The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-06-09

Exact figures. however .,
u. ~ loI needed to prove that life
le held alta cheap yaluat;on iine - -,
le United States. The death roii III
z OF the railroads. of inJus+r,o, aoi, !,
* general and of disasters such q q
: sne oioGum steamer fire, the Iro
: 9uols IReater fire, and the nnm
5 ners regularly burned to death i
:, ene tenement fire traps Of lafc1
Z cities, show tIlsf kili;no. @ q ,,sa, saags S
beings fs Es{6nS6n ;ns;dnnt.a sss 7
: life inanis. country Thst ThsaeGI aaea;l
aents will happen,''s is trne
enough; but it is only bv verv
eIreuous reasoning that most of
5he deaths from "iniuriesH can ~
De ~ described as accidental - i
4 Ihe Slocum disaster was not
accidental" any more to- ~H ioe
HasDreak OF typhoid would be #
ome water supply of a city We're.
TL aaoWsQ 10 become contaminated
Inc thousands killed, manned
ana injured onsour RAILWAYS and
ia MINES and factories every vao, @
are not the victims of 'tacc;dent1.
sdeg .ae;a,s suifer a the effects of causes !.
W Mmcn are well understood. and
eas eas L results OF which can be nicely
calculated before anv "acn;
GEMS whatever occur MAJ
lIe-preservers of straw, onerate
only hfteen per cent of our rail
Waysfy the block system .nd @ !
2 avaM ss tety appliances as much {
DIS fpossible; make theater EXISTS
SO sma4 that panics in case Of '
llre n,. are unavoidable; place work
ers at dangerous machines and
II IN 9 99anger2us mines, and death 2
ana an injuries are a sure resnIt n t
a1o,.,l .S Inls as is what is being done -.
~sS Gay, and this is whv we 81
,,,ns e more lives than any nation 81
,Susat - 70 waste if it wishes to % ,Isn
M tss,s ,EGrd CIVILIZED as applying to p
ssat b &ays a,a uae Ssasf; 6, !, re re-
ishA - eatsJi 5HsT and YYfHaivS ToHs
f any Ssction with traffic and "a
rackage figures. The fact re- th
Mains, nevertheless, that Enc
sh railways carry twice as MAS. on
as ours do in a year eI
md kill and injure only one-tenth tt
IS many of these passengers. O(
70 put the case otherwise, our il
.a;lroads killed 10, 900 people and
INJURED $4,000 last year. Eng 6
ish railroads in the same year
killed only 1,15O and injured
S, ,785. There is still another
Way of making the exhibit:
One passenger in 2,316,64 is
killed in the United States; one
passenger in 8,461, ,309 is killed y
in Great Britain; one passenger c
in 139, ,74Ois injured in the United v
States; one passenger IN 4IO,o4o
is injured in Great Britain; one
employee in 399 is killed in the
United States; one employee IN {
GIG is killed in Great Britain; one
employee in 26 is injured in the :
United States; one employee IN
116 is injured in Great Britain.
At the very lowest valuation,
these figures show that slaughter
and manning by railways can be
reduced to minimum. There
is no mystery in this. English
railways kill and injure only one
tenth Git is really one. twentieth
| if the relative number OF pas
] sengers is considered) as many
people as are killed and injured
here simply because the English
roads are equipped with safety
devices and systems which our
roads are not compelled to adopt.
On English roads all double
track has the block-signal sys-
tenn. On our roads only an in
significant percentage of double
track is so equipped. On single
track in Great Britain the staff -
or check system universally pre-
walls, and engineers do not enter
a section of road until they re-
ceive check showing that the
section is clear. Head-on and
rear-end collisions as a conse-
quence are practically unknown.
: No such system and nothing, as