Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1911 — DYNAMITE OVER BRIDGE [ARTICLE]

DYNAMITE OVER BRIDGE

Evident Attempt to Wreck Big Trans-Mississippi Span. Station Agent at Thebes, 111., Finck Explosive Under Overhead Bridge Over Tracks. Chicago, Dec. 29 — What, may have been an attempt to destroy the Thebes bridge over the Mississippi river at Thebes, 111., came to the attention of the officials of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad company with the news of several children finding a quantity of dynamite with fuse attached among the timbers of an overhead bridge which spans the track approaches to the railroad bridge. “Our informant, C. W. Mogg, station agent at Thebes,” said W. J. Jackson, vice president of the Chicago apd Eastern Illinois railroad, “sent a message to me saying that fourteen sticks of dynamite with cap and fuse attached had been found by children beneath the wagon bridge. The explosive was in a position to threaten the tracks which are used by all ( our trains and had it been exploded would have wrecked the railroad bridge approaches.” Detectives for the railroad-Jconi-pany and also for the Southern Illinois and Missouri Bridge company are investigating the find.