four p.m.
A train was ready to start , and they had only just time to jump in ; though they had seen nothing of Omaha , they did not regret it , as they were not travelling for pleasure . The train rushed across the State of Iowa , past Conneil Bluffs , Des Morines , and Iowa city . During the night they crossed the Mississippi at Davenport and entered Illinois . Next day , the 10th , at four p.m. , they reached Chicago , which had risen from its ashes , and , more proudly than ever , was seated on the borders of the beautiful Lake of Michigan . They were still nine hundred miles from New York , but there were plenty of trains . Mr. Fogg passed at once from one train to another , which started at full-speed as if it knew he had no time to lose . It crossed Indiana , Ohio , Pennsylvania , and New Jersey like lightning , through towns with antique names containing streets and tramways , but as yet no houses .