Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1906 — TRAIN WRECKED. [ARTICLE]

TRAIN WRECKED.

Going North At a Speed of One Flile a flinute. NO ONE IS REPORTED L: KILLED But Traffic is Delayed Several Hours By the Blockade. “ s ' The north-bound train going through here at 5:37 a. m., was wreckked near the milk station, about three miles north of Fair Oaks, probably caused by the spreading of the rails. When the train left Rensselaer it was about four minutes late, and was going at the speed of one mile a minute. The engineer and fireman both escaped without injury, except being shaken up pretty badly. The engineer climbed out the door on the top of the engine, which was turned over on its side when it left the track on the west side. The baggage car and all the other cars except two sleepers, jumped the track on the east side. The rails weere all twisted out of shape and one went up through the cor'ner of the baggage car and turned it over on its side across the track. One waman passenger, whose name was not learned, was reported badly ininjured. Charles Grow of this city, the mail clerk, was thrown from one end of the car to the other, but caught on some rings and received onlya few scratches on the head. The train was drawn by one of the new engines that the Monon company recently purchased. There were about fifty passengers on board, and the train going at such high speed, it is strange to say no one was killed. Doctors from here went up to the scene of the wreck on the freight engine about 730 this morning.