Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1916 — MONON ENGINE IS BLOWN UP [ARTICLE]

MONON ENGINE IS BLOWN UP

Passenger Train Passing Through Rensselaer at 11:17, Has Engine Blown Up Near Bedford. " t. Two train men were thrown 75 feet and seriously injured Thursday when the engine boiler of the Chicago to Louisville Monon train No. 3, exploded at /the top of a heavy grade near Bedford. The train was automatically brought to a stop. Fireman Johnson was thrown 75 feet over telegraph wires, and landed on his head in a fence comer. Engineer Zissell was badly scalded and thrown into an adjoining field. The passengers cars included the French Lick sleepers and the U. S. mail oar. The train was an hour late. The. accident happened two miles north of Bedford. The train, southbound, leaves here at 11:17 a. m., and changes crews at Lafayette.