Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1907 — Casualties For, 1907. [ARTICLE]

Casualties For, 1907.

Tho tht first half of 1907 has not pissed, its record of casualty al ready exceeds the total Of 1906. There have been thirty-eight railroad accidents of more than the or dinary magnitude* in which 273 persons have been killed and 925 injured. Twenty-three sieam§;B have been wrecked, involving the loss of 902 lives. There have been 13 mine accidents in which 355 persons have perished. These casualties have been due to human negligence or ignorance in large part, but nature has been destruc live also. Tidal waves have swept away 2,240, earth quakes 5,100, hurricanes 530, cyclones thus far, seventy. The cloud has a silver lining, however. The total of gilts and bequests in all forms of philanthropy in less than six months of 1907 is larger than the total for the twelve months of 1906, being SIOB, 961,589, as compared with $lO6, 282,083. And never have th*-re been five months during the last twenty-five years ip which the total oj embezzlement and various forms i of defalcation has been as small as ! in the first five months of 1907.