Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1890 — CLOSE ESCAPE FROM A FEARFUL WRECK. [ARTICLE]

CLOSE ESCAPE FROM A FEARFUL WRECK.

Delphi Journal. The Motion accommodation due in this city' at eleven o’clock at night, from Indianapolis, had a narrow escaped from a disastrous wreck at the “High Bridge,” over Deer Creek, near this, city Tuesday night. The train was pulling along toward Delphi at its usual rate of speed, when from some cause, three cars jumped the track. Luckily no one was injured, but the passengers, who were on the rear end of the train, were as near scared to death as any set of travelers that ever footed it into Delphi The cars jumped the track within a few feet of the south end of the bridge, and the excited passengers could not help thinking what a shaking up they would have received had the cars waited to jump until they got on the bridge, and then taken the bridge and the rest of the train down with them. The bridge is 78 above the water, and as the splashing and gurgling of the stream came up through the darkness Tuesday night it caused “goose flesh” to stand on every individual who was on the train. It is difficult to ascertain the cause of the wreck. The debris was cleared up in a short time, and soon trains were running as usual.