Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1916 — FEWER CASUALTIES ON LINES [ARTICLE]

FEWER CASUALTIES ON LINES

Year 1915 Showed a Decrease in Comparison With Figures of responding Period*. Of the 8,621 persons killed by steam railroads in the last year, 222 were passengers and 1,594 were employees on duty, 5,084 were trespassers, 1,163 were nontrespassers not included in any of the aboVe classes, and 343 were victims of industrial accidents. Of the 162,040 persons injured, 12,010 were passengers, 38,060 were employees on duty, 840 were employees not on duty, 5,390 were other person* not trespassing, 6,448 were trespassers and 99,192 were hurt In industrial accidents. The comparison for the last three years aS regards passengers and employees killed and injured by the operation of trains is as follows: 1915. 1914. 1918. Passengers killed.. 222 « c J 22 Passengers injured .....12,110 15,121 16,539 Employees killed 1,809 1,850 Employees 1njured.......38,900 51,938 57,797 The number of fatalities in railroad industrial accidents was 409 in 1914 and 414 in 1913, and those injured in industrial accidents totaled 113,274 in 1914 and 113,620 in 1913.