Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1891 — An Appalling Total. [ARTICLE]

An Appalling Total.

The statistics recently published by, the Interstate Commerce Commission on the casualties of railway employes furnish a most impressive argument in favor of the adoption of every device known, to decrease the hazard of life and limb to those engaged in railroad work. From this report it seems that the reported number of employes killed during tho year was 1,973, while the injuries reached the appalling total of 20,080. To these may "bo added tho thousands of which no reports were made. The minimum aggregate, then, of 22,000 casualties involving injury to life or limb shows tho hazard of railroad work and the absolute necessity of lessening them.