Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-07-19

1898 there were In the United States
and Canada sxty.One attempts TO
wreck trains and In the Untel States
alone twenty.one attempts TO rob them
Most Of these efforts were uusucces.ful,
and In no case this year was any
one effort very succcssiuli that
II, the robbers had Encouraging bsd
luck In getting plumber, and the Train
wFeckcrs produced no serious wrecks.
| But tue figures are dis gtceablr. We
think Of This says, the writer, A. a high.
ly civilized c1untry,aud yet We fini iu
slx months sxty-One attempts al
crime far m re- strocious than plumber
INK caravans, and twenty-onc attempts
Vt robbery, b lder ami more dangerous
than the exploit. Of d ok Turpin.
Win such facts utfJre ~, therefore, IL
l. well be a little mpdts', ior these
crimes have not been cjufueI to the
least civilized parts OF tho United
statys; anu this brings ust to the queH-
tim OF geographical distribution.
Massachusetts aud Illinois by the
showing made head the list In the
number Of attempts to wreck trains auu
OniI comes next Ia these three
respectable states tnirty.oue per cent
OF All such crimes was concentrated,
aud New York fIllUws next IN Ordot
This curl ~ circumstance may be eX-
piainul partly by the great tfail mile
age In those states. Toe attempts at
train wrrcking were morc numerous,
because the trains we're more humur.
uus. Probably q mofc M lUftaut eie.
mcnt l. tho TACT that many u ,host
Efforts u wreck trains are maize by
tr mp, who naturally meet those
states IN which the distance IN not to-
long between pie, 10 my notniug
u drinks. The rgenious ttatfsucisu
Of crmos may bo disposed to carp
tuis speculation further, tut the writer
IA content with the explanations sug
gtsted.
There Is another interesting phase
Of tno subject In the geographical DIS
triuution VI the attempts III Train tOu.
buy. La tnis Department Of the sub' |
jtct We are SHOWN mat there 10 IA,
same number OF THESE attempts in Iowa
an ia the 1 dian r,uu,yry anu OAla.
homa t,keu together. Texas follow
next, AM thvn Kansas Ruu Nebraska.
In Tact, sixiy.seven per cent Oi a.
train TvbUefivs and attempted traiu
fObJvues la thu UmirI states ar,
iuuud IA these four states aud tcfritu.
fivs. q. cOuIsr, say our cOtrmpufary,
the popuiatiUu VI tue lnIiau lvirtufy |
auu OKianOma IL not cuoi,e,gnd lexas
has IA large seml-ctimlnal element in
It's popuiAtioL; Tut how snsli we ox.
PLAIN the tact tuaI kansas, Nebraska |
anu Iowa furnish ~ many Of the TRAIN |
r.bOerlos aud that more nave occurred |
ia Iowa thau Ia any other one s.a,t2 |
TINS IL Une Ol the "cJnuhdrums" thai
iho NEWS will not attempt W solve, ~
l,nst not touny.
There In unu tning that the writer.
SPOKE If overlooked IA his tamitca.
uOus OF CRIME on thu Tai.-tuo tecuJbs
Of tuu county where such events AZ,
elIner very rare or do not hapl EN- at ali
Of late years. Pefhups he tor sucl 10 Il
lawyer Or has thv iasliuots VI one auu
OILY started ,ut to present one side Vi
lhe cast; OF II may DO that there ATE NO
such actions. There is,however, such
II scouoh-our own Utah. We leau
the county IA a good many Respects,
u d the absence Of traiu rVubing Anu
train wreckiug Ia not counted the least
VI such ioulurVd.