Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1906 — IS THIS TRAIN “HOODOODED?” [ARTICLE]

IS THIS TRAIN “HOODOODED?”

Train No. 36 Is Wrecked Again.-No Lives Lost But Several People Are Injured. The early morning train from Cincinnati to Chicago which passes through Rensselaer without stop at about 5:30a. m., was ditched by a broken rail Wednesday morning six. miles north of Frankfort. The engine and baggage car passed over the broken rail in safety but the smoker, day coach and chair car were piled up beside the track. None of the many passengers were killed, although several Frankfort people enroute to Chioago to the fat stock show were quite badly hurt. Mort Mason of Indianapolis, conductor of the train, was also bruised considerably. This is the third wreck this train has bad in the past five months, including one north of Fair Oaks last July and the wreck here last August. While the financial loss to the railroad has been thousands of dollars in wrecked engines and broken cars, no loss of life has oocurred at any of these wrecks, nor no one heretofore has been badly hurt, which is moot remarkable considering the completeness of some of the wrecks. People who believe in “signs” will begin to think this train is “hoodooed.”