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Show PH The repetition of fearful railroad disasters should result in legislation that will bring a cessation of such awful catastiophcs. If the directors '' of railroads and railway presidents H were held rcsponsihlo for this loss of life and made accessories to the criminal carelessness that Is usually H tlio cause of wrecks, would not great disasters become far less freipicntV The loss of life yearly fiom railroad accidents Is enormous, yet It Is with the greatest unconcern that we view the matter. Occasionally we hear of an under otllclal being discharged but what of the directors and presidents who permit trains to run over poor roadbeds and bridges that are unsafe? What, of the presidents and directors who do not provide cars with frames that will stand the pressure of the average wreck? In this connection It is noted that the great Pullman and Wagner sleepers are seldom crushed Into kindling wood, and vet the fewest PcodIc travel In these. The enormous local tiatllc and the long distance travelers in limited circumstance arc crowded into cars that in a wreck prove no more substantial than egg .shells. What of the dangerous mil- f toad ciosslngs where a watchman is I not provided? What of the hundred H other phases wherein there Is criminal neglect when excellent protection to life could be offered? Railroad presidents and directors should be f . held directly icsponsiblc for many catastrophes, for to their desire to I show up a certain dividend yearly many of these wrecks can be traced. |