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Show Don't go to sleep on the railroad track or the choo choo train Is llko-ly llko-ly to get you. Never take a chance at anything around the cars and you'll die in bed after all. These are somo of the things taught by the "Safety First" mis-5lonar!cs mis-5lonar!cs who go up and down the railroad lines and with stereoptlcon and printing press Impress on em-H em-H ployes of the system the valuo of I never taking a chance. The most sensational way to get killed Is in a railroad wreck, but railroad wrecks kill comparatively few of those who aro Injured In railroad accidents. Fourteen per-6ons per-6ons are killed every day somc-where somc-where in the United States by tress-passing tress-passing on the tracks In the last twelve months reported to the In-terstate In-terstate Commerce Commission there were 10,585 railroad employes killed in the United States through accidents and 200, 30S Injured. Now and then a passenger Is killed In a wreck, but the number killed that way Is comparatively in-significant. in-significant. Nearly every iife lost through trespassing and nearly every life of an employe lost, could have been H saved had a chance not been taken. The chances arc that when a brake-man brake-man does a careless act or when a pedestrian walks on the track in the terminal yards he will escape unln-jured. unln-jured. That is why he takes the chance. Ho doesn't think there is much likelihood of his being killed. The Bureau of Railway Statistics has compiled figures for twenty-three twenty-three years to show the cause of deaths by railroads. In that time only 3.302 passengers were killed In wrecks. In the same period 103,566 trespassers were killed. The number of passengers who were kilied In that period through their own carelessness amounted to 4,-219. 4,-219. In train wrecks and other train accidents 13,630 railroad em-ployes em-ployes were killed. The number of employee killed through their own K fault Is given as 40,497. In addition H statistics show 18,32 8 persons, r.elth- 1 er employes nor passengers were H killed through their own fault. The last class includes persons who are H Injured while standing on station platforms when mail trains are H passing, contrary to printed orders. I MAJORITY KILLED BY TAKING CHANCE. H According to the Bureau of Rall- H way News. 91.2 per cent of all H deaths due to railroad accidents are H the result of taking a chance. Some- H times the man who took the chance H escaped death while another was killed. H As the result of accidental deaths and Injuries railroads aro constantly constant-ly ly in litigation. If a, person is ln-i ln-i jured In a railroad accident he usu-H usu-H ally can get judgment by bringing H suit. Few juries will find for tho HI railroads. It makes no difference H who is to blame, the railroad pays the bill. Hi Another great loss to the railroads Hi from carelessness Is the loss of men. H "When a capable engineer is killed H or disabled through his own care- H lessness or through unavoidable ac- i cident tho road suffers because a 1 comparatively Inexperienced man H1 has to take his place. The new man H is more likely to make mistakes M which will result in more accidents. Safety first committees have been H appointed on many of tho Important H railroad lines in the last few years. H In nearly every case it has been the H result of some particular accident. H One afternoon a few years ago W. Ill C. Nixon, chief operating officer of the Frisco, received word from one WM of his division superintendents that two engineers on that division were fl permanently injured. Both were J"" highly experienced engineers and could take a train over the road in the least time with the least fuel. Both had disregarded the rules of the road. One discovered the head-light head-light on his engine was out of order and went forward to repair it Ho shook the carbon to make It burn U more brightly. Then he tapped It H The rules say lie should wear gog- gles when he taps the carbon, because be-cause little splinters break off and might strike a man in the eye. This engineer was a careful man ordinarily, ordina-rily, but he had been doing that kind of work for years without goggles and had never received an Injury. He took a chance and tho splinter struck his eye. He had to havo the pyi? removed. A few days later a similar accident acci-dent occurred. "We can't afford to lose those men," said Nixon. "Wo must be-gin be-gin to preach safety." A book of rules was drawn up. It was soon found the rules were Inadequate. In-adequate. The rules had been made by heads of different branches of railroad scr ice The m.m In the shops thought of risks his men took and wrote them In the rules. A conductor wrote of the risks trainmen train-men take It was found that men working In danger think little of the danger themsehes. It w.is then decided to have a station agent walk through the shops and pick out dangers. dan-gers. A brakeman walked around ...itlnn .md looked for dangers. .V shopman watched the brakerr.en in the yards, and told them where they took chances with death, and the engineers showed where switchmen risked their Iles every day they w orked. WOMEN ENLISTED IN SAFETY FIRST. At first the railroad men were slow to guard against Injuries. They figured tho railroad wanted to save money in damage suits. The railroads rail-roads admitted there was a commercial commer-cial end to the matter, hut there was a human side to it, too. The higpest financial loss was 1n many good railroad men knocked out of serv Ice. Stereoptlcon slides were mndo and lectures were given at division points The subject was agitated in railroad magazines. Men were told never to take a chance. Lose time rather than take a chance were the orders. Every railroad man was ordered or-dered to become a safety-first advocate. advo-cate. Division superintendents who did not join In the general move wero given their discharge papers. Finally the women were called to help. A prize In the shape of an annual pass to every wife or mother of every railroad man on the division di-vision was given to the division having hav-ing the fewest accidents and deaths for one year. In order that tho divisions with heavy traffic would not work on a handicap, tho prize was awarded on a traffic basis. Divisions Di-visions far out In the West, where there were few trains a day, had to show a percentage of lack of acci- dents In accordance with the percentage per-centage of traffic. The prize was eagerly sought by the women. Every woman on the railroads became a Safety First Committee. Mrs. E. G. Newland of Augusta, Kan., was chosen as chairman of the organization covering cover-ing tho entire system. When the men go to work In the morning on the Frisco the women say, "Be careful now." it carries weight with it, for care means that the women will get annual passes to ride anywhere on the road. Care puts money In the pockets of the railroad men, besides saving their lives. Men don't care so much about their lives, but they do care for money, and when a woman keeps reminding them about the need of safety first they get the idea firmly fixed in their heads. A signal man on one of tho divisions di-visions one day was walking along I he track when he saw a flange of a , wheel lying beside the track. The flange is that part of a wheel that keeps It on tho track while the train is running. The flanges on the other wheels of that car evidently had remained firm, for the car still kept the track. It was none of the signal man's business to worry about that flange. Ho could havo gone on and no ono would have ever known he was to blame should an accident occur to the train that lost tho flange. But the signal man had beea taught a lot about safctv first Ho remembered that a passenger tram had just gone by. "I'll bet It was the Limited that lost that flange," he said. 'The train men don't know It and won't find it out until something happens." hap-pens." STOPS TRAIN WITH LOST FLANGE. The signal man ran to the nearest near-est signal station and had the operator op-erator flash ahead to stop tho Limited. Lim-ited. The Limited stopped and tho wheels were examined. It was found that a flange had been lost from one of the wheels of the baggage bag-gage car. Had the signal man not made it his business to stop the train the car probably would have left the track at the first sharp curvo and the whole train would have gone into the ditch. Many men have been proclaimed heroes by crawling across a brldxo and flagging a train because the bridge was in danger of going out due to flood. They usually get a lot of publicity and a Carnegie medal. med-al. This signal man's work was not so sensational. It was done quietly and none of tho passengers on the train knew there was any danger. Many of them grumbled when tho train stopped. They poked their heads out of the windows and looked down the track. "What are wo waiting at this jerkwater station for?" one of tho men gr untied to his scat mate. ITPPER left, a sign com- monly disregarded. Upper Up-per right, result of riding on an engine hoard, the rider slips and falls and hasn't a chance to escape. Center, reaching between cars to turn on the air contrary to instructions. Lower left, the way thousands are killed every year. Lower right, risking his life at lunch time. "We ought to take this up with the State Public Utilities Commission," Commis-sion," the other answered. The railroad officials, however, honored the signal man. Ho is In line for promotion and his namo has gone up and down the entire system as a man who went out of his way to save lives. He also brought up the score of his division di-vision and he is hoping "his wife will have an annual pass next year. Older railroad men are particularly particu-larly warned to aid in the safety campaign. Young men on the railroad rail-road will follow tho example set by the older ones. The old men get used to taking a chance Many mon are killed In the summer sum-mer because they will sit under n car on a siding to eat lunch so they can be in the shade. Pretty soon an englno comes along and hits the cars causing them to move, killing tho luncher. Many legs of railroad men aro los every year in the yards because the men fall to notice where they walk. Their feet get caught in the frogs of the rails just as a train Is bearing down upon them. Th,o switch turns and their feet are held fast until the train cuts them off. In the book of rules to employes, men are forbidden to rldo on the board in front of tho engine. They are warned not to hang out far when riding on the side Df a car . and are warned to look in the direction di-rection the car is going so they will not strike something. They are warned not to reach through between be-tween two cars because they are In a hurry. The order is for them to wait. Similar rules In regard to safety are given In the shops and around railway stations. CHILDREN CONSTANTLY KILLED ON TRAINS. Of course, the greatest loss to life in railroad accidents is to non-railroad men. Children are constantly getting killed by getting on trains. Ever littlo town has its band of train hoppers. They find lots of fun In climbing on tho trains as they pass by through the yards. In the last twenty years 25.000 children have been killed or maimed In the United States by trespassing .Most of -these were boy train-hoppers. Among the men Working nardest for the elimination of accidents on his division Is C. H. BaltieU, superintendent super-intendent of tho Ozark division of the Frisco. Baltzcll found that a large number of casualties came from car hoppers. He made an agreement with the boys at Thayer, a division point, that ho would build them a swimming pond if thoy kept off tho trains. Tho boys entered tho pct- The result was that the Ozark division won the prize, and the wife of every Ozark division railroad man rides free for a year. The railroad men who have no wives have the privilege of giving 1 1 1 o passes to their mothers or Bisters, A similar prize is given to the terminal with the fewest injuries based on a perrcntag- basis of the amount of traillc. Memphis won tha plize last year from the Frisco. Investigations of the Interstate Conrmerce Commission show that law against trespassing on rail-roadfl rail-roadfl are more important than steel cars. The casualties for the year ending June 30, 1913, which are the latest annual figures in the possession posses-sion of the Interstate Commerce Commission, were 10,964 killed and 1'ii0.30S injured. Tho number of trespassers killed exceeded 5.000. It was found by the commission that it was safer to ride on a train than to walk along a street in New York or Chicago. Where steel cars are used the deaths from wrecks are almost nothing. Several rail-rouds rail-rouds reported lust year that no passengers were killed for twelve months in railroad wrecks. Any number of trespassers were killed. Many of these trespassers were not on the railroad tracks, but wero walking along side when the -train . t, went by. j Pieces of lumber or Iron often n fall from freight cars. A chunk of j coal falling from a tender could easily kill a pedestrian walking n alongside the track. 1 In England there are stringent H laws against walking pn the railroad 1 tracks. In America there Is a law I against walking on another's prop- fl erty, but this law is not enforced when It comes to railroad property I because of the great numbers of M persons living near the tracks who ly trespass on the right of way, i |