Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1906 — WRECK NEAR KENTLAND. [ARTICLE]

WRECK NEAR KENTLAND.

Rensselaer was not the whole thing last Sunday in the way of railroad wreck attractions. A freight train on the Chicago, Indiana and Southern was wrecked just north of Kentland Sunday and conductor Fred Case suffered a broken leg. Six loaded oil tank cars and a number of freight cars were piled in a heap and their contents caught fire from a hot box. The oil spread over the tracks and debris and along right* of-way for a quarter of a mile and burned furiously for twelve hours. The wreck train called during the afternoon was caught in the blaze and nearly destroyed. One thousand people from Kentland and the surrounding country visited the scene during the fire. .