Show i A RAILROAD COMPARISON Representative Mann chairman of the house committee on interstate and foreIgn commerce has haa just submitted a report Olt in which some interesting corn com comparisons between American and Eng Ush raIlroads are Instituted It Is a qUite genen generally ly accepted belief that travel is much s safer er on the railroads of Great Groat Britain than on AmerIcan roads The Mann report shows that this theory is a delusion Mr Mann compiled the stati statistics In connection WIth a resolution directing the Inter tate nate commerce commission to make an Investigation and report recommendations recommendations for legislation to make rail railway railway way travel In this country safer While the fact that our are safer fer highways or of travel than the English roads will not of Itself r reduce uce the danger of accidents or the num number her ber of fatalitieS it Is comforting to know that we are ahead or of the older country Mr Mann found that by far the greater yeater number of deaths and In Injuries juries from railroad accidents In the United States are caused at crossings and t to trespassers era on the rj rights of way Actual travelers on the lines are safe enough by comparison In the year that ended June 30 IGI 1046 persons were killed and were Injured In railway accidents But only 2 were killed and injured In derailments and collisions AU All of the remainder were eIther railroad men employed about yards or were In the technical sense trespassers on the right of way ay According to Mr Manns fig figures figurea urea ures the fatalities amon among passengers sere ere much fewer In proportion to mileage than the same kind of fatall fatali fatalities ties on British ro roads s The showing is even better when see sec sections or groups or of states are compared with the British lines For example there are miles of railway in inthe inthe the states or of Iowa Illinois Wisconsin MInneta and p parts of North and i South Dakota The United Kingdom i iha ha has less Je s than half this mileage In Inthe Inthe the territory named sL p passengers gers gens were killed and were injured during the year covered by the static statis ties tics This says the Mann report Is Isa Isa a far smaller number than were killed kille and injured In the United Kingdom The figures would have been more impressive ve if the comparisons had bed been based on the number of passengers handled There after all Is the real test teat And nobody will wUl deny that too I many people are killed and nd Injured every year by American railways It If legislatIon can be devised that thet will stop the slaughter and the maimIng by byall aU all means let it be devised and enacted |