Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1916 — 15-Foot Snake Holds Up Monon Flyer 10 Minutes. [ARTICLE]

15-Foot Snake Holds Up Monon Flyer 10 Minutes.

Lafayette, Ind., June 19. —A snaki, fifteen feet long, stopped the Hoosh r Limited, the Monon’s crack passe ger train, for ten minutes last nig t at Dyer. There were a number of Lafayette and Indianapolis passengers on the train and they all veri y the story. The snake had crawh 1 into a switch box and had cut off ti e electric connections making it impo <• sible for the interlocking tower mu to operate tihe switch. The curre t had stunned the reptile and he cou d hardly move; The snake wandered to the railroad tracks from his lair in the Kankakee swamps. The snake was pulled out, killed and measured, the result being the announcement that it was fifteen feet long. This is the first case reported here of a snake holding up a train. Conductor John Reid and Engineer Clifford Somerville of Indianapolis were in charge of the train.