The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-29
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First published in paily Leader
April 8, 19OS)
CORPORATION COMMISSION OF
OKLAHOMA.
Proposed Order No, p.
TO All Railroad Companies or Com
panies Operating Street Cars Within
the State of oklahoma;
Notice is hereby given that In the
office OF the Corporation Commission
OF the state Of Oklahoma. in the City
OF Guthrie. on the sixth day Of May
1903, at 10 O'Clock a. m, the Commits
sion win hear any objections which
may be urged against the following
order, rule. regulation and
requirement.:
Cd All railroad and railway com
panles and street car companies oper-
ating within the State of Oklahoma,
sb \ at once. upon the happening OF
an accident send telegraph report 10
the Commission at its office IN Guih-
rie. Of the following classes of acct
dents:
Report BY Telegraph.
(a) All accidents resulting in loss
of life or limb or serious injury to
passengers or employees.
tb) All accidents occurring at
grade crossings, resulting in death OF
serious injury of any person.
(c) All derailments of passenger
trains. or locomotives, or cars in pas
senger trains.
Cd All collisions involving freight
.or passenger trains. whether resulting
lin loss of life or not.
te) An explosions OF locomotive
boilers, and all accidents to locomotive
boilers resulting in death or serious
injury to any person.
(f) All bridge failures.
The telegraph report must show the
date, time and place and kind of acci
dent, the train or trains involved, the
number of passengers killed or in
iured, If any.
In claGs "E' the notice must show
number of locomotive and the place
where the boiler can be examined
The provision respecting derailmeni
does not apply to minor de-ailments
or electric cars in city or village
streets.
Report BY Mail
90 Every accident. whether COY
cred in a preliminary notice by tele
graph or not shall be reported to the
Commission npon a form appended e
this regulation Immediately after cir
cumstances attending accident shall
have been ascertained
90 An accident occurring on a rail
road or a division used Jointly or il
common By two or more companies
shall be reported by the company
whose superintendent has immediate
charge OF the road or division in ques
ton.
(4) A collision (as at crossings) o
the trains of two different companies
shall be reported by both companies
The report of such collision shall be
plainly endorsed at the top Crossing
or Junction"
(5) An accident on a private sid
ing or a private track shall be reported
By the railroad company 10 which the
engine at work on the siding belongs
Co Accidents TO persona resulting
IN immediate death, or death within
forty-eight (4S) hours from the time
OF accident shall be reported on the
blank form in the column headed
KILLED. All other accidents to per
sons, including those resulting II
death of the person Injured after al
interval of more than forty-eigh
hours from the time of accident shal
be reported In the column HEADED
injured in daily reports and upoI
the death Of any injured person ate
forty-eight hours a supplemented re
port shall be made stating the time
and place of the death and the natur,
OF this injury from which such persoI
died.
(D Accidents to employees in re
pair shops construction shops or Othcl
places remote from the railroad an,
not connected with the transportation
department, should not be reported.
t9 Reports shall be numbered con
lsecutiyely beginning with each calen
dar year
90 The term freight train" is Il
include mixed and all other trains, en-
gines or parts OF trains OF any kin,
which are not included under epassen
ger
u0) Give in the space provided, th'
time that the accident occurred. I
within an hour OF sunrise or sunset
say whether daylight or dark.
an Persons killed or iniure,
should be classified as shown on th'
form Glass A TO include all passen
gers On passenger trains. Class B q
include passengers travelling on freigh
trains Glass BIB TO include persons
mot passengers on passenger o
freight tfains) who are customari3
carried or allowed on trains unde
special arrangements or privileges
such as postal clerks express mefT q
gers. conductors. pOrters and o'he
employes ON Pullman cars; emplCye
on special or private cars; newsbOys
baggage or transfer solicitors. ped
dlers. live stock tenders. men not n
iemploy of reporting company Ia charg
lol locomotives. cars, machinery on othe
freight. Glass 4 anG &C 10 include eu
ginemen. liremen. motormen, conduci
ors end brakemen IN road serylct