Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — Freight Train, Collide. [ARTICLE]

Freight Train, Collide.

Two heavy Clover Leaf freight trains collided on a sharp curve in the center of Trilla, a village nine miles south of Mattoon, 111. The trains were running at a rate of twenty : five miles an hour when they met. The engines telescoped and with twelve freight cars rolled down an embankment, completely Wrecked. The men on the engines leaped tn time to save their lives. The damage to rolling stock wa. over $50,000.