The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-06-30
More Accidents.

We transfer the following article upon
railroad accidents from the Cincinnati
Enquirer. into our columns. As is stated
the newspapers have done much to pre-
vent carelessness of conductors and oth r
officers on the cars; and yet we have men
SO wise that they immagine that newspa-
pers are Of no euth{y use. But to the
article.
For short season af5et the terrible
series of railroad accidents in rapid sue
cesSion terminating in the horlid catas-
trophe at Norwalk, CT, and the indignant
expression of public opinion to which they
gave rise, there seemed to be more care
in the management of the roads, and for
a time, at least, the daily readers ofnews-
papers did not find the usual heading
of another railway disaster-loss of life,
under the column set apart for the collec-
ton of latest in diligence. But we are
an exceedingly progressive people; events
succeed each other with great rapldity
what is new and startling to-day is for
gotten tomorrow; the memory of those
horrible calamitics was ctTaced from the
public mind by the lapse of time; those
connected with the management of rail
roads socn forgot the impressive lesson of
care and caution, which they were SO well
calculated TO teach, and, relapsed into
their old reckless and censurable habits,
of being apparently quite indifferent to
the fate of travelling public, over whose
personal safety it was their business to
watch as they had assumed that RESPONSE
bilitw
| While coroncr's iurics were inyestigat-
ing the conduct Of culpable railroad otfi-
cials and the press was laundering It's
denunciations OF their conduct, and was
calmorous that justice should be meted
out to them by the criminal court, they
paid more attention to their duties, ana
people were transported from one place
to another wish more security; but this
only lasted few days. As soon as the
noise and excitement subsidized We find that
the railroad murders recommended, and
within the last week no less than half a
dozen collisions and disasters, all Of
which were caused by carlessneSs and at
tonQe1 IN GGcn instance Win loss OF lIIe
and limbs, have taken place upon our
travelling thoroughfares. 1t has, fortu
nately. so happened that in none Of them
was the destruction Of life as great as in
Norwalk or Chicago MURDERS, but tie
railroad managers are entitled to no credit
that they were not; they eyinced the same
degree of carlessness and mattention to
their duties that was manifested upon
those memorable occasions, end if the
circumstances were not so proportions in
the recent instances for a wholesale
Slaughter of the passengers, no thanks
are due to tkem as they did all that they
could to bring about such dep1orable
result This late series OF massacres only
exhibits in a stronger light the necessity
of al our State legislatures passing some
stringent enactments regulating the man
agement Of railroads, laying heavy pecu-
mary damages upon companies for every
life or limb sacrificed making it specific
sum to be obtained in every instance by
a suit, requiring certain regulations to be
observed in going oyer bridges, passing
curves, having the necessary number Of
signal men with flags established along
the road to warn trains of any danger,
and such o.her judicious rules tie obser-
vance of which would render accidents Of
more unfrequent occurrence.