Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-05-21 | Page 3 | Majority of Wrecks Caused by Defects

MAJORITY OF WRECKS CAUSED BY DEFECTS Washington ton May 20 O. Defective railroad ran rail road equipment and tracks tracks' were re responsible responsible responsible re- re for tor 68 per ter cent of ot all de derailments de- de in tho the United States in July August anti and September 1912 and antI in those three months month there Were 9 n moro more train accidents Including more collisions and derailments than there were In the same months of or 1911 All train accidents on steam roads road In that time killed anti and Injured an an Increase of ot 87 in the killed and in the tho injured over the tho correspondIng correspond correspond- ing period of ot the tho year before These rhese facts are ore disclosed In the tho accident bul but letin tit r tho the interstate commerce commerce- commission com corn mission for tor tho the quarter ended Septem Septem- September ber 20 20 1912