TRAIN DANGERS IN AMERICA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1667, 6 February 1913, Page 5

TRAIN DANGERS IN AMERICA.

' ■— 4 —• — ' i 80,123 CASUALTIES IN 1911. ' According to statistics published on December' 17, .America has more train accidents and loses moro lives in railway accidents than any other country in the world. During 1911 a total of 180,123 casualties resulted from railway accidents. Tho Inter-State Commerce ..Commission suggests that "safety first" should be the future rule of train operation,,speed being a secondary consideration where human lives are at stake. . • Defective roadways and lack of safety devices wero blamed for most ,of the derailments of trains, and whilo the Commission admits that its previous suggestion that all railway carriages be constructed throughout of steel is being carried out as promptly as possible, it declares that so long as the_ railways continue to ignore the speed limitations, -use inferior rails, and fail to keep the roadways, in first-class condition, railway travel in the United States will remain extremely dangerous.' The Commission urges that Congress should pass legislation,requiring : all railways to conform to certain uniform and consistent operating rules and thereby ensure the smety .of trains as far as is humanly possible;