Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-03

Cattle shippers who were seen yester-
day agreed that some action to secure
4 protection was necessary. They init
mated that trains which are loaded
with cattle are run with less caution
than passenger trains, because II
/ doesn't cost so much to kill steer rs
1t does to injure a passenger on a first
class train, but they insisted that the
life OF q stockman Is worth just az
much to him as the life of millionaire
is to its owner.
The movement to hold a meeting In
the Chicago Livestock Exchange build
ing some afternoon this week has not
gained great Roadway yet, principally
1t appears, because no one has come
forward as a leader. Live stock COM
mission men feel that they should no:
start the ball rolling and excepting the
score or more of cattle raisers who arc
in the various hospitals about town,
none Of them feels that he can spare the
time to remain in Chicago and keep af-
| ter the roads until they get what they
term adequate protection They claim
they have not been getting this.
Commission men will back up the
| shippers, If the movement is at once
started, for they. too are sufferers, al
though they are hurt only in the pock-
etbook. They demand protection for
the market.
THAT doesn't mean we have no SYM
pathy for the shippers, for we nave"
said Mr. Kelley, of the National Live
Stock Commission company. But in
taking that point OF view we do not
go out of our way to look for trouble.
Today there have been several i'm
promptu meetings in my office. Ship
ers are not easily frightened. but with
such frequent wrecks it isn't every
man who wants to travel with his
stock. You can't blame them"
case suggested was that of G. F.
Cain, of Scranton Iowa. He was bad
ly hurt at the Chicago & Northwestern
road wreck at LaF'ox last Wednesday,
He was brought to this city and is
now at st. Luke's hospital His bro
ther-in-law M. F. Wells, of MARSHALL
town, Iowa. wanted to see the injured
man, SO when he shipped load of
hogs he came down with it himself,
only to be caught in the Cloyerdale
wreck yesterday morning. He says he
is going back home in passenger
coach.
The Iowa Live Stock Commission
Company. Is particularly anxious to aid
the cattlemen in their fight fer protec-
tion because SO many of those injured
have come from Iowa. A member of
the corporation said yesterday:
1--WE certainly need better protection.
Just how it can be secured l don't |
know, for the railroads claim that they |
use every precaution and blame all |
these recent accidents on the fogs. Yet
1T does seem to me that II one section |
of a stock train was stopped there
ought to be some way of preventing
the second section from running into
1t. never worked on a railway but
I think that l could evolve some
scheme such as placing torpedos on
The track, for instance, in a few years
study.
Naturally, a wreck hurts our bust
less, too. A customer wires us that
4 shipment will reach the yards at a
certain time, and we make that ship
nent a part of our calculations in fig
lring on the price of cattle that day.
Of course, though, this is q very small
natter to consider, compared to the
oss of life and the suffering the men