Interurbans of Northern Madison County
Interurban Information
Compiled by David L. Dwiggins
02-02-1920
A Union Traction car coming from Tipton at 6:30 p.m. jumped the tracks at Monroe Street and Harrison Street while negotiating the turn south. The car within just a few feet of smashing into the front of a store. Noone was injured and traffic was tied up for several hours.
03-15-1920
Explosion at the power house near the Union Traction repair shop in Anderson.
05-29-1920
I.E. Wilson, a well-known professor of Orestes, and daughter Orchid, met with what might have been a more serious accident than it was. At 7:00 a.m. this morning the Wilson's were in their car and did not see an interurban gravel train number 652 approaching from approaching Orestes Station and were struck. Mr. Wilson was knocked unconscious and was taken to the home of Dr. Joel Cook as was his daughter. Mr. Wilson sustained a broken left arm and Orchid was badly bruised but had no broken bones.
06-14-1920
Another traction car hits the rear coach of a LE&W passenger train at Alexandria.
09-18-1920
Mrs. Elmer Van Winkle of Elwood and Mrs. Todd Moore of Orestes narrowly escaped death in a collision with a traction car. The accident happened at the Halls Crossing when a field of high corn obstructed the vision of the driver. Mrs. Moore suffered a severe injury to her right knee and was badly bruised otherwise. The trolley was heading west.
09-21-1920
Gravel cars of the Union Traction derailed at the substation on West Monroe Street in Alexandria.
01-11-1921
Union Traction offers cash prizes of $15 and $10 to name the new interurbans.
01-27-1921
Traction car and automobile collide in Alexandria.
04-06-1921
Union Traction constructing livestock pens at Pendleton, Middletown, Winchester, and Summitville.
05-17-1921
North bound truck strikes trolley in Alexandria.
08-08-1921
The Marion Flyer hits a car at Berry and Harrison in Alexandria.
10-20-1921
Street car in a collision with a Big Four passenger train at 23rd Street crossing.
01-27-1922
Traction car and automobile collide in Alexandria.
04-17-1922
A tornado smashed, Madison county's worst storm ever, Orestes killing two in the town and two more just northeast and hundreds were injured. Interurban service was halted due to damages. The rails were impassable and damage to the lines would take many days to repair.
06-13-1922
A Union Traction Interurban and an automobile collide at Summitville.
07-29-1922
Union Traction Company employee commits suicide.
08-09-1922
U.T.C. motorman falls from car in Anderson and is in bad condition.
09-16-1922
Car and trolley collide at Starr's Crossing at same location that a man and woman were killed about ten years ago.
09-29-1922
Special interurban to take Alexandria Tigers to Kokomo for a baseball game and an Aviation meet, total cost $1.60 for the round trip.
10-03-1922
Union Traction Company to institute safety week.
10-10-1922
Traction cars decorated with safety slogans.
10-26-1922
Tipton man dead after collision with interurban in Richmond.
11-18-1922
Automobile hit by interurban.
12-06-1922
57.5 million passengers rode the Union Traction lines over 27.3 million miles of track with no loss of life over the last 3.5 years.
07-13-1923
Union Traction brakeman killed when crushed between two freight cars.
08-01-1923
Seven bandits hold up traction car and net $70,125 out east.
08-04-1923
Mrs. T.B. Campbell is made ticket clerk in Alexandria Traction Station.
08-27-1923
Traction wire sets tree on fire and sparks ignite a house fire at 1112 W. Monroe St. in Alexandria, the home of Louis Farina.
09-21-1923
U.T. and Nickel Plate disagree on the grade at Harrison Street.
10-01-1923
Five killed as Ford Touring car is struck by an eastbound traction passenger car at Rangeline Crossing. Motorman George Horton of Tipton was cut by flying glass and Conductor Russell Hahn of Tipton was uninjured. Two others were injured quite badly and perhaps would not live.
10-04-1923
Gravel cars derail.
10-12-1923
Two killed by interurban car south of Anderson.
06-16-1924
Automobile and interurban collide at Starr's Crossing north of Alexandria.
08-02-1924
Union Traction Company purchases new parlor cars from St. Louis Car Company.
09-08-1924
Union Traction auto-bus new parlor cars.
01-01-1925
The Union Traction Company is in receivership.
02-27-1925
Emil Johnson meets sudden death. Emil Johnson was killed at the U.T.C. crossing at the east edge of Orestes this morning when an eastbound freight smashed into his touring car. Mr. Johnson was a bit late and was in a hurry to make up lost time. Mrs. Johnson heard the crash and came running from their home nearby. Mr. Johnson died in her arms.
04-22-1925
Union Traction car hits car at Ingalls, 5 dead.
05-11-1925
Car and interurban crash with no injuries.
05-16-1925
Car and traction near Bluffton, 15 injured.
05-27-1925
Motorman burns to death at Louisville.
05-28-1925
Union Traction asks to operate busses in Muncie.
06-03-1925
Collision of traction cars at Cassville.
10-16-1926
Many persons escaped injury today as the 1:30 p.m. car for Tipton split a switch at Harrison and Washington in Alexandria as the car pulled from the station. The car was heading north and the front trucks cleared the switch and the rear trucks split east swinging the rear end around and snapping a telephone pole at the Rothinghouse Drug Store corner.
02-09-1928
Two youths stopped at the Nickel Plate Crossing and fell asleep on the adjacent I.U.T. tracks as the long freight train passed. A traction car came along tooting and ringing the bell but failed to awaken the boys. The motorman stopped the interurban and the conductor woke the boys much to their surprise.
03-28-1928
The freight house of the Union Traction Company enlarged at Alexandria.
04-07-1928
Union Traction Company car number 290 that killed Charles Colsher a week ago had been a runaway car before.
05-03-1928
The Indiana Union Traction Company announces that annual income is declining.
05-25-1928
An automobile and trolley collision in Alexandria.
10-25-1928
Indiana Union Traction Company to pave on Harrison Street.
12-14-1928
Due to new paving on State Road 28, new rumors are circulating that the traction line between Alexandria and Tipton will close.
05-06-1929
A passenger car on the Alexandria-Tipton interurban line split the switch at Harrison and Washington.
05-08-1929
Car and traction freight car collide at Fairview and Monroe in Alexandria. Motorman E.B. Leonard.
07-18-1929
A low wire on Monroe Street struck a Union Traction brakeman causing him to fall from the interurban.
07-24-1929
Indiana Union Traction Company may be sold today.
07-25-1929
Bond holders approve the sale of Indiana Union Traction Company.
09-06-1929
Two traction cars collide near the Union Traction Company freight house in North Anderson and two Alexandria passengers were injured.
10-03-1929
One hundred and twenty-five cars of the Union Traction Company were burned in a bonfire yesterday.
12-20-1929
A traction car left the track on North Harrison Street in Alexandria.
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