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Show DISASTROUS WRECK. Th wreok at Lemay on the Southern Pacific proves that human negligence is still a big factor in .railroading. Notwithstanding the safeguard of the block signal, wrecks are still occurring and will continue) to occur until mechanical appliances make the operation of trains beyond the control of those who forget. The block signals have greatly reduced the possibility of wreck, but evidently they must be supplemented by safeguards at the switches. This is the first disastrous wreck in years on this division of the Southern Pacific and we all had begun to believe that the Salt Lake division was secure against accident, but this wreck has disillusioned disillus-ioned us and once more proved the extreme danger which daily faces trainmen on one of the best equipped roads in the United States. |