Show CAUSES OF WRECKS Statement of Conditions That I Result in Annual S Slaughter Do the time public realize the time enormous num number el of or persons killed annually I In anI t railroad V nH iii 11 l- l united I States tes S S SS S Do they know that hut Jn Jim the time careless lucky happy manner In Jn which our railways are alc operated persons lost losa their lives dod were Injured In Injured In- In lured thc the last fiscal year car This This' I Is not guess uc s work The These o are official figures Think of uC It it Nearly dead den an annot and not tar far from maimed mahne within a n. twelve month b by systems that send scud car loads of ot freight t an and passengers rushing over the lie country pell mell In Ina Ina ina a care may fashion Cashion with the thc result of trains ditched here others plowing Into each other there thell grade ra e crossings having their victims at numerous places and antl such as tho the latest holocaust on Thanksgiving day n near Lynchburg Va constituting another chapter In iii time the ever continued talc tale o of American ra railway II u tragedies les That is the lie cold solid truth huth about It H. It is not to be denied or om softened 1 down or om managerially glossed over O ml with hi woul would would-be be in lad indignant l nant a assertion that accidents are arc unavoidable an and amid often due to what old fashioned 1 bills of or lading called tho ho act of Go God Heaven is not Jut engaged in tho lie act of or doln doing a two track business on a tingle single track roa road for COI the thc a added dc profit that lint Is I In 11 it Nor 01 does docs oes It summon men niemi to eternity b by way of or a grade clo crossing Those are arc the doings of or railway di directors directors di- di l- l rectors rector who through incompetence of or direction or official grce greed they greed they cantale can ean tale talc their thick choice its it's one or the lie other othero o so o overload u the thc traffic system so carelessly run trains under con conditions that invite invite for for the they result in In in-dis- dis disaster a aster lor that wrecks s with their list of oC wounded an and dead lead are terribly numer ous I US IUS S SIt II It is u useless for fur railway officials to offer as an au excuse that the enormous e of freight ht tonnage throughout through through- out the time country has made congestion cong of or trains Inevitable Ine anti and consequent disaster dis dis- dis aster If H human suf- suf Cering and human life arc are the thc lie price of oC acceptance of more moie freight than can be safely carried Is not that acceptance mOI morally if not hot legally legall criminal S If JC there Is denial that American train service senico is run in a n careless s fa fashion fash h- h ion without proper Sl Cc safeguards safeguards' is not time thc death of or a lr president of oC a railroad In hi time the Lynchburg trac tragedy a significant l an and an eloquent refutation of or the thc denial When hen Is a train guarded more carefully wh when n are aro engineer conductors conductors con con- dUcton train hau hands s. s brake tenders so wl wide e awake so alert so 50 sowell well warned warne b by word telegraphed down own the line to be careful at their post of or duty a n when the lie hl highest hest railway railway rail rail- way ivay official of or the road Is ln over o time the tracks Yet Mr Mm Samuel Spencer president of or the Southern railroad system toni tem General Philip Schuyler and anti overal soy ov eral crul others Ja lay dead on the time tracks aftertime after aUel the time Lynchburg accident ent Time The whole system of oC railroad traffic III in America is ii wrong wron- Ion wrong s with Ith H its network of or con congested single sing track roa roads 8 where whelo theto should bo be two and two where as much freight an ana and andas andas a as many human beings s are arc transported trans trans- ported as demand a track four route Grade crossings are arc deathtraps time the In- In of tho the devil they are arc called and should bo ho abolished throughout the thc country countr New York Herald |