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Show ONION PACIFIC IS MAKING A RECORD Largely as a result of the "safety first" campaign inaugurated two years ago, the Union Pacific system will be given a clean bill of "passengers killed" during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1915, in the report of the Interstate commerce commission, according ac-cording to information received at Oregon Short Line headquarters. The report also will show a remarkablo decrease in the number of persons injured on the company's lines during the same period. Two years ago tho Union Pacific system adopted tho motto, "Safety first." Every employe, regardless of his position, waB enlisted in tho work of making tho road absolutely safe for both tho traveling public and the employes. Tho clean bill which the interstate commerce commission's report re-port will show is largely a result of the campaign. During the period covered by the report the Union Pacific carried 8,951,-364 8,951,-364 passengers nearly ono billion miles. Not only does the report apply ap-ply to- passenger who actually boarded trains, but it Includes those who were preparing to go aboard or who were leaving trains operated by the company. Ono of the points insisted upon by the interstate commerce commission Is that, Bhould any passenger pas-senger die as tho result of an accident acci-dent while on board a train, that death shall bo charged to "train accidents." acci-dents." Tho clean bill given the railroad in the report of the commission, commis-sion, therefore, means that not ogiy were no passengers killed, but that none died from the effect of an accident acci-dent during tho period Involved. Tho number of passengers Injured on the Union Pacific during che fis cal year, according to tho report of the commission, was 399 out of the total carried, 9,951,304. But the "safety iflrst" campaign Is not benefiting bene-fiting the passengers alone. Employes Em-ployes are reaping gratifying results In the efforts they are making to present pre-sent accidents to each other. A comparison com-parison of the figures shows that the number of casualties in 1913, beforo tho campaign was inaugurated, was reduced 25.6 per cent. The Union Pacific system, as covered cov-ered by the report of the interstate commerce commission, includes tho main and branch lines of tho Union Pacific railroad, the Oregon Shorl Line and tho Oregon-Washington Railway Rail-way & Navigation company. rf |