Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-11-08
A VERY FAST TRAIN.
THE STORY WHICH WAS TOLD BY
THE TIMID PASSENGER.

A Time When It seemed as II the Train
Got Scared at Something - Running
Through Rainstorm-Sunset in the
East.
a was lately on a train, observed the timid
passenger, that went so fast it was danger
Gus to loOi out of the window, as you were
likely to have your eycsight broken of and
carried away. Why, the very farmhouses
looked like the street of a village, they came
50 fast, and the hind car wheels touched tho
rails only once in a while, There was not a
particle of noise to be heard, because the
train got far ahead of it, anil people along
the track said the noise kept about mile
back, while the dust didn't have time to get
up and dust until the train had got far away,
and the way it then got up and busted was
warning. 1t just seemed as if the train had
got scared at something, and the passengers
all thought there was great danger OF the
coaches running over the locomotive. The
telegraph poles were not visible, and the very
sunbeams did not have chance to get in the
windows, and, of course, the shadow OF the
cars kept something like a mile and quar-
ter in the rear.
AHEAD OF THE sun.
sour watches got all odt Of time: as we
few west ward so fast that We got clear ahead
OF the sun, and if we had kept on at that rate
around the earth We would have been surely
a half a day younger, and if we had continued
going around we would have soon been in the
middle Of last year
The friction of the air took all the paint
off the outside OF the cars, and hats were
sucked up through the yentilators. II you
had dropped a book it would not have touched
the floor until 1t had reached the back Of the
car, while flies were dashed against the rear
end of the coach and killed.
"Of course the people could not see the
train at all, and were continually driving
into it at the crossings but they didn't know
nnv better before or afterwards. IL was
thought that lightning struck them, as they
didn't know what else it was and people
along the line said the train left tunnel IL
the air which did not fill up for half an hour,
while the air was hot from the friction. II
| you would foolishly point your finger out of
/ the window at anything it would be taken off
Is slick as a knife by the soiidilied air
THROUGH STORM.
1--WE went through a terrible rainStorm,
| but not a drop touched the train. 1t didn't
! get a chance and several bolts of lightning
went for Us, but fell short. The rear brake
man fell of the car, but the suction kept him
( following right behind, and they reached out
AMI pulled him in all right, but quite dizzy
! headed At one place a bridge had been
washed away, hut that did not interfere at
all, for we jumped the chasm and went on as
If nothing had been wrong.
The most wonderful thing about it was,
that night we witnessed the phenomenon Of
the sun setting i'll the east, a sight never be
/ fore witnessed, We had travelled SO much
ahead Of it. People living along the track
| maintained that it was cyclone that had
passed. and houses were unrOofed by the dis
turted atmosphere. The rapidity with
which we went was quite alarming, especially
when we were not in hurry, but catching
! bold Of the front seat and holding back with
all our might did not seem to do any per
! ceptible gool A man fired revolver at a
venture and hit a mule half mile up the
track That was the fastest ride ever took. N
A ". BelIaw in Detroit Free Press