People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — Freight Wreck Fear Lake [ARTICLE]

Freight Wreck Fear Lake

Eight loaded cars of a north bound extra freight train left the track on the Louisville. New Albany & Chicago line Tuesday morning near Cedar Lake. All traffic was suspended for the day. The first mail train to arrive passed through Rensselaer at 11:20 p.m. No mail w’as received at Rensselaer during the day from either direction, and Postmaster Honan had a double amount to handle Wednesday morning. The passenger trains were sent over the Chicago & Erie line from Hammond to Wilders. So far as can be ascertained no one was injured in the wreck.

Mrs. Laura and Miss Minnie Martin of Winona, Minn., who have been visiting M. F. Chilcote’s family, left on the sth for Parkersburg, West Virgina, where they will continue their visit until about Sept. Mrs. Cornelia V. Adams and her invalid daughter, Miss Edith, of Winfield, Kan., are in town visiting relatives and friends. They have besn guests the past week of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Hopkins.