Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1912 — Unnecessary Railroad Fatalities. [ARTICLE]

Unnecessary Railroad Fatalities.

“Stop. look both ways, listen, and don’t walk along the tracks,” are Injunctions that would, in the light of recently published statistics, materially reduce the number of fatalities on the railroads, if carefnly observed. The majority of the people killed by accident are classed as "trespassers” Of 10,396 killed on the railways In 1911, 6,284 were trespassers. In ten years the totsil number of deaths by accident was 61,089, of which only 4,340 wers of passengers.