Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1917 — May Get Shot If You Stand On the Platforms. [ARTICLE]

May Get Shot If You Stand On the Platforms.

Passengers on many of the roads have been instructed not to ride on the rear of passenger trains or to stand in vestibules of the coaches. They are liable to beishot by some of the state militia guards who .are on watch at ithe various railway 'tunnels, 'bridges and other places as might be damaged by an explosion caused by some alien enemy. No passengers will be permitted on the observation platforms of the limited trains. Orders have been issued by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois and Wabash railways, and probably will be by 'other roads in the near future. The "plan uf"using”thc ‘rear platform to drop a bomb upon a railroad structure or in a tunnel might be successfully carried out 'by an alien enemy, after all other means of 'aiming access to a bridge had,failed, and the authorities are not taking any chances. 7#= “