Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1859 — Keep Your Seats in the Cars. [ARTICLE]

Keep Your Seats in the Cars.

Of the twelve passengers who were killed ; on the excursion train in Wisconsin, a few ' days since, seven are reported by the papers : as being, at the time of the accident, as follows: One in the Post-office car, three in the baggage car and three on the platform; of the other five the account does not state where they were, but as two of them arc stated to be in the employ of the Company, it is to be inferred that they were not in the regular passenger seats, and the other three may have been in their seats or may not, the papers do not state, but as not one lady was killed, and as they were a large portion of the party, the presumption is, not one of the men killed, was where, by the rules of the Company, and by the dictates of common prudence, he should have been. Had that “notice to the passengers” on the car door, forbidding them to stand on the platform, been regarded, not a life would have been lost. Why will not passengers obey that rule! The answer is plain. In very many instances they are so w’edded to tobacco that they must smoke at the peril o their lives.— Cleveland Herald OJ?~Friendtship, and Union, is our devil’s tuotto.