Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1907 — HAD A BIG CROWD. [ARTICLE]

HAD A BIG CROWD.

Sunday was a pleasant day, and about every able-bodied man, woman and child in Rensselaer was out to see the railroad bridge removed east of town and see the big Sternberg dredge cut through the Monon’s right of way. The work of removing the bridge was begun right after the milk train went north in the morning and was not so big a job as that of removing the piling on which tbe bridge rested. With the help of the dredge's big dipper and digging about the piling to considerable depth, however, this was finally accomplished and about midnight the cut was made and the dredge had passed through. All trains went around by Wilders until the bridge was' ra.placed, and the first train to pass over was the 8:30 p. m., train Monday. As the cut is not so deep from now on the dredge will make good progress if all goes well, and it will not be long until it reaches town.