Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1900 — Had Quite a Wreck. [ARTICLE]

Had Quite a Wreck.

There was a head-end collision between two Monon passenger trains; at Monticello Sunday and which did considerable damage and narrowly missed being a good deal worse. It was between the train which

passes here, south at 1:45 p. m., and the cne due here, going north, at 2:57 p. m. Sundays, and 6:32 p. m. week days. It occurred near the end of the switch; at the east side of Monticello. The south bound train was moving slowly, but the north bound train, though slowing up, was still at pretty high speed, 20 to 25 miles an hour, perhaps- Both engines were very badly damaged, and that on the south train is reported as totally ruined. All the engine men jumped and escaped except Engineer Covington, of the north bound train, and he had a Eg broken.

The passengers in the north bound train were terribly shaken up, and some were cut and bruised, but none were thought to-be severely injured.

Rev. Father Schill, of the former Indian school here, was on the north bound train, and says it was almost miraculous that no more of the passengers were injured. The shock threw him 10 feet and all the other passengers equal or greater distances. It broke the windows and lamps in the passenger cars, and in the dining car it smashed everything. The crash when the trains came together was heard all over Monticello. The south bound train was late, and a misunderstanding of orders caused the collision. The wreck blocked the main track, but left tile side track ,clear, tso that no great interruption to trains occured.