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Show TRAIN FLIES AT 92-H1LE CUP Bat for All That the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Limited Was Late and Had to Give Rebates Re-bates to Passengers. CHICAGO, March H. Thirty-four passengers pas-sengers on the Pennsylvania Railroad company's elghteen-hour train reached this city nine hours late yesterday, after af-ter varied experiences, Including the receipt re-ceipt of a rebate of 5 each fom the railroad company for Its Inability to "make" Its schedule. The train due at 8:65 o'clock in the morning reached Chicago at 6:65 in the afternoon. It came over the Panhandle route from Pittsburg and caused some excitement through central Ohio and Indiana. In-diana. There are no elghteen-hour flyers In that section of the country, and there was a crowd at every station to see the train go through. The troubles of the flyer began sixty miles east of Pittsburg, where a freight wreck was encountered. The train, which had been spinning along at an average speed of fifty-two miles an hour and touching eighty and ninety miles, began to move along a mile at a time, with the result that for twenty-five miles there was left behind a torchlight process slon of blazing fuses, accompanied by torpedoes, the measures of safety being taken to prevent a rear-end collision. The train reached Pittsburg in the midst of the rising waters. When ten miles west of Pittsburg It began running through water eighteen Inches deep. Ahead was a stretch of five miles of still deeper water, and It appeared the train was going to be floated away, for the water wa-ter waa rising rapidly. In a few minutes a second engine had been called for, and the train was pulled back to Pittsburg through twenty-five Inches of water. At 4: SO o'clock In the morning. Instead I of 11:40 the night before, the train started start-ed west over the Panhandle route. The flyer crept along over the safe track practically on a schedule of Its own, disturbing dis-turbing freight traffic along the entire route. On the last stretch of track a speed of ninety-two miles an hour was made. But the trip was made In twenty-seven twenty-seven hours Instead of eighteen. |