Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-06-02
Casualties |!

laS one hundred and elghty-nVe, against
ne hundred and forty the year previous.
The fatality, however, was In favor OF
$50. The number of lives lost during
hat year, being three hundred and for
y-hve, against four hundred and forty
n 1864. THESE casualties, be 1T remem-
,ered, were the result of railroad accl
tents alone. But the catalogue OF
steamboat accidents, presents slcken-
ng and fearful list of deaths, and multi
atoms resulting IN death, and which Is
still worse, and more to be deplored by
,he sufferers themselves, painful and
lifelong disabilities. The number OF
on our rivers, lakes, and
other navigable waters, during the year
of 1864, amounted to one hundred and
Notwithstanding in the death OF
TIN &c thousand eight hundred and serenity
nine persons; most of them meeting their
terrible fate, by fire and drowning,
without moments previous warning.
But the bloody catalogue Is not
yet filed up. To these are to be
added, two hundred and eight from
accidental drowning, by breaking
through ice, by floods and freshets;
by fording streams, and while bathing.
Then We have a record of seventy-nine
who persisted from the effects of frost
during the winters of 1865 and 1866.
To these may be added more than ticeN-
freight hundred other casualties, occur
ring within the last eighteen months, and
resulting in death and manning for life;
from machinery; runaways; kicking,
goring and biting of vicious animals;
cutting with axes and other mechanical
tools; falls from scaffolds and buildings;
the telling of trees; logging and rafting;
caving in of coal banks and other mines:
being thrown from horses and carriages;
from slipping aud falling on sidewalks
and in the streets; from reckless drlv-
ing of hackmen, omnibus drivers, truck
men, and fast young men; from bites OF
rabid animals; from sun-strOkes, burns
and scalds; from unprovoked assaults of
ruffians, thieves, and robbers and assas-
sins: and from other causes.
The above startling list of almost nine
thousand human beings killed and
manned in in this country, since the com
mencement of 1S64,-and not one OF
these casualties occurring In the army
strictly speaking, is liable to be repeat
ed. If not increased in numbers every
year. =,
These alarming facts. showing the
terrible liability of all to accidents by
flood and field, have been carefully col
ated from records; and may therefore be
depended upon as correct. They have
in no way been exaggerated; but, upon
the contrary, cannot, from the nature
of the subject, come up to the actual
number of accidents. Probably many
hundreds of the minor cases OF INJURY
are never reported; and also many serl-
GUS casualties daily occur, that are new
er heard of, and recorded by news
papers, the source from which the
above statistics have been obtained.
Until within a very recent period, the
unfortunate victims of accidents and
casualties, oftener than otherwise the
results of recklessness, or carelesness
ON the part of others, have had no re-
course, they having been manned for
months. frequently, if escaping death,
have been disabled from pursuing thell
usual avocatiOns; and as consequence,
they and their families have IN many
instances, suffered from want. But
now, thanks to the new form OF lnsur-
ancp. known as Accident Insurance, every
individual can provide against these un-
fortunate contingencies. For the TIL
fling sum of fire dollars on every thOus-
and dollars, a person can be insured
against death, resulting from any acct
dent,-by the "UNTTED STATES ACCIDENT
INSURANCE Co, of Syracuse, n. y
This will give the insured fire dollars per
week if injured by any accident what
ever, and disabled from following his
usual avocations. Or, in other words,
for every fire dollars, person IN the
preferred class of risks, pays as preml-
nm. he is insured In this company
against death, from whatever accident,
in the sum of one thousand dollars; with
a weekly compensation of fire dollars IN
the event of disabling injury. This
amount he will receive each week he IS
so disabled, for the term OF twenty-slX
weeks, or six months.
At the same rate, tlCenty-fce dollars
will insure an Individual of either sex,
in the sum OF fire thousand dollars, for
one year, in the event of death from any
accident whatever, which sum goes to
whoever assigned by the insured; and
also gives a lgeekly compensation OF
twenty five dollars, ifreceiving disabling
injury.
Thus ifa mechanic, farmer, merchant,
or professional man is insured In the
UNTTEDtSTATEs ACCIDENT Insurance Co,
and meets with disabling accident, be
will have the satisfaction of knowing
that ''his salary as going on.
The amount of premium is so trlfilng,
compared with the benefits derived, that
very few men fail to avail themselves OF
this form of insurance. Mechanics,
farmers, professional men, laborers, and
persons of every class, are liable, daily
and hourly to some one of the long lists
of accidents enumerated IN this article;
and should not neglect to secure them
self and their families, when they can
do so, at so comparatively trlfiIng ex-
pense. et
The same company insures persons IN
sums varying from fire thousand to ten
thousand dollars; for periods of from one
to twelve months, and ten years; with
weekly compensations of three dollars
to fifty dollars.
Those in the preferred class of risks
receive, lin the event of an injury the
same amount each week, while disabled,
as the pay for years policy. At the
east, where this form of insurance is
better understood than it is as yet, In
the Western States, it is rare to find a
person of whatever class, who is not in
sured against accidents; and there is no
doubt that when the principal Is gener-
ally understood, every person OF ordl-
nary prudence, who has the welfare of
his 10 In nt hnnrI mill avail himself OF