Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1887 — Another Wreck on the Monon. [ARTICLE]

Another Wreck on the Monon.

Arch ip Grubb, the section boss, and his crew started out Monday morning on their hand-car and had got a little beyond Pleasant Ridge, and were running at something above their usual schedule time of 17 miles in four hours, and an tra head of steam registered on, the gunge, when they suddenly found themselves within about a hundred feet of the engine of a freight train, whichjwas coming up the track at the rate of about 20.. miles an hour, and which had not been seen before, owing to the. heavy fog then prevailing. There was no time to stop the hand-car and there was nothing for the hand-car men but to jump and “let her go, Gallagher,” which they fdicLnot even trying to save &h»Tr 1 dfriher buckets, which were upon the car. l’he result was, a draw-ing-room hand-car knocked into smithereens and several bars broken from the pilot of the freight engine. The men were unhurt, but their dinner buckets were badly demoralized. A poet-office has been established at Hogan’s station, in Walker tp., and Peter Hoffman, a saloonkeeper, appointed post-master. The name under which itjias been established is Kniman, and if- a prize had been offered for the ugliest name possible, Kniman would have come out ahead. It is a good enough name for a post-office kept in a saloon, however. The Department was first asked to call the office Niman, but that was denied on account of its similarity, when written, to another post-office in the state, and therefore the petitioners changed the spelling but not the pronunciation of the name by prefixing to it a K, this changing it to Kniman.

JO3. L. Sapp and Mamie Stwan, Iwth fate 1 residents nrfjfey ton tp., and the latter the only child of John Stwan, late justice of the peace in that township, were married early Monday morning, in the Surveyor’s office, in the court house, by the Old Squire.-—The young couple then joined tne parents of the bride and are now with them; upon their long journey to Washington Territory.