Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1881 — Freight Cars Wrecked. [ARTICLE]

Freight Cars Wrecked.

Elkhart, Ind., December 20. A terrible wreck occurred this morning on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad just west of this city, caused by one freight train running into the rear end of another, while at full speed, aud utterly demolishing several cars. No livee lost.

A brief history of the Female Reformatory of this State says: “All the female convicts in the Indiana penitentiary were turned over to Sarah Smith, a philanthropic Quakeress, seven years ago, for the purpose of -testing kindness a? a means of reformation. Success is claimed forthewexperiment. Two hundred women and girls are now under Mrs. Smith’s care. They are required to perform certain work, from which they earn their own support, and they are kept within an enclosure, but there are no stone walls, dark cells, barred windows, nor aimed guards, Eight women assistants are All that she requires to control these prisoners, and severe pynishibents and deprivations are unknown. It has been proved, says an official report, that 80 per cent, of these convicts are so far reformed that on release they begin to lead reputable lives.”