Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1920 — PECULIAR WRECK ON MONON RAILROAD [ARTICLE]

PECULIAR WRECK ON MONON RAILROAD

Southbound Monon freight No. 513 figured in a very peculiar wreck on Thursday night a half mile south of Limedale, as a result of a wooden superstructure having collapsed while engine 513 was passing over. The locomotive had just reached the south end of the stucture when the wood work gave way letting the front end of the engine plow into the bank while the south end rested on the rails. The entire superstructure beneath the engine was down leaving the greater part of the engine resting in midair. The accident happened Thursday night at 8:30 o’clock when the engine was pulling a freight train south. The wrecker from here and the one at Bloomington were called to the scene and were busy clearing the track and building another superstructure under the engine preparatory to placing it on the track. Engineer Marlow was at the throttle of the engine when the wreck took place and the train was in charge of W. B. Dodds, COndUCtOr. . „ T Monon passenger tram No. 4 arriving here at 3:37 a. m, was delayed two hours and No. 3 south bound passenger was delayed one hour and thirty minutes at the scene of the wreck. Both trains detoured over the cement works tracks, a mile south of Limedale. At a point where the accident took place the Monon railroad is constructing a big concrete arch under the main track and the concrete work had not started yet under the track on the main line. No one was injured.—Lafayette Journal.