Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1904 — RECORD RUN FROM CHICAGO. [ARTICLE]

RECORD RUN FROM CHICAGO.

What is considered the record run from Chicago to Indianapolis was made Monday by Mbnon engine No. 301, hauling five coaches and a baggage car, in three hours and forty-six minutes, actual running time. The train was a special, carrying Chicago Elks to the convention. The engine was run by engineer Jim Murphy and fireman Charles Martin. It left Chicago at 10:04 a. m., but was delayed twenty-five minutes by a derailed freight car. Fifty minutes were consumed in running from Chicago to Hammond, only twenty miles, but the distance from Hammond to Indianapolis, 164 miles, was covered in 176 minutes, with nine stops on the way.