The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-10-04
Big Companies Exerting Greater
Efforts Than Ever Before to
Guard Against Accident-Elab-
crate Mechanical Devices Uti-
I~ized-EmpIoyees Being Edu-
Gated to Avoid Danger.

OF our railroads.
All over the country we lind
great companies. instead of
spending their money In extending their
lines, lettering their equipment. Steel
cars are being added TO the rolling
stock, and elaborate signals, practically
fool proof" have been installed for
the protection Of human limb and life.
AS forming part Of the management
of the railroads today we find safety
experts, whose business it Is to find
flaws, anything which may in the least
degree appear dangerous. Special trains
with safety devices have been con-
structed where the employees Of the
roads a be given warnings" They
are schooled In the laws of self pres
ervation. They are told not to ride IN
the cowcatcher of the engine, as this
method Of travel is almost sure death
II a person SO riding miscalculates his
step, which is so often the case. Dan
gerous ways Of coupling are also point
ed out, while the man whose duties
carry him to the top Of box cars is for
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ger Of being hit by low bridges and
other distractions, unless in the per-
Torrance Of his work he is absolutely
compelled to take the risk.
DEALING WITH TREsPAssERs
While employees are being impressed
with these precautions, passengers and
t~respassers are being protected In every
way that human ingenuity can devise.
OF the 10000 lives sacrificed on the
railroads Of America in a single year
more than half were ~trespassers. Not
all OF these are tramps by any means
Half of them can be classed as useful
citizens" The wanderer who makes
the life of the railroad man burden
some by daring the peril of a stolen
ride rather than walk to his destina-
ton is finding his life made miserable
by the railroad companies. with the
assistance of the civic authorities in
the towns along their lines. The tramps
are In every way discouraged In the
matter of stolen rides, and, although
accidents among their number Is de-
~creasing gradually. they still help
greatly In keeping up the average OF
railway accidents" under which clas-
~silcation the interstate COM
mission places the deaths Of trespass-
ers. While everything is being done
TO prevent this kind of accidents.
national laws have been advocated
which would provide substantial pun-
fshment for persons trespassing on
railroad private right OF way.
The greatest concern of the railroads
Is taking care of those who refuse to
protect themselves. Every barrier pos
sible is being put in the way of tres
passers.
SURPRISE TESTS"
Employees who knowingly take
chances of endangering themselves or
are disciplined % on many
roads. To get at such cases surprise
OF obedience TO rules are ron
Quoted mong all classes of employees.
These take place at unexpected times
and under unusual conditions so as to
reveal promptly just 10 what extent
rules are broken and risks taken.
These tests are not confined to any
class of employees. Truckmen.
.rackmen. station men. trainmen and
Jerks are all checked up with a view
o adding every possible ~precaution
accident. while at the same
improving the efficiency of opera
ion.
To prevent wrecks has been the
facing the railroad from the