Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1912 — Trespassers Killed on Track. [ARTICLE]

Trespassers Killed on Track.

A report on the general subject of trespassing has recently been issued by an eastern railroad company. Its police department, during the year 1911, spent more than SIOO,OO on its campaign against trespassing, or nearly one-fifth of the total cost of maintaining the company’s police force. In the efforts of the company’s agents to enlighten the public on this subject and to enlist the Interest of magistrates and other local officers, attention is being given more especially to these trespassers who are not to be classed as tramps—wellmeaning people who use the railway tracks as thoroughfares. In the statement on this subject which has been given out by the company, It Is said that on American railways In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, the number of trespassers killed was 5,284. and the number injured was 5,614. That Is to say, there are more people killed In this way on the railroads than from all other causes combined.