RAILWAY BUTCHERY IN AMERICA.
The twentieth annual report giving I statistics of the railways of the Un- i ited States records an appalling list' of killed and injured on the various systems for the'last available twelve months. Six hundred and ten passengers were killed and 13,041 were injured, Of the railway employees, no fewer than 4,534 were killed, representing about three per 1,000 and 87,644 were injured, representing as nearly as possiible five per cent. This makes a grand tutal ox 5,144 killed and 100,685 injured. These figures of fatal and other accidents are simply astounding when compared with records of any other country in the world. } They condemn once and for all the materials, and especially the rails and points, used in the United States.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9687, 11 January 1910, Page 7
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126RAILWAY BUTCHERY IN AMERICA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9687, 11 January 1910, Page 7
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