Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1900 — An Incident of the Excursion. [ARTICLE]

An Incident of the Excursion.

People of Rensselaer and vicinity are always liberal patrons of the cheap trips to Chicago, and despite the half thousand or more who visited the city during the G. A. R. encampment, there were 195 tickets sold here for the special train; Sunday. The trip was without any special incident worthy of note, except that in coming back a young man from Frankfort named Burns, being, at the time, quite drunk, fell off the train between Hammond and Chicago* He was picked up by a freight train, and placed again on the excursion train, which lost two hours looking for him. He is said to have been still unconscious when the train passed Rensselaer, but if so mainly from whisky as his injuries were only slight bruises. The return train did not reach here until four o’clock this morning.