Show FREIGHT TRAFFIC THE CAUSc Responsible for Excess of Accidents in the United States How little we teally know of the casualties on foreign railtoads Is Indicated In-dicated by tho fact that while French railroad statistics give the total of railway employes killed In IflOt I at 226 and the Injuted at 509 tho ro ports to the labor Inspectors under the French law give the following figures of accidents to employes In the transportation Industry Killed 374 permanently disabled CIS ells abled not exceeding four days 32788 results unknown OC3 i a total ol 31330 The reason why there are mote casualties on Ameilcan railways than on Buropean Is because tho units ol tlsk are glCa tel here as can he seen In the following comparative table imnpc Inllil Stali8 IIMH t I 11KK MIUi of tnllwnv 1M 1 > 774 Miec 1iHsiIiKris cm ned OIIH mile tIIOIIJOOO < JSOOOOfiOODO I Ton rallied one mill i9 IIiIIO l < > l 2a > 0000000 < The enormous fiolght traffic is tho overshadowing element of peril In railway operation In the United States It Is almost three times greater great-er than that of all Kutope Freight trains figure In tlueociuarlerH of the prominent collisions topotted bore Slason Thompson In The World ToDay To-Day |