Show ii r BRITONS AMAZED BY DY TRAIN Great Outcry Is Raised foi for S Adoption of 01 Safety Devices S CAN NO LONGER BOASTS BOAST BOAS Reputation of En English lIh Railways Hallways foi fi ur S Safest ofes t in the tle World Is Disappearing Db S London Sept 2 22 It 22 It It is curious but bill butt sS t nevertheless a n fact that the average Englishman prides himself more upon his railways than on almost any other i I national possession The Tho country is s so small that Unit thero there grows up between tl the people and anti their railways a peculiar peculiarly intimate as association which Is is r ally nil strong as 08 regards s the thc two great fl main routes to the tho north understanding this feeling an Amen Amei AmenS Ameri- Ameri t it S can could co scarcely appreciate ho hol how l drop deep was the sympathy for fOl the Amen Amer victims can enD C- C The flie recollection of Salisbury Sa lis bUl ha hafi had S f fi scarcely died out before another acS accident ac ac- ac- ac startled the country countr Into a at aI j r S S semI panic s Only twelve were killed t i P 5 when the tho Scotch express was wrecked v on Thurs Thursday a yet ret few tragedies havU have hav haveS U S so stirred the public mind Nothing y else is talked about Foreign happenIngs happenS happenS' happen happen- S' S ings sink into insignificance Insl compared com corn K s pared with the amazingly sudden udden U. U S d death nth met by the sleeping passengers ers R at nt Grantham S In this most people see the passing 1 of the proud boast that En England's lands land's railroads railS rail rail- 3 J S rea roads reads s are arc the safest est in the world am and andS S Incomparably superior in this respect to tu American lines A tremendous outcry outi out out- i S. S Cr cry is being raised for increased pro pre I cf cautions and the railroad companies doubtless will be forced to adopt I t extra devices for safety whether safety whether the they theyS S believe them practical or on not k 4 Accident Couldn't be Helped Helped- The agitation hardly appears to be beS S Justified as the latest accident seems to have been one of those Inexplicable i affairs to which there could have ha been no warning S If I as ome some suppose the engineer S suddenly became without any previous prey prey- ous oua symptoms a raving lunatic he lie was only following the latest statistics which show that twenty engineers andS and firemen are thus afflicted every year S S That the seizure should come In his cab eab was was merely the misfortune of oC those In the train behind Britons S S hint that if It statistics were available in inS S America it would be bl found that sudS sudden sudden sud sud- S den acute insanity reaches an au 31 even evenS S higher percentage among American r than English locomotive hands However however How How- ever that ma may he be the terror Inspired S IJ by the Idea of ot having a raving lunatic at the tho throttle has taken firm finn hold of ofa 55 a 4 v. v people no not usually nervous OUS and it will ibe i months before the majority here herer r I with an anything like th the degree of assurance That or e ll bt r f tile the chief directors of the system met death in one of his own e cars rs has had hadan hadS hadI I S an effect far exceeding that of or the In InS Indictments Ini In- In sometimes issued in S i America after aCter similar disasters II |