Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1913 — ENGINE VIOLATES ROAD RULE [ARTICLE]

ENGINE VIOLATES ROAD RULE

Number 6431 Misses Trip Owing to Stop Made at Saloon In Cleveland. Cleveland. —Engine 6431 did not take the Big Four passenger train to St. Louis because it stopped off at P. S. Berry’s saloon on West Eleventh street on its way to work. Railroaders on the Big Four are not allowed to patronize saloons* on duty, so 6431, having transgressed the rules and lost out on its run, just stayed in the saloon. No. 6431 couldn’t come out anyway without the three-story brick building falling in. Finally the engine was yanked out by another locomotive and the saloon building fell in a heap of wreckage. John Kilroy was injured and taken to the hospital. His wife and daughter were thrown from their beds and slightly hurt.