Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1910 — MONTICELLO IS TALKING OILED STREETS. [ARTICLE]

MONTICELLO IS TALKING OILED STREETS.

A representative of the Standard Oil Company was at the city council meeting Tuesday night presenting the advantages of street* oiling. The council was favorably impressed ahd will send a committee to Goodland to see how the plan works there. Mr. G. W. VanAlstine and some of his neighbors on west Broadway had already bought ten barrels of oil with a view tp experimenting on that thoroughfare. The oil is said to be not only a dust layer, but a road builder, acting as a cement on stone Streets. . One oiling lasts a whole season. —Monticello Herald. :

AN EXPENSIVE WRECK. The Rensselaer section gang assisted in clearing away the wreckage in th,e Sunday morning passenger and freight wreck 1 south of Lowell, and it was not until Wednesday afternoon that the big passenger locomotive was gotten back on the tracks, « most sad looking specimen of a locomotive. The wreck was a very expensive one for the Monon, and had it occurred a short distance further north would likely have caused a number of deaths, as she engine and all the qpaches would undoubtedly have tumbled down the embankment, which is perhaps ten feet high a little further north. Where the wreck occurred there was not much of an embankment, and the big engine did not topple over, thus saving the engineer and fireman from almost certain death. Its nose was almost completely buried in the sand and gravel of the roadbed on the west side of the rails. The mail and baggage cars were thrown on their sides and pretty badly wrecked. Several carloads of junk from the wreck was lying on the sidetrack at Lowell Wednesday, and the visitors to the congressional convention from the south end had a good opportunity to view the havoc wrought. The milk train, on which the delegates returned, was held up at Lowell for an hour by reason of the wreck train which was getting the passenger engine back on the rails. -