Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1917 — TRAIN STALLED BY BEAR [ARTICLE]

TRAIN STALLED BY BEAR

Held Up In Pennsylvania Woods for Half Hour by Bruins—Engineer Has Scare. Johnsonburg, Pa. —A log train on the Dalioga & Highland railroad was held up for a half hour by two large black bears south of Highland. The log train was moving slowly up the hHlside when Engineer Johnson discovered the two bears, weighing about 300 pounds each, - standing on the track a few hundred feet ahead of the train. As the train approached the spot they failed to move. Johnson pulled the bell cord, but the clang of the bell or the blast 'of the /whistle failed to frighten the bruins, who stood and gazed at the approaching train. Knowing that It would be Impossible to kill the bears at the speed hls heavy train was moving up the hill, and fenring an attack If he Injured them, Johnson stopped the train, and badly frightened, watched the bears for about half an houx, when jthey slowly wandered off Into the forests.