Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1909 — RAT CRIPPLES CAR SYSTEM [ARTICLE]

RAT CRIPPLES CAR SYSTEM

Puts Power House Out of Business by Crawling Across Wires. San Francisco, March 9. —A rat demoralized the street car service of this city for a short time, put a power house out ot business and left his own body a carbonized connection for 16,000 volts of electricity. * When repair men investigated the cause of a mysterious shutting down they found only a bit of carbon in the chape of a rat’s body.