Show CLOUDBURST MAY MAV Y STOP CONVENTION Chairman Bell Bel Speeding Over Country in Special H Hopes op es N Not Not ot HAS MOST STRENUOUS DAY Travels Mil Miles s in Hand Car to Reach Denver on Time TimeS S Today Today Neb cb July C. C G C. Theodore A A. Bell Del of California temporary chairman chairman chair chair- man luau of oC the lie Democratic convention which meets tomorrow in iii Denver last night mo ell heaven hea and earth to get getto getto to Lincoln to talk with W W. J. J Bryan over the running running of the he big conven lIon tion ton And Amid tota today he moved heaven and earth arth to get et out of Lincoln where liere he hea a was cau caught hl l by a cloudburst and prevented preVented pre pre- re- re vented from front proceeding to Denver to occupy the lie chair Tonight Mr lr Deli Bell after all al sorts of or adventures Is Js Hying ring across the prairies at the best speed a Rock Illan Island Inland trainhas train trainhas trainhas has ever ma made e between the lie Missouri river and amid tho the Rocky mountains That road load guaranteed to place ulace Mr Ir hell Bell Bel In Denver In time time- for fOl the opening of the convention and amid to do so a n special train consisting of a a single car cam a n locomotive tive an and tender Is flying along along at a n. hour fifty gait al Boll Bell Dol camo caine Into Omaha late last Jast night and und too took It a a Burlington train to t Lincoln 05 55 s miles mies distant Ten ren hours later he ho reached Lincoln During the night nl ht a cloudburst cloud elou cloudburst burst spread water all al over O central Nobl Nebraska No- No Lincoln water vate stood tood bl braska and around from ten to fifteen feet teet deep G Gold Ills 1115 11 Instructions cr r 1 h ru r- r u r If t Just Instructions nl a as to tO- wh nize an and amid when whet etc Boll Bell Dol started for or tho time Burlington depot But Bul there thero elo three feet reet of or water valor In the time Burlington ton depot dIot an and amul alt all 01 trains on omu 01 that road had been beon annulled No o moro more trains on this line lino lne toda today he lie was tol told by tho the agent Arrangements Arrange Arrange- ments wa mudo fo io io send Boll Bol out north where whore a a. connection with tho ho hoUnion content content- contemplated Union Pacific at Fremont was plated but as the tic train was pulling out there thelo came wor word that three wa oulon on that road would prevent pre trains front fron running Then Mr 11 Bryan got scared himself and tool took a n hand humid In the matter The Time Union was asked to runa run runa a special train to Is Us its main line but a the thc special succeeded succeed el In lii getting gelling only forced to re return return return re- re live l e titles miles when It I was sis wa turn to Lincoln A number of gaps had hind been made In iii the lie roadbed and ant there lucre was ns nothing nothing doing on the time Union Pacific The Missouri freight train was to send a out from om Lincoln and Bell DeJl got aboard ln to go no to a junction pol point wait for forthe the the Kansas Omaha City train It which reached Omaha Omaha at nt 6 G o'clock In Inthe inthe inthe the mourning morning and then lien take a Union Pacific to Denver But It was as found that the tho Missouri l Pacific line was under under un un- der tier water waler Gets Special Train A special train was run lUn from Omaha Omaha Oma Orna- ha o out t upon the thc Burlington to within ten miles medics of or Lincoln Bell secured a 0 mies distance ills dis team and anti attempted to drive tho ho tance hut but the mud was so deep that the tho plan was abandoned The he Rock Roel Island was called upon again and a special train was wa contracted contract contract- from front Fairbury Fair Fair- backwards ed for fOl to b bt be run rumi neat near Lincoln as asal was al lUV bury hury Neb Nob to a as possible This was to the lie west o of the breaks on th time the road and once that lint spot was reached tho time train could proceed on oil its way 01 Five Is big section hands hals were put aboard tho the little handcar Mr Be Bell and superintendent took their the railroad tho time places and the car glided down Rock Island tracks A milo mile out thero there was a wash 11 Mr Mm Belt Bell Bel and the time I superintendent waded through the tue water water wa wa- va- va ter the section men put the car cam on their shoulders and amid carried it I across the breach On the Uw other side the car cr the was ivas put hut on the tho lie tracks track and awa away These maneuvers were party part went went elS el'S continued at each break breal in the roa road and Just before dark after traveling the he sie special ten ton miles in u this manner train mies was reached At Rokeby y Neb wet wot tho time superintendent were Bell and to 0 DeJ the time sl skin ln and plastered with mu mud but they were made comfortable au on 01 the time malc and resource of or ortho energy train and ever every tho the Rock Island system Is bent on out 01 pulling pullIng pull pull- In time for lor In Ing tho the special Into Denver Denvor its Mr Mi 11 chairman Be Bell to open the tile convention as |