Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — BROKEN BAR BLOCKS TRAFFIC [ARTICLE]

BROKEN BAR BLOCKS TRAFFIC

Monon Freight Wrecked at Surrey Tuesday Noon. Extra northbound Monon freight No. 500, enroute from Louisville to Chicago, was wrecked Tuesday noon at Surrey, when an arch bar on a boxcar loaded with phosphate broke. Two cars left the tracks, one being loaded with live stock. The juunibo wrecker came up from Lafayette and had the wrecked cleared by 5 o’clock the same afternoon. The wreck delayed traffic about five hours, northbound passenger train No. 6 detoured by wuy of Monon and San Pierre, thence over the N. Y. €. to Shelby, where it took the main line to Chicago. The air line fast train from Chicago to Indianapolis detoured by way of Hammond to Wilders, then over the Michigan City branch to Monon and thence to Indianapolis. Passenger train No. 38, from Indianapolis to Chicago, detoured the same way.