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Show - T tbem, It is criminal negligence for sny railroad to be without tho', automatic auto-matic block signals. In tlic ninety-four ninety-four caBes in which trains were warned warn-ed against impending danger, undoubtedly un-doubtedly a big percentages, of the warnings prevented 3Tious wrecks and Ihe loss of life. Since the Union Pacific and Southern South-ern Pacific :out of Ogdcn have been equipped with the signals there has been no collision and no very disastrous disas-trous wreck except from some unavoidable un-avoidable accident such as the rierall-j rierall-j inent of a train by a landslide In Echo I canyon. BLOCK SIGNALS SAVED MANY LIVES. William Afhtou. chief engineer of the Oregon Short Line, in an address ' before the state engineers assembled in Salt Lake City Friday, said that last year ninety-four cases where tialns had been stopped for Inspection by the automatic system had been reported re-ported to tho Oregon Short Line. Upon investigation it was found that sixty-five sixty-five of these cases had been caused by broken rails, three from main FA-itches left partly open, several from derailing caused by switch being open, ton where cars had been left too close to the main line, a number because trains were In the wrong block, a few because switches had been broken, brok-en, and several from other reasons. With statistics of that kind before |