Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-09-04 | Page 10 | Criticize the Railroad

CRITICIZE THE RAILROAD Washington. Sept. 4. Carelessness) of a flagman, disregard of regulations by a motorman. and 'failure of tho railroad company to provide an ade- I ouate method of operation to insure the safety of trains." were the causes, according to a report of the Interfile Inter-file Commerce commission, made public yesterday of the rear-end collision col-lision on the Pacific Electric railway near Ios Angeles. Cal , on July 13, In which fourteen passengers were killed and 200 injured. The report showed that the division divi-sion on which the accident occurred was operated by time card "without sigmls or orders and with no means of spacing trains except by vision." In the case of this accident the flagman of the train In advance failed fail-ed to notify the rear train and the motorman of the rear train failed to control his speed. The report of Inspector Belnap severely criticized the railway com-' panv for not providing safe methods of operation and suggested the Installation In-stallation of an automatic train control con-trol system. In successful operation on other electric lines.