Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-09-09
guuhnn free press.

More Sausage Meat2-Only fourteen Killed
outright-by the last or rather latest, railroad
accident, and forty or fifty wound ed Inns
would be nothing for great battle, or great
nest;,ance-but for mere every day travelling
excurs;on of men, women and children, going
from one place to another, on ordinary business
18th M thought or intention of either war or
nestilence, it is considerable. And when we
add the fifty or sixty deaths at the Norwalk
drawbridge and the dozen or fifteen on the
Erie road, and the others on the Camden and
Amboy, and the New Haven, and the, who
knows whah--it cyphers up to handsome
sum total.
Al last we believe there is q real panic,
good sound, healthy panic, getting up among the
community, and all about their lives and limbs.
We sincerely hope this panic will prosper-for,
really, we see no other chance of anything be-
ing done to check the present fearful rate OF
railroad slaughter.
We already have heard of several families
intending to 90 into the country, but who, since
the recent thick-coming and fatal disasters, have
declined riskng their lives on the railroads, ana
have chosen to stay at home rather than run the
risk of leaving their children fatheress ana
motberless. AS we said, the feeling is wide
and deep one-it prevades all classes-it amounts
to a panic. Railroad companies must takecar
what the are about, or the people Will become
mad. There will be mobs-tracks will be torn
up-engines smashed-and perhaps suPerln-
tendents and conductors killed, "and no blame
attached to ano one"-for an Infatuated mob Is
almost as dangerous thing as single track
railroad!
Let the railroad companies, therefore, take
warning in time, and not, by their obstinate par
simony, bring on a state of things that VIII pre-
eipitate civilization backwards, to a point lar
bevond the invention of railroads. Let every
company Immediately proclaim its intention OF
having another track through the whole OF Its
route fit is not rich enough,--the most OF
them are.-tO lay it Immediately, let new stock
be issued, let debt be created-any thing, IN
fact-only, let us have every where double-track
railroads, and no such thing as a single-track,
any where at all, on the face ofthe earth! Tins
is the one sole condition upon which railroads
can be suffered to exist. Meanwhile, all out
cry against the conductors, engineers, &c.-aH
coroners, verdctS, all arrests, all trials-are
mere trash, and trash, and worse than useless,
as thew serve to harden all such peoples minds
in the sure belief that they are not to be pun
ished for any carelessness or misdeed. You
never can, in this country get jury to con-
denim severly punish, one man, for the fault OF
another, or of a system. 1t has been tried over
and over again, and always failed.
Why not have great public meeting in the
Park, in favor of double tracks? Kossuth and
Meagher, and all sorts of hungry vagabonds
have had meetings given them there why can't
we have the srme for double track railroad?-
Who speaks?
The Herald closes an article on this subject
as follows:
To show the necessity of legislative interior
ence, by simply pointing out the magnitude OF
the evil for which the outraged public demand
an immediate corrective, as well as exemplary
redress, we have prepared the following table,
showing the number of railroad casultes which
have occurred in these States during the eight
months of the year in which we are advanced.
Here it is
Number of railroad accidents, with the killed
and wounded, during each month of the pres
optu