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Show DEADLY AMERICAN RAILROADS. In One Year J76.MO Pertent Are Injured In-jured While Traveling, llerlln llerr Hurley, an official of th archive bureau o( the l'rustttn railway administration, baa pirparrd a comparative lablo of atallatlca of those killed nd Injured by rallwa) In larlout countries. He finds that both absolutely und relatively tbe rallroada In Iho United Btales are the moil deadly Tit United Stalct ha more mileage than nil Ritrope but even taking that Into connldeiatlon tbe United Blalet hold pre-eminence In proportional flgurea Out of every thousand railway employe tho ratio of the cumber Injured each yoar is aa followt- United States. 41 1. Swltierland. 2S3; Kngland, IIS, Hel-glum, Hel-glum, 11; (Jennany, 2 4 Out of every ten thoiitand employ tho relathe llguret of killed nr Untied Stall, 2C.1, Kogltml, li.2; Swltierland. 8 2. Ituaaln, TH, Ilrltlali India, C7; Ilelglum. 4 1. llerr Hurley finds that In a single. year tbo fiscal year of 1092 .170.6011 persons were Injured In tbe United State, of whom 00.000 were m-ployet, m-ployet, and 9,800 killed, of whom 3.C00 wctu employes. |