The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-07-12
HOW THEY KILL THEM
Awful Record OF d Years
Casualties on the Rail-
roads Of the
State.
RECKLESS TRACK WALKERS
The Deadly oOupier's Harvest Of
Arms, Thumbs and Fingers
The Hudson and Raierson's
Even Record.
RECKLESS TRACK WALKERS /


railroad accidents ia state that las
Q 900 miles Of road, operated BY 98 cam
paniess Is pzrtacularly inkerestina, ~
cause it suggests which conditions &C
raflrnsdinR are most dangerous 10 psr-
sonal safety. The State Of New 5exsss
compels all companies BIZ law to gige
detailed account Or accidents. This Ia
done, however, II way Is 10 be of little
or no value in reaching The results ms
tended by legislation. The accidents
are, as a rule, fled chronoIogic ard
70 ascertain how many are killed and how
they were injured, the items must
be separated and grouped There : q
no summary prepared ny the Sk&te:
Of all the accidents or even ct thos1 of the
several companies Thfa informHtIon
must be worked out with peaciI and
paper, and If # is carefully done some -
markable facts will be evolved. Ihere'
were 1904 accidents reported, SIT being
fatal. When arranged under their proper
heads it VIII be found that the Hdeadlr
coupler" continues to xeap harvest 81
thumbs, fingers. arms and oecasfohaiiy
foot There were 375 accidents which
were caused By the coupler, 70 Of them
fatal Az rule the record shows tf4E
the fatality from accidents Of this chnrac-.
ter Is slight, but the railway sturgeon wzs
permitted occasionally to sasx off An arm
Or leg.
RECKLESS TRACK WALKERS.
Then the men who walk % ire tracks
perfectly obIivipus to xhe tact tddt traIns
run over them. help to swell up the grand
total Of the dead, for as rule whea
locomotive strikes q man ne only lives
about long enough to know what struck
him There were 292 people struck wilil2
walking on the tracks and 123 of them
were killed o. disd after aeriiert. Tsha
foolish habit Of stepping IN front OF pass
ing trains. in thu mona 81 vAEtf53sr xsf|iv
across fne track before the fraSa comes
s6Ill Continues. The ilgnres show xhs1
20 Darsons have loaf their lives from this
dangerous practice. Six1Tzfo11r who ss1T-
we fhfir Injuries VIII Ias;iss,r "a a., lain
# experience can teach them anv6hfr.n.
Getting on and of nlorinr Trains +
another source Of many fatal accis}euxs
ana resl1lted durfno f.re vF.ns- II, a. {ie1f},S
and ira fniuries. q r.aaforiev Of ti,e,r faf67
ones.
There were peoDle Injured In accf6erta
OF such varied Character rhat thew CEN
be classified. and 100 proved fatal.
NEW JERSEY RAILROAD AID CANAL. co.
Tbe oriv road f5,ss r,,,..Fez any sTr.srs,.
To erenD the ar,sients Il fhe IJnite6 Nav
Jersev Railroad ard Canal ConpaI3y.
There we're 1as aeefdenfs ~, nd ~
hranches. On the New York dSvjsjof1
there were nine persons struck br nassIf.f
trains and killed. f1ffesn Injured. 7xe
kiIIed atTeuuutinu to ret On and 81 rnov-
fnr trains There vsre 148 Academia
which haDpsned 10 en1nlores. while Al
work Counting and MOVING trains. The
NUMBER az fatal cases was ten. The
number killed walking on the 5ract
was a and l22 were injured. On this
road the list shows a large NUM- her OF nm s
known unfortnnates. and il Is safe to say
thar MANY Of them were tourists. or men
stealing rides and iournevinc from pnlie-
lleIDhia to New York. iuuoin1 On and on
morIng trains.
had So killed aud 297 injured. The ou6e
Ter killed 2 ana wounded as Il iniurisx
being serious enough 10 naaks au1pu Sslion
necessary. OF the So struck while work
ing on the track. 10 were XII - Seventh
accidents happened to psrsous who jump
ed on and off moving trains and & of them
were killed. There were Il fuiared ~
jumping in fronr OF the trains. 7 being
killed
OK THE MoRRIs AND EssRx
The Morris and Essex Railroad killed
thirtv-fiye people and wounded slfrhtly
or seriously nipetv-six- The coupler was
the cause az over one-half the apcideutx.
Out Of the ninety-six Injured. lfty-ons
reneivad their misfortune while rouplfar
or uncounling cars. Only two persons
were killed In this way. The cowcatcher
hurled sixteen track walkers into eternity
and crippl ed ten more. There were fo1ir
persons Killed trying to board trans and
ave Injured.
There were SO accidents on the West
Shore the couuler rs usual nIavf M au
important r part TwentTssI f peopie wsre
injured while coupling cars and killed.
The Paterson, Newark and New York
had only s accidents. The only death
vss that Of Mrs. Isabella Bostienan. In
jured on August 10 with James Kenny
and Mrs Claudlne Earl while driving