Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1917 — RAILROAD TO PROTECT DEER [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD TO PROTECT DEER

Enginemen on Western Road Ordered to Extinguish Headlight to Allow Animal to Jump. —— A kindly act on the pdrt'of a railway Is the order of a big California railroad to its enginemen that when a deer is seen on the track at night the headlight shall be extinguished for a moment. More than a dozen deer were killed by trains In California in January. It has been discovered that when the headlight is extinguished, if only for a second, the animals are able to jump to safety. Otherwise the glare of the headlight dazes them so that they are run down before they can escape. .