Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1906 — A Frightful Railroad Wreck. [ARTICLE]

A Frightful Railroad Wreck.

One of the most fatal railroad wrecks that ever occurred in this state, and perhaps the most fatal, occuired early Monday morning in Porter county, near Chesterton, and not more than 50 miles north of Rensselaer. The second section of an immigrant train on the Baltimore & Ohio collided with a freight train, and the cars of the passenger train being old and poorly built, went all to pieces, thus killing and wounding a great number of the passengers, and the wrecked cars then all took fire, and the killed and injured were burned up together. The exact number of the dead is not] yet known, and probably never wilFbs, but is now thought to be about 50. Some 38 others are injured, some of whom will die. The dead and wounded were nearly all Poles and Russians, who had just arrived in this .country.