Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1920 — FIRE FOLLOWING WRECK DOES $75,000 DAMAGE [ARTICLE]

FIRE FOLLOWING WRECK DOES $75,000 DAMAGE

Lafayette, Ind., Sept 21.—Fire destroyed ten car loads of merchandise valued at more than $75,000 early today in a freight wreck on the Monon railroad at Lee, a. small station north of here. A southbound extra was on its way to Lafayette when a journal burned off and resulted in a pileup. Hie biasing journal set-fire to the inflammable contents of it and the Are soon spread to the entire wreck.