Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — Steam Safer Than Horse Power. [ARTICLE]

Steam Safer Than Horse Power.

The proportion of accidents to travelers in France has been greatly reduced since the slow diligence has been superseded by the steam-driven rapid car. When horses were the motive power, one traveler in every 385,000 were killed, and one in every 30,000 wounded. The returns show that nowadays one in 5,178,490 is killed, and one in 580,450 fa wounded. .... •