Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — Cheap Human Life. [ARTICLE]

Cheap Human Life.

It is a lonesome day in Chioago when a street car is not run down by a railroad train.—Buffalo Commercial. Collisions between street cars and railroad trains are getting to be in the nature of an every-day occurrence in the W'orld’s Fair city.—Des Moines Leader. * A street car filled with passengers was run down in Chioago the other day and several more victims added to the list of those who have fallen on the grade crossing. * The grade crossing must go. —Kansas City Journal. Chicago does well to getupa World's Fair for the purpose of attracting people from outside in 1893. If railway trains keep crashing into her street cars at the present rate her population will be pretty sadly thinned out by that time and will need rooruiting.—Milwaukee Wisconsin. In Chicago, a horse car, a red-h>t stove and thirteen passengers were struck by an engine. The oar was reduced to kindling-wood and took fire, but not a passenger was killed. And yet people will go right on insisting that thirteen is an unlucky number.—Springfield Monitor,