Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports Free Mm Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. ENGINE CREW FORCES DRIFT Monon engine No. 505. crewed by Leo Goodman, engineer, and Cecil Gordon, fireman, arrived Monday night from a freight run over the northern division. Between Hammond and Monon the big steel, horse battled with a snow drift twenty-two feet high, where the engine would back up and Uke i smash at the drift and kept on doing so until bit by bit it plowed Its way through. Fred Bryant, road foreman of engines, was on the engine and participated in the battle against the elements. Goodman said Gordon say it was the worst expert- j ence they ever had on the road. The big engine yesterday gave evidence of the bout with the snow and ice.j The running parts were clogged with .; ice and the snow was packed over the pilot of the engine nearly., up to the smoke stack.— Wednesday’s Lafayette Journal.