Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1913 — An Interurban Collision That Was Startling [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

An Interurban Collision That Was Startling

CLEVELAND, O.—Nothing -startling happens often on the Lake Shore electric line except in eases where a car overtakes a polecat doing his favorite stunt of trying to follow 'the gleaming rails to their end on a moonlit night. But a few days ago the unusual did happen. A motorman and a conductor were taking an empty "special” from Rocky River to the yards at Avon Beach power house. Half way, they ran upon a siding to permit a regular car to pass. They failed to . notice that a heavy swarm of bees which seemed tp include all there were in the three surrounding tpwnships had

settled on the slender bough of a tree over the farther end of the sidetrack, bending it down. They took notice, however, when they collided with it. As the car came to a stop they were made aware of the fact, that there were some bees about. What had been a harmless looking mass became an angry and active enemy. Crawling through the transoms and ventilators, hundreds of bnes Invaded the car, looking for those responsible for the interruption of their housekeeping arrangements. The hunt was brief and successful. The motor-man sprang out of the vestibule and did a sprint up the track that would have made any winner of a 100-yard dash look as if he were standing still. The conductor did the same thing in the other direction. But there were more bees outside than inside and they made another dash' back, concluding that the interior of the car presented the less of the two evils. What those two men underwent while trying to smoke the bees out with a piece of burning waste it is better to draw the curtain over.