Show HIDEOUS HAVOC the N Y puckish miah es a compilation of official statistics showing that during the luff thirteen years more than 1900 persons have been killed on oil the railroads of new jersey alone r following g is is tile death roll for tile period reviewed 1969 1876 MO 1870 1 10 1877 1971 M 1878 1871 15 1879 1873 M I 1880 1881 lai 1873 it will be noticed that this shocking aggregate of slaughters is so evenly distributed through thesus the suc cession of years as to indicate that there must be a similarity of causes prod a bifilar I 1 1 1 pondering over what at ta these iese causee might be the N Y sun stitt has hits come to the following conclusions tills this hideous havoc lien then of 1902 1 lives in thirteen y years cannot bo io im 11 to any unus fortune but isdio ia duo cady factors oad of destructiveness which are as likely to operate in the future as in the tile past and even these prodigious figures only in clado a the railroad victims of lew Jers eyTor I foi in id the first place no official record of the deaths is kept in the tile state and tile only information accessible is that which is given by the companies companes in in their annual 11 r reports 0 r is 1 so that there 1 eeme t 6 be 0 absolute ech 0 i way of veri I 1 f tying ing these reports and it is not for tto the interest of the roads to make the records more startling than notorious cases case require aire besides these statistics t sadeq take k no account whatever of the injured and ni maimed almed who according to daily experience must bo be four or avo times a as 1 numerous as the killed a and ad would I 1 increase virease tj the roll rw of bf victims caim 1 to or A A 1 it is found that more than a thousand jersey railroad deaths have occurred in the three cities of newark jersey cit city 1 and hoboken this fact gives a cf clue 10 to the tile main cause of the slaughters which is found to bo be not collision nor running off the track nor tile br breaking eakin of bridges but the dashing of trains at high speed through populous us cities and across highways at grade in other words the greater part of the lives lost were w eio sacrificed to corporation indifference and greed since nothing g I 1 is more certain than that the roads emild be built cither either over or under tinder the street level taking into consideration that JM XV cr raj J i 1 ti n states in the union and that neither the density 0 of the population nor the aggregate ar f its dels is much at alove ove the average e of t the states stater I 1 we cannot help but shudder al at the idea what distressing de ruction of human life is caused in the whole country veritable dieca tombs blau slaughtered before tit alie e altar 00 I 1 on Moly legisla 1 tion 4 state and national be invoked and enforced to compel railroad to io astl sd gu guard i artl their it lines i nes and 1 premises premi iea its jo to protect the lie limbana lim band I and lives of the people |