disapp eared. Two houses were washed into trees at the south end of the Connersville district. Two houses w( ‘re carried as far as.Durgee's Run and are caught fast in the debris there. Men in boats yesterday gathered up thousands of feet of new lumber in the neighborhood of Connersville and Durgee’s Run. Wilt and Ed O’Connor have ahsemblod enough new lumber to stock ant ordinary lumber yard.” The Domestic Science Club will meet in the library auditorium Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.