Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1917 — STOP HABIT OF TRESPASSING [ARTICLE]

STOP HABIT OF TRESPASSING

Natural Outcome of Guarding Tracks and Bridges by Armed Forces of United States. The Railway Gazette predicts that a side issue of war conditions will be a decrease of the habit of trespassing on railroad property. This will be a natural outcome of the guarding of tracks and bridges by the armed forces of the United States for the purpose of preventing wilful Interference with transportation. There has always been great danger to trespassers on railway property. In the months of July, August nnd SeytemhemßifiT the number of persons killed in accidents resulting from the operation- of trains in the United States was 2,781, and of these 1,512, or 54.4 per cent were trespassers. The number of trespassers killed was three times as large as the number of railroad employees who lost their lives in the same way. Yet trespassing persisted. It Is highly probable, however, that the risk of danger from shooting will deter many from trespassing who were oblivious to the risk of danger from trains.