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Show RAILROADS HEAD THE DEATH LIST Fatalities Among Steam Railroad Rail-road Employes Due to Accidents Ac-cidents 53 4-10 Per Cent. New York. Dec. 19. The "safety first movement" has made consider j able progress in this country, but recent re-cent figures of the census bureau show that there Is still urgent need of education and training to cut down ! the number of fatal accidents Steam railroad employes stand at he head of the list in the percentage! c! r.eaths from accidents in the total number of deaths from all caused In various occupations, according to the j latest reports. Of the number of deaths among steam railroad era ployee who are in active Bervtce, 53 4-10 per cent are due to accidents. This does not mean that more than half of the men employed on railroads rail-roads died from accidents. The fig-iu- merely apply to the number of deaths caused while the men are ac lively occupied In the operation ot luUroads. and docs not apply to deaths from various causes after the men have left the roads or have been superanuated. oo |