Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1916 — PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED AT FRANKFORT [ARTICLE]

PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED AT FRANKFORT

No. 32 Ran Into Open Switch This Monday Morning—No One Was Injured. Monan passenger train No. 32, due here at 10:36 in the morning, was wrecked south of the depot in Frankfort this Monday morning at about 8:45 o’clock. The engine, mail car, baggage car and combination coach turned over and the day coach left the track. No one was injured. It is believed that thi switch had been thrown open by something dragging on the last train south before the wreck. The train ran into the open switch and was derailed. Two wrecking crews were working on the wreck but it will probably take all day to dear the track so that trains can pass. In thfr meantime, the trains are being detoured by the Vandalia from Frankfort to Colfax, thence over the Big Four to Indianapolis.

A friend hands us a clipping from a Kankakee newspaper which tells of the finding of a body of an infant at Beaverville, 111. It was wrapped in oil cloth and-paper and tied w‘th a string. A string was tied tightly about the infan’t neck, leaving no doubt about that being the method of the murder. The paper wrapped about the child was a copy ,pf the Indianapolis Star of Dec. 19th. It is believed that the child was thrown ,from one of the car windows along the Big Four railroad track. It :s not believed that the baby was born on the train but that the child had been strangled soon after birth and that some one had bundled it up and taken it on the train and then thrown it from the window. It was a girl baby.