The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-09-19


anothes DlabolIcai Atsssps a. wreck :
Passenger Train m the New York Cen-
tral Railroad Thwarted ~ riueky
ack-Walkev. Who u shot from. Am
cush for 1sts rsins-A Had Holster for
Waning Cause.
ALBANY. y. T.. Sept :. The SIX
o'clock train out OF New York due here
ct ten minutes o. ten o'clock tonight
was fifty minutes late. and a. this
train Is usually on time IL looked su~
picioua II is intimated that block
ade intended 10 wreck the train was
discovered by track walker at New
Hamburg. and the train was tagged
just in time 10 prevent q serious acci-
dent General Passenger Agent Wolfe
says that no word has been sent 70
him III any such occurrence. but admits
that the train was late without any
known cause The United Press re-.
porter could not find any passengers
who came up on the train. The block
ade. il is said. consisted OF steel rails
and some old railroad iron Division
Superintendent Bissell was not at his
Office. but his assistant said that no
word OF the attempted wreck had been
sent him
LATER AT half-pastclev o'clock .
passenger at the depot was found who
had talked with the trainmcn on the
belated train. His story was highly
sensational. and was 70 the effect that
at point called Old Troy. new Ham
burg. the train was stopped 80 quickly
that the passengers were thrown from
their seats. There was great excite
ment. the people on the train believing
that there was another accident The
cause. however. was the appearance OF
trackman with red lantern and
with blood streaming from . wound in
his shoulder. The engineer said he
heard several shots fired and then say
the man. When the track-msn could
speak he said that there was an obstruc-
tion on the track. and a searching party
soon found pile Of ties laid across and
braced from be hind with pieces OF rail
road iron. The obstruction was re.
moved and the train proceeded with .
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT lot OF passen.
gers.
The above story was shown to rail.
road officials here, but they refused to
say whether il was true or not
A railroad empioye Who was on tho
train was found later and tells another
version and probably the true one. Hs
says that two men out rowing on the
river near that point saw some men
busy on the tracks and waiting until
they disappeared they crawled quietly
up. They found steel rail wedged in
the cattle-guard in the same way as at
Albany and braced up in the same way
by pieces Of fiange iron. With all their
strength they could not move il and
started down the track toward the
Chicago limited express. They met .
trackman and he. swinging his red
lantern started to stop the train In an
instant several shots rang out and ono
took effect in the trackman's shoulder
However, the train was stopped about
ono hunured yards south Of the obstruc-
'tion. According to the description Of
rhe barricade 1t was Of tho same build
- the one near Albany on Thursday
night
How the Obstruction vac Placed
ALBANY. N. ". sept .. ESQ = m
"A ol1cial report just received shows
that the obstruction was not placed like
the one at Albany. There in culvert
was jammed seven heavy ties These
tiles were placed 50 that their bats
pointed towards the approach hing train
and II the engine had struck ii the ties
would only have been driven in harder
and the train would have gone into the
river The obstruction was not re-
moved at midnight and the trains were