Show Suppressing tlc NeTs of a Railroad I t Disaster in Russia V The catastrophe of Kotikoueff was one of the most heartrending of our national calamities A train ran off the line and went headlong into a morass Many of the passengers were badly hurt and more than a hundred killed The accident as was fully waved arose from the unsound condition the permanent way and the rottenness of the piles the engineers and rotenness managers having appropriated to their own purposes the moneys assigned repairs On this becoming known there was a cry of indication from one end of Russia cry the other And the government govern-ment what course did it take Promise a searching inquiry and the exemplary punishment thedelinquents Nothing ofthie sort I issued this circular August 19 18S2 Since the disaster on the Koursk railway several papers have printed grave charges against some of the I employees of the ministry of roads Articles Ar-ticles of this sort have a disturbing character I char-acter their publication will bring on the I offending journal the severest adminis ofending I trative penalties Thus the state forbade t for-bade parents and friends to protest V against the authors of their misfortune I or to Offer an opinion on the best method of preventing further similar disasters I preventng I Russia under the lLarStepnial |