Show REPORT the interstate commerce commissions report of railway casualties during the months of april may and june 1907 shows that there were 1 oga killed and injured of the killed met their death in railway wrecks and were injured in the same manner the other deaths and injuries were caused by accidents it getting on or off trains or by being run over A large portion ot them occurred to train hands and other railway employed emp loyes there were 48 passengers killed in train wrecks and through other causes the employed emp loyes killed in train wrecks totaled and through other were killed while coupling cars the total hurab er of collisions and der ailments in tha quarter was 1806 collisions and 1971 der ailments of which collisions and de rail ments affected passenger trains the demage to equipment and roadway by these accidents amounted to the following list of causes for 32 accidents Is interesting disregard of telegraphic orders collision on alde tracks train moving only one mile an hour but en geneman fell asleep and slept two aln utes had been on duty 21 hours eastbound encroached on lime of westbound passenger train 1 a m engineer did not know road had taken this run by making misrepresentation conductor and two brakemen asleep runaway on steep grade 3 a m engineer of westbound freight who was killed evidently forgot regular eastbound passenger train passenger train scheduled for only two days hi the week saturday and sunday flagman of pushing engine failed to signal following train operator 20 years 10 months ot age neglected to deliver meeting order cleared signal for another train and forgot to restore it to the stop position operator 17 years of age accepted order after train bad left flagman tailed to signal following train 5 a m foggy freight train entered yard at 1 a m with speed not under control butting collision at water station engineer asleep failure of block signaling and flagging runaway due to failure of air pump neglect to slacken speed on passing over summit and failure to apply haert brakes empty engine encroached on time ot passenger train engineers watch slow not having been wound engineers experience as a runner alsi months signal cleared when track was not clear this was made possible by tho breakage of a connection at an interlocking cabin signalman held neall gent operator accepted order after train had passed rear collision of freight trains in tunnel a comparatively light train overtook a heavier one time interval at last station 10 minutes leading train held blameworthy for not sig by fusee and the following train for running too fast tunnel lining took fire and was damaged 50 excessive peed engine running tender hast spreading of rails roadbed softened by rain track distorted by solar heat broken flange derailed cars wrecked a bridge unknown damage due mainly to ex plo of naphtha and gunpowder failure of bridge bridge damaged by blasting near by at the moment the train entered upon it rails maliciously loosened landslide in the night inspector had detected no indication of trouble roadbed undermined by water from springs not before known to exist switch maliciously misplaced rock slide this occurred on an old railroad it Is believed that blasting 1000 feet distant had fractured the rock so as to permit vegetation to disintegrate it defective track the quarter ending v uh june usual ly shows lighter accident records than any other quarter ot ahls year and this Is generally true in tho present Instance but the principal totals are all larger than in the same quarter a year ago this may in large measure be accounted for by the marked and constant increase in railroad traffic the number of passengers killed in train accidents which fluctuates more man any other item is very much larger than a year ago but there Is marked diminution from the high fig ure reported three months ago in the present bulletin a derailment 33 and injuring 19 and a collision killing 8 and injuring 37 are the extraordinary tra items WA MT ADS BRING ahto |