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Show DEATH TOLL OF : RfllLRDAQS LESS Safety First Work Cuts Deaths and Injuries on Nation's Roads WASHINGTON. Nov. 2. Fewer per sons were killed r.n niilcads during '1?19 than in any year since 190$ an.l I fewer wore injured than In any year 'since 1'JlO, said a statement Issued today to-day by the interstate commerce commission. com-mission. During 1919 a total of fi.O'S persona i were killed and I '..": 1 injured , om-1 om-1 pared with 8,859 killed in 1S9H and '119.057 injured In 191". Ot the killed ! during the year 7 .". 3 were passengers land of the m.iured 7,1 .". f, were passengers. passen-gers. Kmploes killed during tie jwi 1919 numbered 1,188 and 131,018 were Injured. Fewer traspassers on railroads rail-roads were killed In 1919 than during any year of the commission's records i which go Lack to 1S9M 1-ast year 2.-SS8 2.-SS8 trespassers were killed and t 869 were injured. Railroad officials said . thero were less person- out of employment employ-ment and fewer tramps than formerlyl because of the war. |