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Show DEVICES TO PREVENT RAILROAD COLLISIONS CHICAGO, July 15. The question as to the possibility of preventing both head-on head-on and abutting collisions between railroad rail-road trains on either single or double tracks will be determined by a committee of the American Railway association, in an Inspection of safety devices which will be adopted on the Burlington road Friday. Fri-day. The inspection will be the first Installation Installa-tion of safety devices which has been made under the direction of the Interstate commerce commission under the authority author-ity granted to it by congress, which appropriated ap-propriated $50,000 for the purpose. One dovlce consists of an arrangement attached at-tached to the track and projecting above It When tho signal is set for danger the device is also set for operation, and should the signal be overrun a valve is opened underneath the engine, which lets out the air and sets tho brakes. Another device la guaranteed to make a collision of any kind, even on a single track, an Impossibility. It Is said that tho device is such that when a train enters a "block" It sets a stop apparatus at tho other end of tho block. With this set for operation, if an engineer attempts to disregard dis-regard the signal and to enter the block from either direction the automatic stop opens the air valve on the locomotive, setting the brakes and bringing the train to a full stop. |