Show RUSSIAN RAILWAY ACCIDENTS r la zu avral Avera twelve a oar DAY with 1220 1 dmd and ad in joi the Russ russian lar railways have always had bad au evil reputation tor for the great number of accidents fatal and otherwise annually recorded against thym judging from some statistics just issued by the ministry of waya ways and corn com this unenviable notoriety would appear to be more or well deserved the latest compiled data are for 1899 in which year there were accidents that Is on an at average a little more thau than twelve pr diem of this total 1362 were derail ionta i and 2 2330 0 of various other descriptions the derailments resulted in twenty one deaths and cases ot of serious personal injury the damages incurred by those accidents accidents were rubles the collisions were responsible for nineteen deaths cases of serious injury and damage to the amount ot of rubles other accidents resulted in the deatha deaths ot at 1146 persons and 2665 cases of pers personal nual injury railway accidents unconnected with Ps passenger enger trade were responsible tor for thirty deaths arid and cases of personal injury 1226 persons hilled killed and injured darlng the twelve months under review there were not eo so called serious railway in england if the trains ordinary and express in rus rug eia sla were rup run at anything like the speed which obtains on an english and french lines says a london landon standard correspondent the number ot at fatalities would be at least tenfold greater creater more especially espe bially in cases of derailment and collision railway traveling in russia la Is proverbially proverb lally slow but by no means sure |