Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1919 — EMPLOYES OF MONON FIGHT MARSH FIRES. [ARTICLE]

EMPLOYES OF MONON FIGHT MARSH FIRES.

the marsh fires of the past few days in the vicintty of Newland on the Chicago & Wabash Valley division of the Monon, have caused the railroad authorities to make a fight to arrest the spread of the fires. The land where the fires are in progress is muck land and the fires burn deeply and create what the section men term “smoke fires” on account of the heavy smoke floatto*a call for help a train left here at 4 o’clock yesterday morning made uo of four tank cars containing Tronf 60,000 to YU,UUO gallons of water each to quench the smoldering muck along the right of way of the road. This was used yesterday and a number of tanks filled with water were sent to the locality from Monon. An extra gang of men was sent from St. Johns to fight the fire, which started from sparks falling on the muck ground from passing engines.—Lafayette Journal.