Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1904 — Another Train Has Trouble. [ARTICLE]

Another Train Has Trouble.

The troubles lately experienced by the milk train, as related in these oolnmns, have been completely faded by the experience of the two sections of the late night train, of last Saturday night, which should have passed here about midnight. The trains reached Hammond all right, bnt were there held baok for a while by a freight wreok at Strathmore, a few miles south of Hammond. They finally started down the track on notioe that the road was clear. But when they reached the wreok, found the traok still blocked and backed np to Hammond, again. Four separate times was this move repeated, and eaoh time the passengers waved what they supposed was a last though far from sad farewell to Hammond.

Finally orders oame to get on the Erie tracks and ran around by Wilders, and the Michigan City line, to Monon. They bad got oat only about three miles from Hammond, and then about one o’clock in tbs morning, when their engine struck a farmer’s big wagon, with a bay rack on, at a road oroasing. The horses were killed, the wagon broken to pieoes, and tbe man on the wagon probably fatally hurt. The train stepped, pioked up the injured man ran baok to Hammond again, that making the fifth time the train left Hammond that night. Finally another start was made, and Monon reached a little before seven. The milk train was nearly an hour late, so that the Rensselaer passengers caught that and finally reached'home about 8:30 Buuday morning. F. A. Ross and D. B. Newels were tbe Rensselaer passengers. There were quite a number of Lowell people on the train also.

While waiting at Monon the paper train oame through from Chicago, showing that the traok at Strathmore was dear, and that they would have got through sooner by waiting still longer at Hammond. The man strnok by the train was named Geo. Long and iivtd at Dyer, or near there. He was considered fatally injured.