Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1913 — Sleeping Cow Caused Wreck. [ARTICLE]

Sleeping Cow Caused Wreck.

A sleeping cow caused the derailment of a passenger train on the line between Newport and Cowes, England, a few days ago. On rounding a curve the driver of the train saw the cow lying between the rails. Before he could pull up the first part of the train had passed over the cow. Then came a large bogey carriage with less space between it and the rails. It rocked from side to side, tfcen ran off the line and ploughed up the permanent way for two hundred yards before the train came to a standstill.