Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1920 — ROSSVILLE SCENE OF MONON FREIGHT FLOP [ARTICLE]

ROSSVILLE SCENE OF MONON FREIGHT FLOP

One of the most disastrous freight wrecks that has occurred on the Monon railroad in several years happened at Rossville Sunday mo™ing when 15 cars on manifest freight No. 90 piled uu just north of the depot The train was traveling at the rate of 40 miles an hour, when a car loaded with steel billits broke down. Fifteen cars in the rear of it were hurled on aH sides of the track and the track torn up for a distance of 500 feet