The St. Johns herald., 1892-06-16
RAILWAYS IN INDIA.
Great Care Taken to Protect the
 People from Accident.
4 We'll Regulated system and 9 Low Mileage Rate-Sman Percentage of Deaths from Accidcnts-A
 Remarkable Record.

It appears that during the year 1S9. only 455 persons were killed and 775 in jure2 Epon the East India railways while only one passenger met his dcst.i by an accident to regular passenger train, being one in the 120,03J,000 ear ried during the year.
 One hundred and ffty-one railway servants were killed, and the rest C. the deaths were those of persons othe- than passengers or servants, there bc ing 64 cases of suicide and 1S6 killee while trespassing on the track.
 This record is remarkable. when it i remembered that the railway system C. India extends from Pcshawar to CGrc Comorin, and from Bombay to Calcutt and Madras, and, with the exception the engine drivers and guards, the O. fcials are, for the most part. natives the country. It is true that very mar of the railroads arc single tracks, aI that on nearly all the lines of railro. the rate. Of speed is slow. Still th statistics which appear in the Cover ment Gazette show remarkable ( gree of discipline in the railway systei of that great empire.
 Every railway track is protected b an iron fencing, and level crossings ar comparatively few, which doubtless ac- counts for the very small percentage O. people killed by their own neglect.
 It would appear that the helt,len Hin doc is a good signal man; and fl ", hoxra fDva.crr, To f9c-. iC tion whether it. would not be better t import it from Calcutta CT Madras than from Kilkenny or Firenze.
 It is curious circumstance that not withstanding the apparent eficien service of the native in railway traffi>. the companies do not seem disposed to intrust him with either the engine driv- ing or the conductorship of train. l. is said the men lack nerve.
 The India railway trains have four classes. First, second, intermediate and third, the natives. of the country usually travelling third class. The first class carriages are luxurious and pro- vidcd with every convenience, and dur ing the hot weather are kept cool by &A sob OlciSo GULL U ment, taking half of the whole carriage, is not intended to carry more than fonr passengers and the sleeping coaches fold up in the daytime so as to form comfortable seats Some first class ear riagcs have a second class compartment adjoinining for the accommodation of servants, and as the journey from Pesh- awar to Bombay or Calcutta occupies at least four days, this arrangement adds much to the comfort Of first class tray cling in India.
 The rates of passenger traffic are: Third class, half cent; intermediate, one cent; second class, one and half cents; first class. two and half cents per mile.
 The number of miles open for railway traffic in India is seventeen thousand five hundred miles and about two thou sand miles more are under construc- tion. The English railway will shortly run as far as the city of Kandahar, and it is not improbable that the State line, now open to Peshawar, within nine miles of the Khyber pass, will be eX- tended to the city of Cabul and eventu- ally meet the Russian railway at Fash kend or Samarkand.
 The government of Kashmir is now in treaty with the British government for the construction of line of railway from Hasan Abdal to Sirinagar, . route familiar to the English reader as that travelled by Lalla Roollh in the imperial days of the Moghul rule.