Show RAILWAY CARNAGE with the advancement of and improvement in all kinds of mechanism the death rate keeve steady pace while the ranks of those who have been more or lose less severely injured have swollen to a mighty army in each of the grow great nations the tables completed for 1891 show that during that time persons were killed by the steam railways of the united States 2660 of 0 them being employed emp loyes the latter thus representing about one third of the total fatalities the number ot of pose passengers engen la is given as aa igl and only of these wets among the slain the dangers attending the business ot of acure mechanical buical railroading being thus thu illustrated lim in a sentence we have joining car plat platforms fornis I 1 automatic couplers and brakes which caal be applied from the caball cab all useful inventions and apparently saving of life and limb and yet the proportion of killed and injured among railway employed emp loyes is greater great since their adoption than before Is it not about time something effectual was done in this his direction |