Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1918 — FREIGHT WRECK STOPS TRAINS [ARTICLE]

FREIGHT WRECK STOPS TRAINS

Traffic Held Up 18 Hours Thursday by Wreck Near Lowell. A south bound fast freight train loaded with merchandise was wrecked 3% miles south of Lo.well at 1 o’clock Thursday morning, twentythree cars being piled up and badly broken. The wreck occurred on a straight track while the train was running at a high speed and the cause is unknown. All traffic on this division was tied up from Thursday morning until quite late Thursday night before the wreck was cleared sufficiently to let trains pass, passenger trains being detoured over the Erie road between Hammond and Wilders and thence over the Michigan City, division. No Chicago papers or other mail except a little in the morning Ifirom the south was received in Rensselaer during the day. The property loss will aggregate many thousands of dollars. The wreck occurred in the center of the train, it is understood, and no one was hurt.