Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — A PAIR OF “NEAR” WRECKS [ARTICLE]

A PAIR OF “NEAR” WRECKS

South-bound passenger train No. 33 due here at 1:58 p. m., was in trouble Wednesday and did not reach here until about 5 o’clock. About two miles northwest of Rensselaer the engineer discovered that a journal or boxing of one of the axles under the tender had burned out. and the train was tied up until fin engine could be sent from Monon., The two afternoon trains had to be sent around over the Michigan City division. Thursday the north-bound Cin-cinnati-Chicago train, due here at 10'105 a. m., was sidpswiped by a L. E. & W. train at Frankfort and the mail and baggage cars were wrecked. The train was wto and one-hajf hours late ' passing through Rensselaer. No one was injured in the former wreck., but the expressman was slightly skinned up on one arm and hand in the latter.