The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-10-02
The Price of Carelessness.

The commonplace gains enormous
" in impressiveness when familiar
and long-recognized facts are col
lected and tabulated. Fourth of July
accidents were regarded as inevitable
and of comparatively small import
ance until The Journal of the Am.
erican Medical Association under
took the systematic collection and
compilation of the statistics. Pre-
scented in the aggregate, they shock
ed the nation. The American people
have long been accustomd to &C
counts of railroad accidents in the
public press. 1t is only the occasion
al accident of startling character
or unusual magnitude which arouses
comment. The public does not APP
preciate the enormous toll which
is paid every year in loss of life and
limb because of avoidable accidents
on our railroads.
Accident Bulletin so, just issued
by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, contains a summary of the
accidents resulting in personal in
juries caused in the operation of in
terstate railways during the months
of October, November and Deem
Der, 1918. The facts presented are
30 appalling that if they were found
anywhere else than in government
publication they would be regarded
as extreme exaggerations. During
these three months, 1882 persons
were killed and 50,776 persons were
injured in connection with railway
operation. OF these, 191 were kill
ed and 1926 injured in train acct
dents: 2,675 were killed and 81
769 injured in accidents other than
train accidents, such as fires, floods,
landslides and explosions affecting
the right of way, and accidents in
connection with railroad operation
other than those of trains and road
way, while III deaths and 29,0O7
injuries were industrial accidents to
employees working on tracks, bridg-
es, stations, enginehouses, shops,
wharves or elsewhere. OF the 2,792
persons killed, thirty-four were pas
sengers killed in train accidents, and
1877 were employees killed in train
accidents. Eighty-five passengers
were killed from all causes and $50
a total of SIS passengers and EN-
ployees. The $50 other persons kill
ed included tresspassers, non-tres-
passers and employees not on duty,
while III employees in addition were
killed in Industrial accidents not con-
nected with railroad operations.
Detailed tables showing the
cause ana character OF the accidents
are most interesting and illuminate
ing. For>ihaonoe, Of he o1,769 per-
sons injured through train and 9TH
err accidents, five persons lost their
eyesight. ninety lost arms, forty
seven persons lost their hands, 213
persons lost. legs, 143 persons lost
feet Many OF those crippled will be
incapable of supporting themselves
for the balance Of their lives and
will consequently become depend
ents. The total loss OF working time
due to accidents is not shown. With
over fifty thousand persons injured
in three months however, the econom- |
ic loss must be enormous. At this !
rate there are probaly nearly twelve !
thousand persons killed and over two /
hundred thousand persons injured /
every year on our roads. The major /
ity of these accidents are avoidable |
either through proper safety de- |
vices supplied by the operating COM /
pany or through care in operation .
on the part of employees. The price .
eeid for careiessness as shown by
the official statement of fact is too
enormously heavy to be tolerated.
There is more Catarrh in this section or
the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pronounced il a
local disease and prescribed local reme-
dies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced ii incur
able. Science has proven Catarrh to be
constitutional disease. and therefore re-
quires constitutional treatment Hairs .
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by +. j. .
Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio. is the only /
Constitutional cure on the market. 1t Is /
D. taken internally. II acts directly on the |
blood and mucous surfaces of the system. |
They offer one hundred dollars for any |
case IL fails to cure. Send for circulars |
and testimonials.
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sold by Druggists, 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
What Democratic Rule Has Cost.
The actual figures showing what
the country has suffered under Demo
cratic rule form a most impressive
indictment Of that party. Let us
quote a few of them, comparing