Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — VILLAINOUS WRECKERS. [ARTICLE]

VILLAINOUS WRECKERS.

A desperate attempt was made Monday night to wreck the fast St. Louis and Chicago express, which leaves New York on the New York Central at 6p. m. The train was stopped for a danger signal south of Old Troy, which is five hundred yards south of the New Hamburg drawbridge. Two minutes previous the flagman had discovered several ties standing endways in the curve near Old Troy, and when he took hold of one of them to remove it he was fired upon from the bushes on the east side of the track. Knowing that the fast express was nearly due, he ran southward and set the danger signal, which stopped the train. The flagman said the ties stuck up above the rails, and would certainly havethrown the train from the track. The fast train was composed of seven or eight sleeping-cars, all full; two ordinary coaches and a baggage car. There were eight ties on the up main track. There were also (wo ties placed alongside of the rail towards the south, so as to ditch the trsin. The flagman was wounded by the shot fired at him.