Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-11
BREAKS ALL RECORDS
FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC IN
THREE DAYS TIME.
Record of Most Remarkable Long
Distance Run in History
of Railroading.

when the Lowe special tram relied
into Los Angels at / :: 6 .. m.
Henry P. Lowe, chief engineer of
the United States Steel Company,
left New York Tuesday afternoon,
August 4, at 2 As, Immediately upon
hearing Of his daughters fatal i'll
ness in the distant California city of
Los Angeles. Catching the Twen-
tieth Century Limited over the New
York Central and Seashore railroad
he raced westward to Chicago at ali
average speed of 48.8 miles per hour,
arriving in Chicago on Wednesday |
morning. Hurrying from Lake Shore
to the Santa Fe depot in cab which
was being held in waiting for him,
the anxious father boarded the spec
ial and was outward bound twenty |
three minutes after reaching the
Windy City" Composed of coach
and hotel-car "Rocket and drawn
by powerful iron greyhound, with
Engineer Duggan Mt the throttle, the
Santa Fe special leaped into the race,
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 rush.
Swiftly rising TO the level OF the ele
waited roadbed. it was off on its way
toward joliet before this grief stric k
en- passenger had had time to settle
down for his long ride. In his anx-
iety to cover the ground in the short
est possible time, Mr.. Lowe repeated
ly urged that the speed be increased.
For a great share of the distance he
rode in the engine cab, and the
rumble and Ioar of the mighty
locomotive soothed, in a measure, his
troubled mind. Faster and faster the
giant ten-wheeler flew. Faster and
faster the local way stations flew by
the windows in an indlstinct blurr.
Crossing the state Of Illinois n a
space of time heretofore unequale !,
the special rolled across the Mississip-
pi at Fort Madison, clipped off sec
ton OF Iowa, crossed the state of Mis-
souri,, bridged the broad Missouri
river and rolled into Kansas City
Over the rolling prairie land O
Kansas and on toward Colorado
climbing the ever increasing grade a
the Rockies were approached, TIL
special not only maintained the seized
ule laid ont for it, but kept gaining
with every mile 1t few.
La Junta was reached at 80 a. m.
August 6, and veering toward th
southwest the special split the soil
tude of the Colorado and New Mex
leo wilderness, plunging into Albu
querque at :37 p. IN. From Albu
querque straight west, crossing til
mesas of New Mexico and Arizons
surmounting the range of the Glori
eta mountains, the train reached Sc
lyman in western Arizona at a. II
August Z. Leaving here it climbe
the Williams range and entered I'll
Golden State across the Colorat
T1VeT. AL w y, IL Oll AANH
August :, the train rolled into Il
Angeles ten hours ahead of the sche'
ule as originally planned. the di
lance from Chicago to the Paciti
coast having been covered It an ave
age of 1913 miles per hour. havil
beaten the time of the Santa Fe
California Limited by fifteen hou
and sixteen minute. While he W
still this side of the Rocky mountai
it was known that Mr.. Lowe
daughter had passed away. Messag
were hurried ahead of the special.
the wires were down, the sad wo
was not received by Mr.. Lowe IN
he had reached Las Vegas. In sp
of his disappointment, however, n
Lowe expressed his gratitude to
Santa Fe officials who had tried
the utmost TO assist him in
trouble 1.-The time made by
Lowe special is an achievement
which we are justly proud, 81
Passenger Traffic Manager Nichols
of the Santa Fe. "Our only regret
that the extraordinary speed could
avail Mr.. Lowe as lie hope /
might This crossing of
American continent in seven
three hours and twenty -one N
utes established record for the ira
continental trip that will not be s
passed for many days to come. w
it is considered that the time
brought down to this remarkably
figure only by extraordinary sp
on the level prairies and the br
table lands, some idea of the trem
dous strain may be gathered.
long distances a speed of consider
less than mile a minute was m
tanned. The route from the
sissippi to the continental divide
upgrade, with much steep noun