Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1908 — Street Railway Accidents. [ARTICLE]

Street Railway Accidents.

One of the startling fac*s developed by the pnblic service commission of New York city is that over 200 persons are killed or seriously injured every month by the urban railways under the commission’s jurisdiction. The annual toll of deaths in accidents is be tween 500 and 600.