Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1912 — RAILWAY KEEPS UP PATROL [ARTICLE]

RAILWAY KEEPS UP PATROL

White River Continues to Rise and Officials Are Watchful. Hazleton. !nd„ March 29 White river reached the twenty-one-foot stage, risin" four inches' in twentyfour hours. The Wabash Is stationary at 15.2 feet., Lower Knox county between Hrt7ieton and St. Francisville is flooded frrm two to six feet, but no trouble i* bad in keeping in touch with the flood-bound by the use of gasoline launches’ The O. #1- E. I. embankment here is being retread dav and night, the railroad company- fearing a repetition of the washout cf 1897. when a train went into a new’v dug river channel and ten lives w r re lost.