| Show remarkable DECREASE IN RAILROAD fatalities there were 1932 fewer fatalities to passengers and employees of railroads in accidents during the calendar year of 1908 than in 1907 according to a bulletin just issued by the bureau ot of of railway lewd and corn com paring the returns for 1903 with those for the fiscal year of 1806 07 the de crase in fatalities fatali is still moi t gratifying being 2173 or per percent cent of these the decrease in passengers geis killed was from to and in employ et e t from to 2 2535 the bulletin presents a it table showing a comparative summary of accident accidents tb pass engeli and ernp loya in railroad accidents acci denta during ane time specified eha xa cursory aua analyse lysis of this table shows chat t bat the comp comparative Imm immunity from accidents of a fatal nature in 1908 waa was due to a more orderly orderly oboe observance r v acce of rulea rules by passengers and em a greater deliberation in the running of passenger trains and the conclusion is drawn by the that the of railway accidents in 1908 was due almost witt entirely relY to the recession in freight traffic sa which aich took the etrain strain off of every department of the service the bulletin remarks not since the period of brininess prostration jn in and 1898 1896 has hits there been such a relative safety in hallwa railway y travel aa as Is 1 demonstrated in the figures figurea for 1903 which are based on an estimated I 1 passenger mileage of against for the lear ear ending june N so 1903 1908 and for 1906 07 indirectly these figures demonstrate how large a part the freight traffic plays in the per I 1 or safety or the pas passenger train f ir r ro co incident with a recession recess bi of 6 per cent in the formal th i fatalities of the latter de deerah erae j pel pet cent all kind of garden and gra eras 49 teda at the coop |
