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Show Few Deaths on Railroads. The excellence of the Irish railway administration from the point of view of safety Is shown by a return which has Just- been issued giving the number num-ber of deaths and other accidents on the railways of the united kingdom for the three months ended June 30 last. There wero 220 persons killed and 1,740 injured during this period In tho three kingdoms, and it is gratifying grati-fying to note that not one of the fatal accidents occurred on the Irish rail-ways rail-ways and only five persons were injured. in-jured. These five were all railway employes so that not a single railway passenger was killed or injured in Ireland during the "--v. months. |