Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-30
REMARKABLY FAST RUNNING
Notable Achievement in the Annihilation Of
Time and Distance.
UNION PACIFIC BREAKS ALL RECORDS
Mail Train brought from Cheyenne to
Council Huns, $40 Miles. in 559
Minutes, including
All stops.

Save for a few railroad officials q news
paper man and small number of passen-
gers waiting for Chicago train there was
scarcely anyone about the wooden sheds
called the Omaha Uniou depot last evening
shortly before 6 o'clock to see the finish Of
one Of the greatest races against time ever
made across the plains OF Nebraska. In or
der to catch the eastbound mail from Council
Bluffs over the Burlington, the first section
OF the Union Pacifc's Atlantic express con-
sisting OF an engine and two mail cars was
hurried from Cheyenne to Council Bluffs in
the remarkably short time OF nine hours and
nineteen minutes. II was q run Of 519 miles
in BOG minutes and, taking out the time for
changes OF engines and other necessary stops,
the run averages considerably better than
mile a miuute
| II was a grand run, and will be marked
down on the books Of the Union Pacific with
I the other runs that have been made on tina;
route but like Abou Ben Adhem 1t viii lead
all the rest Ii is a noteworthy incident
/ that the last trip OF the run was with loco
motive No. 500 the same engine with which
Engineer Thomas Grogan made his luog dis
tance run from Evanston. wyo.. to Omaha
/ uct, end was turned out of the Omaha shoes
about six months ago. Since that time it has
. done little else but break records. Il was
sent out TO Grand Island on Sunday uight
/ with freight train No 10 and there was no
special preparation Of equipment or men for
& fast run.
FIVE HOURS LATE.
| The run was brought about by the delay
Tf,air Np Iptr yY,,p nv,
the burning out of q bridge. The delay
amounted to five hours and thirty minutes.
Yesterday morning when the train pulled into
! Cheyenne it wRs just FIVE hours late. AS it
was necessary to have the mail in Council
Bluffs by 6 O'Clock last evening in order TO
escape the payment OF heavy fine to the
! governments postal department, the two mail
cars were cut loose from the rest of the train
and orders were given from local headquar-
! ters "to come right along"
! With the big locomotive No. 1873. in charge
of Engineer Reid, the two mail cars were
time yesterday morning. The run to Sid
ney, Neb., distance of 102 miles, was made
in exactly l07 mioutes. Engines were changed
at Sidney and several minutes lost. The mail
cars left Sidney back of locomotive No. S41,
I
tie, at 9:21 a. m. and arrived at North Platte.
Neb,. AZ 11:19 q. m, mountain time, having
made run OF 1913 miles in 11S minutes, in-
Guiding stoo of two minutes al Julesburg
for the Colorado mail.
| Out Of North Platte the mail hustled at
2:2S p. m, central time, back of locomotive
| Nc. SIG, with Engineer Frederckson. 1t ar
rived at Grand Island at 2:57 p. m, having
made the 13S miles in 154 miuutes. This
| time included a stop Of three and one-half
| minutes at Lexington, where there q
| stop fer water and change of engineers. En-
| gineer White made the run from Lexington
! to Grand Island, seventy-seven ana one-half
miles, in eighty and one-half minutes. in
cluding stop of two minutes ~ Kearney.
ALL RECORDS LAID OUT.
The run from Grand Island to Columbus
was a wonder. With the new Omaha en-
CINE No. $50 aud Engineer Dickson the run
| from GRIND Island TO Columbus, distance OF
| BiXty-two miles. was maze In tlfty-tlree
/ minutes. The arriving time at Columbus
/ was at $3.50 p. m. The mail was delayed at
! Columbus five minutes on account of the
! bursting Of q tank hose. The departure from
! Columbus was at D. and the arrival
at Fremont was at 4:42 p. N. The mail got
! out Of Fremont at IA p N and went sail
ing past Valley at 4 :55 p. m. Elkhom was
passed at 5:0S p. m. and Papillion at 5:23
! p. N. The run OF five miles from PapiIlion
| to Gilmore was made in five minutes.
| The run of 100 miles from Grand Island TO
| Ames was made in ninety three minutes in
| cluding 4 fve-minute stop al Columbus or
! in eighty-eight miuutes actual running time.
! This broke all previous records over that
| strip of track
! Engineer Dickson now saw that he was
going TO land the mail at Council Bluffs in
ample time to avoid the payment OF any fine
| by his company and he began to slow down.
| There d delay al Gilmore 'by the Mis-
| souri, Pacihcs semaphore and the run through
soulh Omaha and the yards leading into
Omaha wcs made very cautiously. II was
twilight the time when most accidents hap
pen ana it's hardest for engineers TO see, and
Dickson was keeping his watcl out for train
No. g. bound west.
HESITATES ONLY AT OMAHA
1t was just 5;42 when the train pulled oto
the Omaha depot, Ordinarily the train comes
to full stop to discharge and receive its
| mail But the mail was thrown of and the
eastbound mail had been sent across the
bridge already. The train merely hesitated
and then jumped across the big bridge ahead
OF the Milwaukee express, landing the mail
at Council Bluffs at 5:47 o'clock with thirteen
minutes to spare and only Iweuty minutes
behind schedule time.
Engineer Dickson, Conductor Goodrich and
the others connected with the train said ttat
much faster run could have been made
had there been an intention 10 make rec
ord A great deal fes.er time would have
been made had there been four cars instead
OF two attached to the train. With the Ehort
train it was Impossible TO stop within a mile
and ii was therefore necessary to slow down
on approaching many points,
With the time for the many stops taken out
the run averaged about sixty-two miles an
hour from Cheyenne TO Council Bluffs trans
fer.
Recover Scottish Clan Money.