Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1904 — Given No Warning. [ARTICLE]

Given No Warning.

The train was an hour late at the time of the accident and wns running ten miles faster than Its regular schedule. There were no reversal lights In the track and the run being a clear three-mile straight line at this point the engineer had nothing to warn him of his danger. Charles Corneau, station agent, said that the wreck was the result of malicious mischief. He said the north track, as that siding is called, had not been used during the day, and It was plain that the switch was tampered with. Not fifteen minutes before the accident the third section of passenger No. 19, south bound, passed over It safely. But when No. 11 was derailed there the switch was turned and the lock lying on the ground beside It.