Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1913 — DANGERS SHOWN BY PICTURES [ARTICLE]

DANGERS SHOWN BY PICTURES

Railroad Hae Photographs Taken to Illustrate How Accidents Occur and May Be Avoided. -

A woman got off a train coming up from the south; she carried a baby in one arm and a suitcase and a bundle with the other. It was in the night and the platform was dark. As she started for the station lights, some distance from the platform, she tripped over one of the truck tongues and fell, seriously injuring both herself and the child she was carrying. For the purpose of showing trainmen and the general public the dangers that lie in thoughtlessness the management of the Frisco ros-d had a number of photographs made exhibiting the dangers of this character as they occur almost every day. The brakeman who plays with death while adjusting a coupling is given to see the foolishness of his actions. The switchman who swings himself through a string of cars While they are in motion is pictured. The carelessly "kicked’’ car that goes rolling down over a grade crossing is shown about to smash an automobile with three or four persons in it. The brakeman who insists on standing between the bumpers of two cars while adjusting the couplings is shown just how easily death may come to him.— Kansas City Star.