Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1899 — Had Quite a Wreck. [ARTICLE]

Had Quite a Wreck.

At ten o’clock Monday nigh, as freight train No. 74 from the south pulled up at the depot, a large section of it, which, unknown to the front end, had broken loose some place back, ran into the front part of the train with great force. The result was that three flat cars loaded with stone and two big empty refrigerator cars were badly wrecked. The wrecking train from Monon was sent for but it was not until one next morning before the tracks were clear, the wrecked cars having blocked both the main and the side track. The three flat cars and one of . the refrigerators were not wrecked beyond repair, but the other refrigerator was largely reduced to kindling wood, and what was left in one piece will be dragged down the tracks and burned up, some time today. It is said that some 12 or any other old number of tramps were riding on the train, mostly in iron sewer pipes on flat cars. None of of these were hurt, so far as known, but all have good grounds so! suing the railroad company for breaking their sleep.