Show THE DEADLY RAILROAD BRIDGE A few years yeara ago railway disa disasters were of such frequent occurrence that telegraph editors got to heading news of that kind with the two words the daily Pt these hese conveying th meaning all ab fully as aa a more elaborate caption could have done it looked as aa though carelessness bad become the rule and carefulness carel ulness the obscure exception u until 11 til the public became a so 0 I 1 irritated rr ita lodi and threatening that thai better were provided more attention lulu was waa given to tracks track bridges and employee emp loyes and lor for a year orso oreo great cala calamities have been reduced to the mia minimum linum the tragedy at chester maos maes how ever opens anew the chapter of horrors and again places the jocular mind in a state of nervous apprehend stun it seems that no lose leas than thirteen persons persona were killed outright and twenty more or less lees seriously injured rhe manager ot of the road on being questioned gave this reply accord ing 1119 to the best beat information we have received vending pending the legal tion the accident was due to the carelessness les anees of the bridge repairers W wn are thus shown that the terrible ij re tor the killi nir and maiming and for jeopardizing wounding the lives ot of a whole train load of erupting tru ting tini passengers is placed in ate low lew words by the boason albany 1411 aai road company through its authorized representative in the person pergola of cf the general manager they are as curt aa they are unsatisfactory it hiss become an old but not alwa algava a lesson that there is need as of c never falling failing a d never ceasing care in the control loniro of railroads in the case of the boo boston booton ton albany company it seems to have been utterly ignored it is shown that the bridge was no not strong enough to support a loco locc motive as an heavy as an that thai which was drawing the ill fated train but was it not duty to know this thin and knowing to act on this thi knowledge if an enstine engine were to ta explode through an overpressure over pressure OJ of steam it would scarcely satisfy he public to say that the boiler could only orry go LL uch aud and more than that bat wa generated yet of such to is the return retura in the chester Chef lter oaie ease the boston herala says the tion of the corporation appears to 10 have hav been called to this and efforts were welpe in progress to strengthen the bridges bridge but in the meantime too much reliance was placed bythe by the engineer who ran the train upon the bridge at chester A fearful result followed the corporation has paid the penalty of its own confluence once in the loss logo of L probably a halt nu million illion ui it ciare but the sacrifice of life Js is immeasurably more important nothing can atone tor for this or cure the anguish of those who have been bereaved by it the boston albany rail railroad reau is said to he be cue of the most carefully managed railroads railroad in the count itis his shown by this thin accede acol deit e t that all its precautions precaution were still insufficient which alone forfeits its good reputation since 11 14 ir br not enough that vigilance fives five ten or fifteen years and then for relaxed wa whereby cereby a tragedy actually invited invited too often to la it the is that euca such invitations are acate 1 oae cape utah haa bas been measurably free irona irom catastrophes and long may she railway continue but one could be precipitated ao 80 here bare on t the he same terms that hat they brought about elsewhere vigilance are avert them does doea not always it is the best beet defense the corn but have to be able to show banies dan lee can that the ei rou were altogether their control |