Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1899 — A Wreck At Parr. [ARTICLE]

A Wreck At Parr.

There was a freight train wreck at Parr Friday night; It occurred to the second section of No. 74, the northbound freight, and happened in all respects just as did a wreck to the same train at Rensselaer, a few weeks ago. The train broke intwo, and when the front end stopped at Parr the hind end ran into it, with great force, and several cars were badly wrecked. The accident ocourred about midnight, and it blocked the track during the rest of the night compelling all trains to go around by the C. &A. to Wilders. The milk train next morning was the first to get through. No one was hurt at the wreck.