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Show RAILROAD AND DEATH. Leroy Scott produces startling figures fig-ures of comparison in railroad disasters disas-ters in the January World's Work, in an article on "The Railroads' Death Roll." In 1898 about 500 soldiers were killed in Cuba and about 2500 died in hospitals. hos-pitals. There was an outburst of public pub-lic wrath over the unnecessary deaths from disease that shook the whole United States, and that will be remembered remem-bered as long as the Spanish-American war. In 1903 almost 10.000 persons were killed, and more than 75.000 were Injured In-jured by the railroads of this country. If there is any public wrath about these deaths every man of the-public is keeping keep-ing it close within himself. War becomes mild when compared with the human havoc wrought by our railroads. After wars there come treaties treat-ies when the killing ends; but the killing kill-ing and maiming on our railroads goes on year after year, every year's death record usually surpassing Its predecessor. predeces-sor. KILLED AND INJURED BT RAILWAY "ACCIDENTS." United United - Kingdom. States. Passengers killed 1901 282 Passengers killed 1902 916 Passengers injured 1901 476 4.996 Passengers injured, 1903 732 6.6SS Employees killed 19fl 491 2.675 Employees killed 1902 V8, I960 Employees injured 1901 4.214 41.142 Employees injured 1902 2.806 60,524 Statistics for the United States are, of course, for the fiscal year ending June SO. PROPORTION OP KILLED AND INJURED IN-JURED TO TOTAL. United United Kingdom. States. One passenger killed of every 198,938,546 1,883,706 One passenger injured of every 1.(23,250 97,244 One employee killed of ' every 1.224 404 One employee injured of every 151 24 |