Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-15
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Account Of Most RsmsFkablsL Long, Dis
8 = lance Ron in, History Of Rail. ..o.7
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All previous records for railroad
time from Atlantic to Pacific coast
were broken on Friday. August I,
when the H.. P. Lowe special rolled
into Los Angeles over the Santa Fe at
l:O6 p. m.'' '.T,i. ,.:-Ho z~,. .,:,tp~
-9Henrv P. Lowe, of the Engineering
Company of America, left New York
Tuesday afternoon, August 4, at 2:45,,
Immediately. upon hearing OF his
daughters lia2u fatal illness in the distant
California Al t3 city OF Los Angeles. Catch
ing the Twentieth Century Limited
oser1ihe New Y ork1 Central and Lake
Shore Railroads, he raced westw ard
to Chicago at an average speed of 48: 8
miles per hour, arriving in Chicago
on Wednesday. forenoon. Hurryine
from the Lake Shore to the Santa e
depot in . cab. which was being held
In awaiting for. him, the, anxious father
boarded the: :special and was, outward
bound i twenty three omindtes,2 after
reaching cthes.s Windy Cityi''2 Com.
posed ofcoaeh and hotel car Rocket,
and drawn by 8 powerful iron prey,. rev,
]1tqf hoqnd, + ID, with Engineer Duggan at Tie
throttle, the Santa Fe special leaped
into the. race, with orders, to make no
stops except those to- take water and
coal and to change engines and crews,
Leaving Dearborn station, Chicago,
the train struck out toward the South
west, with whirl and q rush. Swift
ly rising to the level OF the elevated
roadbed, it:vas of On its7way toward
joliet before the grief: f:strickenn 8 y pas-
sepger had time to settle down for his
long ride. Indeed. it,can not be, said
that he settled down at all, for, in his
anxiety to cover the ground in the
shortest possible time, Mr.. Lowe re-
peatedly urged that the speed be in
creased, and for great share of the
distance be rode in the engine cab, the
rumble rum and roar of the mighty To-
comotive soothing, in a measure, his
troubled mind.
Easter and faster the giant ten
"hesler hew.a Faster and faster the
local way Stations wuizzea by the
windows in an indistinet burr Cross
ing the State of Illinois in space of
time heretofore unequaled, the special
rolled across the Mississippi at Fort
Madison, clipped off section of Iowa,
traversed the northern, part of the
State ct Missouri hridged,, the broad
Missouri river; and steamed into Kan
sas City Union depot. - ,c:s -
With scarcely halt in it's wild
flight IT. was off over the rolling prai-
rie land of Kansas and on toward
Colorado, climbing the ever-increas-
ing grade as the Rockies were ap-
preached, On and on, it. sped, not
only maintaining the schedule laid
out, but gaining with every mile it
few.
LaJunta was reached at 9:1O q. M,
August g., and veering toward the
southwest the special split the solitude
OF the Colorado and New Mexico
wilderness, plunging into Albuqu uerq ue
at 5:37 p. m. From Albuquerque
straight west, crossing the desert OF
New Mexico and Arizona, surmount.
ing the range of the Glorieta mount.
aims, the train reached Seligman in
western Arizona at 4 q. m., Aug.7.
Leaving here it climbed the Williams
range and entered the Golden State
across the; Golorado,riyer,sf
4 At los p. NJ. on Friday, August 7,
the train rolled into Los Angeles ter
hours ahead of the schedule as sorigi.
nally' planned, the distance from Chi.
Fcago to the Pacifc Coast e, ,265 miles
having been covered st al avveraeeeo 81
FE428 + Is q miles per hour, beating, the time
frof II the Santa Fe||s California Limited
by fifteen hours aad sixteen minutes,
10 Whileo heswasDstill this sside off, the
Rocky mountains, it was known ntha
fMro Love- d aughter had passed away
Messages we're ahuifffedt aResd OF I'll.
specIai.!" As5the wiress Wsssrrs d65Han,, d65a th,
sad word was nsot Er rrecei77eeddo fbb1I 81 M 1Mr
Lowe unthohe>had reachedII.as Vegas
tNew Mexico. -.2r am ,sidqteDeiidq
I In spite of his disapp6 Ointment, how
ever Mr. Lowe EXPRESSED his graft
ftude,f 70 the santa Fef ) ofiGtals zwho.ha
Fisd 81 f. the fit' ssfs1 aa III
F1Su o9}sroQ I2og GOOD eYsd .al ,ua ST
EsashHEhs time, made by the owe gpeeia
isotan aehisVement Oft which 5we, ar,
Justly proud; ;''lsaid Pssssnger Traff
Manager NfehoI oIson;f Of The sahtaote
"Our only regret is that ths EXIT fa0ar
dinary speedcou5a not avail MI. Low
fasrhe hoped it might.,''nO ,otno1oT
R6tTAis ctossing of! the american con
tanentf ino seeensylthree hours Gran,