Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1901 — A COSTLY HOLE. [ARTICLE]

A COSTLY HOLE.

The/ Monon Having Trouble at Cedar Lake. The Monon has been experiencing considerable trouble at a sink hole just the other side of Cedar Lake the past week. Some time ago during the straightening of the road the track was laid across this sink, but it is only In the Hast few months that it has been giving trouble. Piling was drove down to the distance of 150 feet and hundreds of car loads of dirt liaß been dumped into the hole, only to be swallowed up. The piling had nearly been covered with the dirt, when last Saturday it began sinking and Sunday the trains could no longer run over it. It waß more by good luck than anything else that a bad accident did not oocur. Rails were relaid on the old road bed. and trains began running as usual again Monday afternoon. When the railroad was first built a similar hole was struck on this side of the lake, which caused a great deal of trouble and expense at the time.