Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1902 — A HEAD END COLLISION. [ARTICLE]

A HEAD END COLLISION.

Two Passenger Trains Badly Bumped at Monon. There was quite a passenger train wreck at Monon, Wednesday. The trains involved were the sooth bound milk train, and northbound No. 30, due here at 6:22 p. m. The latter train was standing still but had stopped a little too far to the west, so that when the milk train oame along, and was switched off to take tbe y traok for Lafayette, it caught a corner of the No. 30 engine. The milk train was going at sufficient speed, when it hit the other engine, that it knocked that whole train back 40 feet. Both engines were derailed, and badly damaged. * * An ash man was under the engine of No. 30, oleaning the ash pan. He was dragged along with the engine, and considerably braised and battered, but not seriously hurt. Several passengers were more or less bruised.

The milk train was delayed only a few minutes, but No. 30 was delayed until 9 o’clock, and then had to go around by the Miobigan City division. The stock train north did not get through at all.