Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — HAVE CUI-DOWN DISASTERS [ARTICLE]

HAVE CUI-DOWN DISASTERS

Records Show Good Work Has Been Accomplished by the Railroads of America. A convenient tabulation of facts relating to railroads in the United Staten is furnished by the annual bulletin of the bureau of railway economics. The issue just’out bears the title •Statistics of Railways, 1905-1915,” and will be found extremely handy. The tables are unaccompanied by any comment, but a glance at them suggests to the interested eye many a point worth noting. Thus one cannot fail, to be struck with the remarkable decrease in the number of persons killed and injured in train accidents, during the five years covered by the table relating to that subject. In the case of passengers killed in such accidents, the fiscal year 1913 stands* out in an evil way, though the record as a whole Is decidedly encouraging, the figures for the successive years from 1911 to 1915 being 142, 139, 181, 85, 89; but the number of employees on duty killed, in train accidents shows a steady diminution in the number of persons injured, though very marked, has not been so great as in the number killed — which apparently indicates that 4ho improvement, that has taken place has been rather in safeguarding against accidents of the most disastrous type than in the prevention of all kinds of accidents.