Show l A AN N ENGLISH ACCIDENT Our coosins will m not be able pleto bl tu to point with so ii o much pride to their record of or comparative ratho freedom from railway raU y accidents accident from this tUne time for forward Ol ward sard ud A few days ago o while a 8 fast train was approaching M lh the h station at Witham on the th Great Eastern railway several severI passenger cars jumped jum ed the track and aud crashed rashed into the station statton buildings Ten Teft passengers were killed instantly and many others were era badly hurt The cause of ot the accident has not been ascertained While there will m be no disposition in inthis this country to rejoice at the Great Grent Eastern Eat t disaster the accident is in instructive in that It shows that even een on the superbly managed English rail railroads 16 roads accidents Ire are possible And in i Justice to the English managers ra it must bf I said that accidents arll arci L far tar fewer fe Ol tha than i accidents In the Ute United States but in lii making makIn the statement the difference in mileage lige and und in the number numbe of ot passengers pas handled han must be taken into T The rhe remarkable feature feat ro about rail railway railway way a travel 81 hi In this country is not the large number of ot accidents but the fact that there are not more of or them When we remember that hundreds of thou sas of passenger trains ate are ar run every yea vear I and that they the carry carlY mil mu millions lions of or passengers ithe is h surprisingly small It saId that too many man people are ar killed and maimed m by the railroads This la is t true uc in the sense sensa that one person killed or injured is te one too many mam But the ox of ot every human forethought cannot always prevent accidents They occur on the best beat managed roads and when least expected The invisible mi Haw Ilaw na in the tho niece of ot steel the momentary relaxation of an the misreading of ot an order the sudden illness UIn ss of or a I dispatcher may cause a 8 terrible wreck There Thoro are so soman many man ways that lead to disaster dl astet It is I hardly possible O humanly speaking spanking to safeguard theta them all aU The best that can be done is to guard them whenever it Itis is possible When an accident occurs for tor a II specific CRuse caus remove the cause I |