Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-24
RAILROADS SMASH RECORDS
All Lines Rush Their Trains Through OF
Unprecedented Schedules.
FRElGHTs BEAT OLD PASSENGER TIME
Everything, Including Overland
Limited, Must Give way TO
Relief Trains Going 20
san Francisco.

70 Denver made record runs. EACn Oh
six trains made faster time for the 1000
miles than the fastest passenger train on
the road. The scheduled time for No. 1
from Chicago to Denver is twenty seven
hours and thirty minutes.
The agent at Kenesaw wired to Superin-
tendent Of Transportation Dickenson that "A
train had passed. but 1t went so fast he
was unable to tell whether it was freight OF
passenger and could not report 1t. 1t was
one OF these relief trains.
These shipments showing their origin are
speeding over the Burlington to San Fran
cisco:
Norton, Kan, one car -four.
Alliance, Neb one car potatoes.
McCook, one car -four.
Holdrege, Neb., one car flour.
Seward. one car supplies
Exeter, ono car flour.
Hebron. lot flour.
Ashland, car supplies and -four.
Plattsmouth. 125 sacks -four.
Aurora, one car -four, meal and produce
Wiber, one car flour.
Crab Orchard, shipment clothing, etc and
provisions.
Tecumseh. shipment clothing and etc. and
provisions.
Broken Bow, one car supplies, etc.
Hastings, one car supplies.
Hyannis. lot supplies and clothing.
York, one to three cars supplies.
Falls City, one car flour.
Longmont, Colo, one car flour.
Oxford, one car supplies.
Cambridge, one car -four.
Franklin, one car provisions, -four, etc.
David city, one car flour.
Dorchester. one car potatoes.
|. Grand Island one car suDDIipS
Shipments from points in Nebraska and
Kansas are being forwarded to Omaha or
Lincoln for concentration and shipments to
San Francisco in carloads.
Procession over the Union Pacihc.
No hitch has yet occurred on the Union
Pacific in the continuous procession of
trains which that road is hustling across
the continent. All these trains are being
sent on passenger time and everything else
is forced to take sidings. For this reason
the Overland Limited was four hours late
Sunday night and the Los Angeles Limited.
due at midnight Sunday, did not reach
Omaha until $3.50 Monday morning. The
first loads which were sent out Thursday
were sent in baggage and horse cars and
when these were exhausted refrigerator
cars were used. It is estimated that at
present special train on the Union Pacific
may be found for every forty miles of track
between here and Ogden.
Two special trains from the Northwestern
were turned over TO the Union Pacific at
Omaha Monday. One is fifteen cars from
the Business Mems association OF Chicago
five cars OF meat, one rice. six cars of COM
forters and blankets. one crackers and
three Of dry goods. A train of thirteen cars
from the Evening Telegraph is the other.
Special Train of Meat.
A special train OF meat was loaded al
Cudahy's in Kansas City under orders
from the east and sent west on the Kan
sas division of the Union Pacific.
Two special trains were turned over
to the Union Pacific at Denver by the
Burlington Sunday and one train OF four
teen cars from the Rock Island
The Rock Island is taking two special
trains OF provisions over it's southern route
via El Paso.
! A special train OF quartermaste-'s sup
plies of seventeen cars from Jeffersonville
Ind. passed through Omaha Sunday.
Cudahy's loaded ten cars of meat Mon
| day morning on eastern orders and Omaha
had five more cars loaded
E. II. Hartman reached Oakland or
his special train Sunday at p. m.
! At o'clock Sunday morning the Cud
ahy Packing company received a rusf
order from the Chicago American and a
p. m. the cars were ready to be hur
ried on their way to San Francisco.
special trainload OF soldiers and hos
pital men from Philadelphia and othel
eastern points, with hospital supplies
went through Omaha on a special trair
Monday morning at o'clock.
| The Milwaukee made a record ruI
across the states OF Illinois and Iowa Sat
urday, when twenty cars OF provisions
were hauled in ten hours less than tn,
schedule time The train left Chicago Fri
day evening at o'clock and arrived II
Council Bluffs at 12:S7 Saturday. maxim,
the trip I'm eighteen hours. The regula
fast freight schedule is twenty-eight hour
between the two cities. Faster time ha
been made with these relief trains. bu