Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1905 — Like the Report of a Battle. [ARTICLE]

Like the Report of a Battle.

A bulletin just issued by the InterState Commerce Commission, giving an account of railroad accidents in the United States during the months of January, February and March, 1905, reads like the report of some tierce battle, with its long lists of dead and wounded. It shows that during the quarter there were 28 passengers and 204 employes killed and 1,651 passengers and 2,062 employes injured in train accidents. In all 232 persons were killed and 3,713 injured. Other accidents to passengers and employes not the result of collisions or derailments bring the total number of casualties up to 15,306 —909 killed and 14,397 injured. Judge Sayer at Lakeport, Cal., handed down a decision giving * entire Floyd estate, worth $1,000,000, to Milos Gorcene, the street car conductor whose handsome face and polished manners won Miss Floyd as s brids against ths opposition of her parents. Sir James C. Browne, author of various works on mental and nervous diseases. in an address befors ths public health congress in London, declared it was s good working hypothesis to regard the natural life of man as • hundred years.