Show I O ON YEARS YEAR'S SI Over Over- Forty Thousand Casualties Casualties Casualties Casual Casual- ties In Railway Disasters V This Year V I IMPROVEMENTS IMPROVEMENT IS SHOWN Appalling as List Is a Decrease l Is Seen In Death Percentages Per- Per V 1 V I ashIngton July Jul orio Ft Fort ono ono thousand live H hundred bundled and seven en casualties cas cas- to pa passengers t and Is Istha lie tho startling record re ord on the railways o of Lh the the- United I ted State Stales or the six ix months ending March MacelI 31 this year This 1 Is the total of or two tuo quarters the quarter endIng end- end endIng ending Ing March 31 representing only less Ico's than In the previous quarter Ilio total number of casualties to pu passengers and to while on duty luring during the thc three months ending ending- March 31 31 11 was wan con compared with t reported iu Lu tho thia proceeding t lre months month The total number of oC pu ten ten- gers and killed Jn n. n CJ 4 the number of t In In- InI eti le less I In the I killed 1 1 20 O le lemat e a hi In the tho number ini In- In i ir cl wj 1 A record r 01 g i r cul 1 u UH l In Jn tie the quarter quartee vas 2991 2078 2478 col- col l V 1913 3 or of a 3 32 3 l nR 1 U menis ments mn en s c-s passenger affected rime Wic d mU to cn cats cars f and arid roadway by by- Ih these accidents nt nh to 3 3 nan 10 The rhe number o of killed in coupling co accidents ent shows a n diminution with the of 26 j per cent as nR compared quarter la last l preceding or OJ with that of one on year car ago The other othel principal pi Items Hem In the pre present record show l no Important changes n as compared with quarter which were tho he last la t preceding J l by large aggregates of f both anti and injured d The number of passengers reported Ii II It In train accidents is thirty per percent tit cent smaller |