Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1916 — Off and On the Track. [ARTICLE]

Off and On the Track.

At an interlocking switch dear Wb» nona, a freight train was usin* the switch'and had just cleared th» crossing when a St. Paul freighC crashed through the derail. The engine bounded off the rails, rani 50 feet on the ties, struck a guard rail* and leaped back on the main track.. Seventeen cars behind it performedl a like feat, and when the train finally] was stopped only one car was off thaf rails. i