Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1914 — FEW WRECKS IN INDIA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FEW WRECKS IN INDIA

RAILROADS MADE REMARKABLE RECORD DURING 1913. Only Three Passenger* Met Death, ' From Cause* .Which Were Beyond the Control of the Managers of the Line*. The Indian railroads carried something over 400,000,000 passengers in the year 1913, considering which (heir record of but three passengers killed from causes beyond their own control is very remarkable. This figures out at less than 0.01 per million passengers carried, an average of one in 5,000,000,000 miles traveled. The really serious wrecks in all the history of Indian railroading may be numbered on one’s fingers, and it is a remarkable fact that most of these have been due to natural causes rather than neglicence. One of the worst troubles to guard against in India is from the expansion of the rails due to the intense heat. This Is, of course, as elsewhere, allowed for in construction, but it is not always practicable to leave a sufficient interval between the rails. The accompanying photograph shows what

Distortion of Rails Caused by Intense Heat —This Often Results lh §erious Train Wrecks. may happen in such a case.«, In this instance the trouble was discovered in time to prevent disaster.—Popular Electricity.