Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1907 — PASSENGER DEATH RATE HIGH. [ARTICLE]

PASSENGER DEATH RATE HIGH.

Report Shows 3,965 Accidents on Railway Trains in Quarter. More passengers on railway trains lost their lives in train accidents in the quarter ended December last than in any previous three months in the history of the country except for the quarter ended in September, 1904, according to a bulletin issued by the interstate commerce commission. The total number of collisions and derailments reported during the December quarter of last year was 3,965, and 1,430 passengers and trainmen were killed and 19,514 injured. Of this number 180 passengers were killed in train accidents, which is four times the general average of all quarters since September, 1904, when the highest record of 228 killed was made. The next highest record was 147 in the quarter ended in December, 1903, and this was three times the average of the nine preceding quarters.