Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1893 — TRAIN BLOWN TO PIECES [ARTICLE]

TRAIN BLOWN TO PIECES

By the Explosion of 433 Keg* of Gunpowder. At 8 o’clock Monday night an east bound freight train on the Pittsburg, Ft Wayne &, Chicago railroad, while running at a high rate of speed, one mile west of North Lawrence, 0., was blown into fragments by the explosion of a car containing 432 kegs of gun powder. The train crew escaped ndhurt, but the engineer, E. P. Calvin, and the fireman, Thomas McCann, were burned severely. The track was torn np for ICO yards, a hole twenty feet deep was made in the ground, telegraph poles were leveled, thirty cars were wrecked and the cab was stripped from the engine. It is rumored that several tramps oti ths train were injured.