Altoona (Pa.) Dispatch to New-York American.
    Passengers in the observation car on the rear of a New York and St. Louis limited, over the Pennsylvania Railroad; were treated to an exciting race between the train and a big black bear to-day.
    As the train came round the Horse Shoe Curve, Bruin ambled down off the mountain and stopped in the road which leads to Altoona, paralleling the Pennsylvania's main line for some distance. Seeing the train coming toward it, the bear turned and fled cityward as fast as its legs could carry its great bulk. Passengers crowded to the rail for a better view. The bear had a good start and made fast time, but the limited left it in the rear.
    For a mile the passengers watched the unequal speed contest, applauding Bruin's efforts. Flag-Man W. C. Wynkoop saw the last of the bear about two miles outside the city's limits, and it was still running. Wynkoop and Capt. John Tressler, an old bear hunter, started for the mountains in search of the bear after the train arrived here, but failed to find it.

Source:

Unknown, "Bear Races Express Train," The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Thursday, 3 January 1907, p. 6.