Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1914 — Mail and Train Service Tied Up by the Snow. [ARTICLE]

Mail and Train Service Tied Up by the Snow.

Monday night was another severe cold one, and the government thermometer at St. Joseph’s college got down to 5 below zero. All trains on the Monon were late Monday and some did not run at all. The northbound early morning train from Indianapolis, got in about 7:30 that evening, but all other north-bound trains on the Indianapolis division did not run Monday at all, the milk train being all that run north on the Louisville division. All trains being south, no southbound trains were run after the 11:05 Louisville train Monday night, and no Chicago papers were received here yesterday morning, the milk train being the only train running until some time yesterday forenoon, when one of the north-bound trains due here Monday afternoon went through about 15 hours late. It was said that the track on the Indianapolis division was drifted about 6 feet deep for nearly a mile down about Rossville, and it was impossible to plow through it. On the Louisville division no train could get further south than Crawfordsville. Probably all trains will be running as usual today, however.