Mount Baker Marathon on August 11, 1911.

[DaveSunRa]

Amazing funny story from HistoryLink.org.

Mount Baker Marathon on August 11, 1911.

 

[giggy]

when I was researching baker for a climb - I read that they finally had to stop this b/c people kept falling in crevasses.

 

[cbcbd]

"The first-place train was ready to leave when he arrived at Glacier station; he climbed aboard and took off all of his clothes for a massage as the train careened back to Bellingham. But as it rounded a corner near Maple Falls, local rancher Dan J. Loop’s 1,800-pound bull tore out of the shrubbery along the track. Train and animal collided. The train derailed; Haggard’s coach flipped over; the naked marathoner and his entourage spilled into the underbrush. As Haggard climbed out of the wreckage, he announced, “I am all right, but I am afraid I’ve lost the race.” "

"For their part, the people of Deming barbecued the bull that had hit Haggard’s train at a gala banquet in the young man’s honor."

Aah, the good 'ol days