Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — Electric Speed. [ARTICLE]

Electric Speed.

Experiments were recently made at McGill College, Montreal, to discover the length of time required for a telegraphic signal to pass from that point to Greenwich by the Atlantic cable. Two hundred signals were sent, and it was found that the average time taken by the current to cross tbe Atlantic and back, a distance in all of 8,000 miles, was exactly one second and five-hundredths of a second. The wrecking of the Santa Fe passenger train near Osage City, Kansas, by robbers who expected to get $1,000,000 in currency that was in the express car, was the most diabolically deliberate wholesale murder which has been planned in any part of the country for a long time Shocking as were the resultant casualties, and exasperating as is the information that the wretches who did the deed got away, there is some satisfaction in the fact that they didn’t succeed in securing the money which had excited their cupidity.