Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1883 — More Wrecks on the L. N-A. & C. [ARTICLE]

More Wrecks on the L. N-A. & C.

The Monon Route is having an extraordinary run of ill-luck lately. About two trains have been wrecked, every week, upon an average, for several weeks. These accidents have not, so far as we are aware, resulted from.any particular fault in the management of the road, being such as are liable to happen to the best conducted companies. Last week a freight engine run into an open draw on the Calumet, above Hammond, and thus threw all trains out of time for a day or two; and on Friday morning, on the Air Line branch, the morning passenger train stfuck a broken rail, about two miles fiord Monticello, throwing , the engine and baggage car from the track and completely demolishing both. The engineer was buried under the wreck, and so badly scalded that it is thought he cannot live.