Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — Famine in Freight Cars. [ARTICLE]

Famine in Freight Cars.

The famine in freight cars has reached a crisis in the Pittsburg district and the situation has become so bad at the Homestead mills of the Carnegie Steel company that it is claimed a shut-down will be necessary if some relief is not given soqn. The company has been compelled to pile orders upon orders until 3,000 tons of plates now congest the mill yards. The freight agents of the local yards say that they are' getting as fast as they can. '