Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1914 — TRAIN DESTROYED BY BURNING BRIDGE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TRAIN DESTROYED BY BURNING BRIDGE

While running at a speed of 53 miles an hour, and immediately after rounding a curve that prevented the engineer from seeing tne danger, a limited train, bound from the Pacific coast to Chicago, ran into a burning bridge a few miles south of Winona, Minn. Owing to the fact that the bridge was only partly burned, the locomotive and baggage car passed over safely, but the first car behind the baggage car was derailed. The train immediately caught fire from the

burning bridge with the result that five of the coaches were destroyed. The locomotive and baggage car were safely out of the fire, and the three rear coaches were saved only with the greatest difficulty. It is said that the financial loss to the railroad company, will exceed a quarter of a million dollars. The remarkable feature about this unusual accident was tnat no one was' killed, although several of the passengers were severely injured.— Popular Mechanics.