The story of our nation, from the earliest discoveries to the present time ..together with a graphic account of Porto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippine islands .. . A HUNDRED YEARS OF PROGRESS. 275 Itmust be fun to go through the black tunnels, along the narrowroadbeds with the overhanging rocks above your head, and around andaround mountains, when you have to go ten miles to get ahead one !cried Josie scornfully. But think of what you would see ! protested Ray. Did you ever think that, by this railroad, the shortest route to. INDIANS WATCHING THE FIRST TRAIN ON THE PACIFIC RAILROAD. India
The story of our nation, from the earliest discoveries to the present time ..together with a graphic account of Porto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippine islands .. . A HUNDRED YEARS OF PROGRESS. 275 Itmust be fun to go through the black tunnels, along the narrowroadbeds with the overhanging rocks above your head, and around andaround mountains, when you have to go ten miles to get ahead one !cried Josie scornfully. But think of what you would see ! protested Ray. Did you ever think that, by this railroad, the shortest route to. INDIANS WATCHING THE FIRST TRAIN ON THE PACIFIC RAILROAD. India was found, Mamma Nelson ? Just what all the old discovererswere hunting for! exclaimed Ruth. [1871] I think 3^011 are right, was the smiling answer. What hap-pened in i87i? The great Chicago fire, with a loss estimated at $300,000,000, whichdestroyed the homes of ninety-eight thousand people. At the same timeterrible fires were raging through Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan,and many people thought that the end of the world was surely coming. 276 A HUNDRED YEARS OF PROGRESS. In Greeu Bay, Wisconsin, the sun looked like a ball of fire for more thansix weeks, and the city was barely saved by a terrible thunder shower,which came up against the wind that was driving the fire upon it. Of over two thousand inhabitants in the little village of Peshtigo,not more than one-fourth survived, and the bodies of wild and tameanimals, and human beings, were fifteen feet deep at the sluice-way, when
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