| Show n The Editor of If f the tho RaIlroad GIl Garotte cUe In a II recent number of ot that publication lion tion discusses c railroad accidents and LillI conclusions similar to tho e In these thesa columns Ho lIo fays PIlS railroad managers man arc itro doing moio molo than titan ever evor to prevent Present accidents but Lut they cannot Ca succeed entirely until tnt they the navo full control of or the employ employment ment of ot mon mn Ho Ito maintains that nol col collisions 1 tIre are almost without exception duo due to 0 of ot orders Ho lie an tin analyzes tho thio situation us as follows Only 1421 people wore were killed In Intrain train accidents Of or these lost their lives liven In collisions end and It It Is nearly true trite to say sa that thaI every ovet collision Is duo titio du to 10 of a alack lack of ot discipline o that at least this much Is puro pur waste and can be it Itoh p ped jed Of the tue 61 lives live lost In detail durall monts ments this Is nearly near hut but not quIts HO so true rue A J detailed examination shows shown wl that at nt least 22 of ot these thello lives could not have been boun saved by tho the loans nans s vigilance Unusual disturbances disturbance b by y the forces force of or nature antI and art are beyond control Al AlE Alby AlEy by y no means moans all nil these derailments were vuro duo due to a n lock lack of o discipline a n considerable proportion fully one fourth were caused by defects In Ino equipment o preventable but not by b bythe he tho methods lI lIBut But flut official reports tho lie number lumber of fatal the tho pout past year us UH The editor of the Gazette offers O ho tho following explanation The other killings which go lu tu tomake make nako up UI the tho total of or are lira lives Ives lost on the anti and a 0 careful cat tul examination of these 1111 los el Is float Instructive For Seven lost host their heads by stickIng them hem out of windows and J i 47 17 pai vero w ro killed while trying to tl ave tave time limo In getting on und and oft off trains Due to tho th tame ame foolishness miro in III ru 10 ruthen then than OO wore injuries beyond tho the control of ot others In coupling and uncoupling cars curl 30 employees lust their last 1 year ear In tho the year yonI 1800 a tt grouter greater number yore tilled killed while doing that thal work vork although the he number of oC freight curs ClUB In service hUll Ittis HUB considerably more moru than double l I during that period and ami the tho yard yur and terminal oti has Increased by II h a it much larger proportion This subject cl clI U I worth a u little further study Hull rOIl accident statistics Dhow uncertainly that hat Iii 1 5 are lit Injured for rot one killed but hUl In our oer coupling ell dents the tho ratio Is IH 23 to tn 1 In lii I w r Injured while coupling lass 1088 than half hulf UH as mom many earn cars as all a year when only thul Is I to say more mon than 70 jj per cent of or these th lle have hava boon boen eliminated We 0 may as assume sume that lint this relative reduction In kill 1 ilK und wounding U 1 entirely dun luo luoto to In Ii the use ulle of ot the tho automatic car ear coupler or er In III switches and work about trains 9 1 0 1 killed III I hill this his year yar This Thill too Ii Is u it pr i reduction roil oct iu tI due ti Lie tn lii lie Ih In IncreasIng creasIng iwa II III In yards of a it power movement nf ur swItches In with tho In contRol with overhead brIdges 1 structures lives 1116 wore were lout lost year The Inference noe Is III that the number If of nud nan bt lii lu low by liy vigilance Q of I th hij mon monbut hut but that from oilier will I I continue IO U 5 no itO matter fiat t ar what t ill i II road may mil do tin |
