Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-09-21 | Page 6 | Harvest of Death

of the cmuses and others like them had tbeir part In a summer harvest of human life, brought to the attention even of the rasual reader every living day. Chicago Tribune. I HAEVEST OF DEATH. A great battle or an unexpected calamity calam-ity startles every one when the number of dead and dying is proclaimed. Little notice is taken of daily accidents in which only one or two persons lose their lives, although the year's aggregate Is large. It has been said that more people die in a year- from accidents caused by runaway horses than from disasters at sea, but the loss of a steamship thrills the world, while the daily toll on land goes unnoted. Every reader of the dally paper ia forced to notice the number of drownings drown-ings occurring during a summer season. A loss here and a loss there seems of comparatively small momeut, but when a tabulation shows 400 deaths from this one cause alone during, the last four months, the figures are appalling. A recent re-cent report of the coroner of Cook county Indicated that the number of . casualties from street-car accidents during his term of office would total the number of people who we'e lost In a dreadful theater thea-ter holocaust. What is more depressing about it all Is that in many instances death was utterly ut-terly needless. The carelessness of transportation trans-portation companies or their employees, the recklessness or foolhardiness of Individuals, In-dividuals, the Inattention to simple rules for Insuring safety, the attempting of feats beyond one's real strength, the getting get-ting into dangerous places on the water without any knowledge of swimming all - - -