Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24

sense and nerve to run on the outer side
of the road, close to the edge of the
! canyon, thus giving myself as broad a
turn as possible. found by the tack
of the wheel afterwards that at the
sharpest turn | had actually ridden
within three inches of the extreme edge
for several rods, where, if l had been
going at less fearful speed, tire wheel
would certainly have slipped over the
edge, and carried me down fall of one
thousand feet.
Safely past this, the worst point, the
| remaining curves were easy. Thus far
| there had been no time to think. My
actions were more instructive than rea-
soning. My mind was wild, confused
whirl of sensations and fears.
But now, as / shot down the last steep
incline, suddenly experienced terri
BILE mental shock. 1t was caused by
hearing the tinkle of a bell far below,
and seeing the spark of a lantern such
as the mine teamsters carry in front of
their wagons. There was team, per-
haps train of teams, coming up the
road. In a few seconds | should be
upon them. The shock made me think,
and that clearly. If the teamster was
walking beside this team. he would be
on the inside, next to the mountain
wall. and the team would be in the
middle of the road. If he was riding,
the team would be kept near tie mount
ain wall, and safe distance from the
outer edge of the track. Either way
my best chance was to pass on the out
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close to the outside edge of the track,
and flew by in safety, hearing the team
ster shout as did so. Here it was
lucky that | was going at such great
speed, for the teamSter saw the red
light of my lantern when was nearly
a mile distant, and, recognizing it. he
started his team toward the outer edge
of the road, so as to give me the safest
passage on the inside; but / was upon
and past him before the team could be
driven over, otherwise | should have
surely ran into them.
And now the wheel ran along the
level at the bottom of the mountain;
still my frightful velocity did not per-
ceptibly diminish. | ran out past the
works, and into and along the village
street. Luckily the street was covered
thinly with sand-not enough to make
it bad riding, but sufficient to gradually
stop a coasting wheel. My speed slack
ened pcrceptibly. Still l ran nearly
through the village, and then managed
to turn a broad corner and run up the
slope of a side street, which finally
checked my speed so that venturcd to
drop my feet cautiously and take the
pedals, after touching them as they
came up for a number of revolutions, to
help to check the machine.
And 50 l finally stopped and leaped
to the ground exactly in front of DR..
Cameron's house
On mounting at the mine-housc !
had looked at my watch after habit l
had; and now, from the same habit. |
looked at it again. / was not aston
ished to find that | had made the nine
miles from the mine to the doctors in
a few seconds less than thirteen min
utcs. Allowing six and a quarter for
the first two miles before the brake
gave way, and l must have made the
last seven miles in less than six and
three-quarter minutes. | firmly believe
that covered seven miles in less than
six and a half minutes, incredible as
such speed seems Chicago Tribune.