Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1907 — AMERICAN ROADS MOST DEADLY. [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN ROADS MOST DEADLY.

United States Lead* In Number of Person* Killed on Ralls. Herr Guillery, an official of the archive bureau of the Prussian railway administration, has prepared a comparative table of. statistics of those killed and injured by railways in various countries. He finda, that the railroads in tho United States are the most deadly. The United States has more mileage than all Europe, but even taking that into consideration, ths United States holds pre-eminencs in proportional figures. i. Out of every 10,000 employes the relative figures of killed are: United States, 20.1; England, 12.3; Switzerland, 8.2; Russia, 7.8; British India, 0.7; Belgium, 44. In the matter of travelers injured, France holds the lowest record in the world. The United States shows proportionately forty times as many injured as Russia; twenty-two times as many as Italy; as England, twenty; Belgium, eight; Bwintserland, four; Germany, two.