Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1909 — 2,500 MILES IN 64-HOURS [ARTICLE]

2,500 MILES IN 64-HOURS

Trains Make Time In Race With Death. Burlington, VL, Feb. 19.—A race with death across the United States from El Paso, Tex., to Burlington, was finished when Dr. H. Nelson Jackson arrived at his wife’s bedside and greeted her after a sixty-four hour trip over more than 2,500 miles of rails. The rup from Chicago to this city was made in a special train, the distance of nearly 1,000 miles being covered in twenty-one hours.