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Show SET A NEW SAFETY RECORD Year 1915 Showed a Gratifying Decrease De-crease of Accidents on the Country's Coun-try's Railroad Lines. Nineteen hundred and fifteen set a new record. The greatest improvement improve-ment in safety of railroad operation ever recorded for a year is shown by the annual accident bulletin of the interstate in-terstate commerce commission. The total number of persons killed was in excess of 3,500, but of these only 222 were passengers, the others being employees of the lines, including freight as well as passenger service, track workers and employees at divisional divi-sional points, and trespassers on the rights of way, including pedestrians and passengers of the genus hebo, riding rid-ing either on the trucks cr in "side-door "side-door Pullmans." The striking fact in the figures is that of approximately 1,000,000,000 passengers carried only 222 were killed. The number cf persons per-sons injured was much greater, but the cause of the decrease in the num- ', her of passengers injured in any way is to be found in the reduced number of the train accidents. The nurnter of such accidents in 1915 was 11,542, as against 15,006 the year before, a decrease of 32 per cent. The number of collisions fell mere than 33 per cent; showing, as we nay suppose, a much wider use cf the blcck signal system as well as higher grades cf i efficiency In many mechanical and dispatching dis-patching departments. i |