Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1911 — CITIZENS TAKE UP TRACK. [ARTICLE]

CITIZENS TAKE UP TRACK.

Seymour Men Turn Out at Night and Move Switch From Park. Seymour, Ind., April 17. Three hundred citizens early Sunday morning took up four hundred feet of railroad track and removed it from the City park here. The night workers repelled both the night police and the fire department and the work w r ent on to the end. Several days ago the Seymour Manufacturing Company and the Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeastern Railway Company slipped in and laid the track in two hours. The citizens’ response to this action and to the city council’s hasty grant of the switch privilege was the raid d£ day morning. Injunction p'rX ceedings will follow to the use of the city park as a railroad yard. * I f— , a