The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-22
The Great Pennsylvania System
Starts Crusade to Lesson
Number of Accidents.
FIFTY THOUSAND DEAD
LAST ELEVEN YEARS
More Than That Number In
jured and All Trespassers
on Railroads.

Trespassng on railroad property IN Yio~
lation OF the law has caused the deaths
OF more than $4,000 people in the United
States in the last eleven years. In this
same period more than $1,000 trespassers
have been injured.
With view TO reducing 10 a minimum
the practice OF trespnssing on It's prop
ertS, the Pennsylvania lines have deter
mined to redoube its efforts to secure
ON It's lines that rigid enforcement Of
the law against trespassing, which. in
foreign countries. has done so much to
decrease the number of fatalities result
ing from trespassing.
In 1907 the PENNSYLVANIA inaugurated
vigorous campaign against trcSpaSS
ing. and. due doubtless TO this. the num-
Der of trespassers killed in 1908 was only
757, In 1909. 7$2 lost their lives in this
way, In the eleven years prior to jan
uary l, 1910, exactly 1872 people who
were on the PENNSYLVANIA lines, right
of-way. in wilful violation OF the law.
along the railroad. We're killed. 1t Is
thus seen that in the eleven years an
average of two trespassers a day have
been killed on Pennsylvania lines prop
erty. This long death roll is every year
charged up to the railroad. even though
those people are killed as result OF their
violating the, law. and under conditions
over which the company has no control:
II is not only tranps who are killed
and injured while trespasslng, though
thousands of them lose their lives in this
class. factory workmen, their wives and
children. who use railroad tracks as thor
oughfares are killed by the hundreds.
That the practice of walking on railroad
tracks is prevalent In Industrial districts
gives added significance to the fatalities
on the Pennsylvania system as a result
OF trespassing. The tracks of the Penn
sylyania are lined with factories, as they
run through the densest industrial sec
tion. through territory which holds more
than half OF the population OF the United
States. Over 10000 treSpaSserS were ar
rested in the year 1909
In 1898, 4063 trespassers lost their lives
on Anne rican railroads; five years later
the number was 5000 and in 1907 the
number killed was 5612-more than fif-
teen a day, These figures are taken from
the annual reports OF the Interstate
commerce commission. Figures compiled
by the Pennsylvania lines alone show
that 465 trespassers lost their lives on
that systems lines in 1899; iSl were
killed In 190i while in 1907 tho number
reached 915-an average of almost three
for every business day in the year.
The Pennsylvania lines have now post
ed its tracks and stationed watchmen to
see that warnings against trespassing
are respected. BY redoubling its efforts
the company is endeavoring to reduce the
number of trespassers who are killed and
injured by an even greater number than
IL has done in the past three years,
The cooperation of city and county
authorities has been solicited in this cam
palgn. Heretofore the actual punish
ment Of persons violating the laws for
bidding trespassing on a railroads g private