Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — MONON TRAIN DERAILED. [ARTICLE]

MONON TRAIN DERAILED.

Passengers Shaken Ip, But None Seriously Hurt —Accident at Kllettsville. Bloom tug ton, In d., Novemher 25. —Although four sleepers and two coaches left the track from Moron train No. 2, a fast south-bound mail, due here at 3: 32 a. m., at Elle.tteville shortly before 4 o’clock this morn-

ing, no one was seriously injured. All the passengers were badly shaken up, however. Carl Snyder of Joliet, 111., reports an injured kuee. Jhe train was traveling thirty-five miles an hour, when it split the switch. Not a car fell to its side and not a window was broken. Conductor Richard Strain and engineer Frank Kaiser had charge of the train. 1

The engine and tender passed over the switch in safety but the wheels of the baggage car forced open the switch and derailed the rest of the train.

The wrecking crew was sept to the scene of the wreck -from Danville and a relief train was made up in Bloomington. Many of the passengers were Chicago men, bound for French Lick and West Baden springs and the south.

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