Show I I n RAILROADS MORE OHE DESTRUCTIVE THA THAN A AVAR AU Five thousand persons were killed in railroad accidents in tho the United States during the year endIng endIng endIng end- end Ing June 30 1907 Moro More than six seventy thousand were ero hurt in railroad wrecks That ia Is worse than thana a war var It is tremendously greater in both death and wounding than the entire war with Spain These accidents arose tram from from from-a n arlet variety of causes One Ope of or the most easily preventable causes has been tho those e collisions caused b by lapses on the part of or em em- who had hall not received reechoed the sleep that nature requires They saved a their companies as much as fifty firt dollars ollars a n. month by doing the work that two men should have ha done And tho the company lost thousands of dollars dollar and the traveling public entrusted entrusted en en- trusted to their care has suffered lo loss s which cannot can enn cannot not be measured in money moner Improvement in car coupling devices has reduced reduced re re- re- re duc the number o of casualties and It Is 16 likely that over every year ear will witness a n. still sun farther t escape from tram that peril with its bad consequences But It would wout seem that railroad managers managers could so rapid rapidly perfect their operating methods method as to r re reduce duce uco accidents o of all kinds Instead of th that t. t the thc number In the last fiscal year rear was an increase of ot seven so hundred killed over the year ear before Of Ot cou course e the extent of or operation has Increased sed too But Dut I. I when so 50 much In both mane money and human life lICe d depends ends upon it ono one would suppose the business business busi busl- ness of or running trains would would become fairly free rree fre I from a accidents The men are not careless bt beyond other breadwinners They are arc probably as careful a as they he can be And the t or of passengers passengers pas pas- is almost nil nU Beyond a d doubt here Is the dut duty of railroad men higher up They must strive to make op operation of their lines less hazardous le less destructive tive and tl and less costly A wreck Is the most expensive sive dvo 0 thing that can happen If Ie possible it should be prevented vente 1 And It does seem that the killing of or five lIve thousand and the Injuring of seventy six thousand thousand thou thou- sand In a year ear can n be be prevented |