Show I Block System Not Perfect The rhe news by wire has been very brisk telling us that the blame for the terrible triple passenger train wreck the other day rested between the engineer of the second section and the in charge of the signals Let us not not not-be be so sure that the tile blame was on either Th The block signal system is by no no o means infallible Go out among railroad men and talk and talk to them confidentially and andy y you'll hear a all l sorts sorts sorts-of of cases the country over where the block didn't t work right Sometimes the wires cross or break and everything goes out of c O Occasionally cas they merely touch for a second 1 No matter the touch is enough to cause momentary trouble Nearly N arly always the trouble is discovered at once and steps taken quickly to avert accident In the L Lake ke Shore wreck case there was vas no time to do this if in the trouble was with the block We think that a railroad regulation which schedules ONE FAST TRAIN ONLY ONE MILE BEHIND ANOTHER as in the case of this catastrophe at Amherst is well nigh criminal in itself The first section finding the block against it for it for no reason at all it appears came appears came practically to a stop The second section running only one mile behind BUT AT A SPEED OF OP FIFTY MILES AN HOUR must have come upon the slowed down train ahead of it in a avery avery avery very few seconds Fast trains should not follow other trains any cl closer ser than ten minutes or ten miles r. r There herc would have been no catastrophe at Amherst if this had been the rule r We Ve are still pretty raw in America in our our- best managed affairs V more more and better inventions We need more regard for safety first first by the tile men who make rules for the conduct of our a ff F rt |