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Show I TRAIN WRECKS On Btllldaj a train in Olorado vas itniak bj s landslide and the engineer aud fireman were killed This newi item is made tiir subjed of large headlines in the papers A few years ago, before the block signal system was in operation, opera-tion, th killing oi au engineer and fireman was to he expected ever: few month Now fatalities of thai kind are treated a sensational news. No one improvement in railroading floes so much to make travel toaiparatively safe as the extensive block signals, which do so much to correct the oversight and negl'-ct of thse whose duty it is to make no mistake In the old days, working 09 S train was emplo mmt almost as dangerous as being in tkc Irene he in the Argonue forest. |