Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1913 — Limited Struck a Truck. [ARTICLE]

Limited Struck a Truck.

In Marshfield, 111., a .careless baggageman left a truckload of cases containing empty soda water bottles too near the track. There was a crowd of people on the platform waiting, for a local passenger train lying in the yards until a limited passed through. When the limited came Along the mail clerk reached out with a big crane for the mail sack banging on a rack above the station platform. The crane ripped into the truck load of bottled, th*-ew them In. a welter and haze of broken glass, all over the platform. Two waiting passengers were struck by flying cases and very nearly killed.