Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1913 — FREIGHT CARS OFF TRACK AT DEPOT [ARTICLE]

FREIGHT CARS OFF TRACK AT DEPOT

Three Oars of the. Local Freight Off Track and Delay of Several Trains Resulted. The northbound local freight train had considerable trouble here this Wednesday morning and held up four passenger trains while several cars were being pulling back on the track after jumping off and plowing along the ties and into cinders for a short distance. The trouble was started by a broken flange on a lumber car. That car went off the track but was put back on the track without great difficulty. The track had evidently been sprung, however, for as the train started to pull out three other ears went off at the same place. One of these was loaded with about 30,000 brick and it sank up to the trucks in the cinders and the “jumbo” wrecker had all it could do to place it on the track" again. The cars went off the track at about 8:30 o’clock and the track was not cleared until almost 12 o’clock and passenger trains Nos. 32, 5 and 37 and the southbound berry, special were delayed. Southbound passenger train No. 31, due here at 4:40 in the morning, also had some difficulty and delay, a drawbar pulling out.