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Show I ACCIDENTS CUT I BY SAFETY WORK Over 38,000 Lives Have Been Saved on Railroads in 13 Years CHICAGO, Jan. 34. More than 3 8.-000 8.-000 livos have been inved on the rati -i-onde of the I'ntted States as a result DC the organized Safety work eirrle.1 on during thirteen years, according to an analysis rnade at the headquarters of the national safety council here of roalroad statistics from 1906 to 1911 compiled by Slason Thompson of th bureau of railway news ana statist k-5. the council announced to-lay. The national safety council estimat-od estimat-od i ho number of lives saved on th bail! of the ratio of the number of rtOna killed e ach y ar to the freight tonnage carried during esEch year. l"r example, in 1906. 10. fils persons were Killed on the railroad, and l.31."' "00 tons were (ferried In 1919, 6,976 persons w ere killed, while '.' . 1 .' J rons were carried. On this basis or comparison there was an actual saving of 6,928 lives during 191?, as compared j ith 1 !(. This proc, v ppt.'-'i io the figures for each "f the Interveners Interven-ers lug years, and the total sum of ItVea saged as determined by the national I safety council wu 38, oil. In other words it the number oi persons, killed in railroad accidents during each of: the last thirteen years had been in the ame ratio to the tonnage carried, asi were fatalities In 190. 38. 621 more persons would have been killed In rail-. B way accidents than were actually Killed. I STRIKING K i i l IOXS. Sbme other striking i-evel.it Ions of the railroads' accident Statistics arc. wrought out in the council's study.) oaraeJ : That the number of i" rsOUe killed In 1 railway accidents during 1919, i"75, la the lowest on record in the iv nty years since 1 899. That 1 25.021 miles of railroad lines nearly half the mileage f thi intry, were operated without a single passen ger being killed In b train ddeut on these lines during 1919. . That a mileage greataer than the combined railroad mileagi of ;n:it Britain, Germany, France and Austria-; Hungary, was operated during 1919 without a Single fatalltj t a paasV ger in the 147,120.738 Jotirneys iccord-ed. iccord-ed. the average Journey being forty-1 four miles. That the number of In lured in ratl-j way accidents In 1 1 1 y . HT.ois, was u. lowest on record slnoe 1910. FEW PASSENG1 RS KM I.' D. That fewer puasengers were killed I in 1919 than in isss. although 1 ( u thos? years passenger mileage locreas-ed locreas-ed more than 3Ci per cent and brelghl ' tpnnage increased more than " K pe; cent. In 190C, one passenger was klll-e klll-e for every lsZ.2vl.4s pass, liters c.,r-' rled ine mile; In 1919 one Was killed toi I very 475.C9S.304 jasiengers carried car-ried In one mile. A noteworthy decrease in the number num-ber of railroad employ r killed was mad'- in 1919 as enrnpored with the preceding year. In 1918, with 1.897,-"41 1.897,-"41 men employed, 2,759 were killed; an average of 1 45 per 1000 employed. In 191!'. w ith l,9S0,r,K men emplo; d. 1. :;( v killed, an average of 0.86 pe." 1.000 employed. |