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Show ASOTHKlt.tllOLOCAtST. A trata Hearing a railway station, a defective de-fective wheel and a pluDe of the engine andoarsdown twenty-six feci; followed by the burning of the cars and the roiat-ing roiat-ing alive of a mast of the buiuan beings inside, form anoth:r of tho.c terrible scenes of suffering which make American Ameri-can railroad traveling a horror and disgrace dis-grace to tho country. Were this the first terrible disaster of the kind the publio would be horrified at it, and the details would be given with thrilling thril-ling exactness. But these tragedies ; hive been repeated untiLtho pubiio feeling is growing callous, and feariul a? thtsy are to contemplate they aie now telegraphed in the same matter-of-fact way that the most trivial occurrence would be. Is it possible that American ingenuity, in-genuity, American invention and American skill cannot find some means by which Buch catastrophes cau be avoided? Of tho sixteen charred bodies, or corpses rendered unrecognizable unrecog-nizable by the action of fire, in the disaster of Tuesday, there is every reason to believe, from the details that have reached us, that probably not one life wouJd have been destroyed, had it not been for tho overturned stoves setting fire to the car. Why not warm passenger cars with hot hair pipes from the engine ? There is nothing impracticable in it; and certainly cer-tainly the country would be spared the repeated shocks which these periodical holocausts give, while hundreds of families would be spared the agony of searching in vain among burned and blackened human remains to discover the only vestiges left of Borne loved but lost one, given over to a horrible death, and hurried into eternity in a manner which humanity dreads to thick upon. |