Show CAR IN MIDDLE OF TRAIN JUMPS TRACK overlooked remarkable accident Is the third of its kind in history of amerl can railroading acs Sl olnes iowa the third accident of its kind in the history 0 american railroading occurred on the rock island lines near iowa D A abbott division superintendent here said A car in the center of a long freight jumped the tracks and rolled down an embankment without derail ing cars either in front or back of it each section of the train was stopped by the setting of brakes as the fir line was broken and the train crew went back re coupled the cara without the one car in the ditch and went on to newton there the conductor wag informed of a report made by a west bound train crew that a car was in the ditch and a check showed it was the one oat of hla train the only other accidents of athla kind on record were one 20 years ago on the union pacific near grand island lebr and the other between butte and helena mont on the great northern in july 1022 |