Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1898 — The Safety of Railway Travel. [ARTICLE]

The Safety of Railway Travel.

Last year on American railways one passenger was killed in accidents out of every 2,827,474 passengers carried. That is to say, that you can take a train 2.827,474 on the law of averages, your turn comes to be killed. You will have to travel 72.093,963 miles on the cars before .that turn comes, and 4,541,942 miles before you are injured. If you travel 20 miles day for 300 days in the year, you can keep on at it for 758 years before your turn comes to be hurt. If there had been railways when our Savior, was born and you had begun to travel on the first day of the year A. D. 1, and had traveled 100 miles in every day of every month of every year since then, you would still have (in this year 1898) nearly three million miles yet to travel before your turn came to be killed. Which would be a long time to pay premiums on an accident issurance policy.