Deseret Evening News | 1899-11-23 | Page 2 | Great Northern's Record

N to fio 1 1018 M Miles lUlu In ID IDne ne anti Thirty Minutes A In from St PAul lInn Nov 22 the Greet Northern claims the Ion for the fast fastest st run on n a north vestern railroad An n eastbound Greet Northern train was delayed fleer Lea Leev ellworth Wash by R a landslide In the delayed train was a seme important mall mail mallA mailA A special jelal train was wa made up of an en ear car and The snail man Wis III transferred l and the traIn started eat east Leavenworth Is several hundred milK miles west of Spokane In the meantime finding that the eastbound train would not reach katie another train had started on toward St Paul Fatal In order to nil the a aca ca So It became m altern a stern chase The fhe special lOut east from Spokane had a tart start of mIles The trIp of the pur pursuer to 10 Spokane miles was made Isi hI four our hours and thIrty minutes The best belt Urn was Wal made between Wilson and aDd Spokane io mil miles In one hour and thirty minutes The purser came cam up with tit the 1 at Mont having made up seven lIn hours houri of delay It ft wu waa the fastest long dl distance run made rade by a road the distance being 85 muse milN