Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1916 — Snake Stopped Express. [ARTICLE]

Snake Stopped Express.

A large snake held up the Monon railroad’s fast passenger train, the Hoosier Limited, for ten minutes at Dyer, near Hammond. The snake, one of the largest ever seen in that vicinity, crawled into a switch box and cut off the electrical connection that made it possible to operate the switch from the interlocking tower. When the trainmen investigated they found the big snake fast In the switch. It had been stunned by the current and was easily killed. The snake, it is believed, crawled from the Kankakee swamp to the tracks and wriggled Its way Into the switch.—-Indian-apolis News.