Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1914 — A Series of Accidents Belay Monon Trains Wednesday. [ARTICLE]

A Series of Accidents Belay Monon Trains Wednesday.

South bound Monon freight train No. 73 was derailed at Lee Wednesday night and as a result the track was not open to traffic until about 8 a. m., Thursday, delaying for several hours all night and early morning trains, which passed through Rensselaer about 8 a. m. Owing to a hot box on the mall car on north bound No. 6, due here at 3:39 p. m., another tie-up of trains and delay of schedules for a couple of hours resulted. It was necessary to set off the mail car here and transfer the mail to the Hoosier Limited. The milk train did not get in until nearly 8 o’clock that evening. Over at Monticello a team of horses belonging to Ray Hefner of that city, took fright at a passing train and ran down south and east over the Monon tracks onto the high bridge over the Tippecanoe river, where they fell in between the cross-ties with the wagon piled up almost, on top of them. One horse was so seriously injured that it had to be killed, and the south bound train which passes here at 11:20, was delayed sor 1 some time while the. horses were being removed from the bridge. . And the train running between Monon and Indianapolis, known as the “Plug,” while waiting for No. 31 to pass it Thursday morning, the pipes of the engine became frozen and it took more than an hour to thaw them out so that the train could proceed on its way.