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train I was on.

I have forgotten to mention
a break-down we had out on the planes
about 40 miles east of Newton in
which a delay of fully an hour
was occasioned, all the passengers
got out and went to the forward
part of the train & saw the engine
which had an [excentric?] broken,
the brake was patched up after
a long time consumed by the
employes in trying to make it
resume its regular speed but it
only moved slowly after the accident
and the first town we
reached a telegram was sent forward
down the track requesting an
engine to be sent to pull the train
into Kansas City in time to meet
the northward connections, after a couple
hours of slow and patient tugging on the part of the
disabled engine the new engine arrived and soon
we were speeding on toward the East at a terrible [gate?]
and by the time we arrived at Topeka we had nearly
gained the lost time that was caused on the plains.
Following the course of the "Smoky Hill River" for
about sixty-five or six miles the road lay through