Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1918 — Train Strikes Wagon Of Household Goods. [ARTICLE]

Train Strikes Wagon Of Household Goods.

A train at Kersey struck a sled loaded with the household goods of Prof. Hickner, of Valparaiso, who was moving from there to DeMotte. Saturday. The team got stuck on the railroad crossing and could not move the load. ’ The driver saw the danger in time to unhitch the team, bqt a passing freight train struck the load and scattered the household goods along the track for quite a distance, badly damaging the goods.