Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — Libby Prison is Wrecked. [ARTICLE]

Libby Prison is Wrecked.

A dispatch from Maysville, Ky., says that the freight train.-which was transporting the famous Libby Prison from Richmond to Chicago was wrecked seven miles east of there, Monday, by the breaking oi an axle of one of the cars. The remains of the war relic were profusely scattered abont and people flocked to the scene all day to secure old bricks and lumber as momentoes. No one was hurt.