Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-22
SOUTHERN EXTENDS ITS
sAFETY-F|RsT CAMPAIGN
Bulletin Warns Drivers OF Automo-
biles to Use Caro- in Cross
ing Tracks.
CAUSE OF MANY ACCIDENTS
Only One Train Passenger Killed on
Entire System Last Year, While
Twelve Met Death at Grade Cross.
ings-Coal Mine Report.

In further effort to make '"saf ety
hrst' reality. not only in guarding
the lives OF employees and passengers
but in protecting the general public
the Southern Railway has inaugurated
Il campaign to bring Automobiles and
drivers OF other vehicles to a realiza-
ton Of the dangers OF reckless disre-
gard OF human life at railroad grade
"'ossing". During the fiscal year end
lhS Jun" 20. the Southern carried more
than $1,000 900 passengers with only
one fatal injury to a passenger while
on train. and this accident was due
TO the passenger standing on the plat
form of a car. in violation OF the safe
" first warnings. Not one was killed
Iii train accident.
During the same period twelve per-
sons riding In automobiles were killed
in accidents at public highway cross
ings. and each OF these lives could have
been saved had the driver of the car
observed the caution signs, a statement
By the company says. In all there
were siNty-nine automobile accidents
at Southern Railway crossings. In adj
dition TO the twelve persons killed,
fifty-eight were injured.
The property, franchises and all
other rights OF the Wabash Railroad.
a se2oooo.ooo corporation. have been
SOLD at a public auction held in ST.
LOUIS under decree of the United
states Court, to n joint REORGANIZATION
committee of the roads creditors. The
price paid was sls.ooo,ooo. The action
was under foreclosure proceedings to
satisfy mortgage OF $4,000, 900, of
which the Equitable Trust Company of
New York Is trustee
Less coal was mined in Virginia in
1914 than In 1913. but more than in any
other year. according to figures just
given out by the United States Geo
logical Survey. The output in 1914
was i.e59.535 short tons, valued at
sS.o32.'ts The decline over 1913 was
S6S.533 tons and ss2ooo5
The principal reason for a decrease
In the output was a less demand for
cooking coal. The State stood high
last year in the quantity of coal pro-
duced per miner, the report says.
The number OF men employed In the
coal mines of the State increased from
s.l62 in 1913 to 9.1s3 in 1914. and the
average working time decreased from
ESQ days to o35.
The average production per man in
1913 was 964 tons and In 1914 was S6S
tons. The average daily production
per man was greater in 1914, being
3os tons against 3.+4 tons In 1918.
Judge William F. Rhea. of the State
Corporation Commission. was advised
Yesterday that in accordance with his
SSSNioA VIC Vi lHe lO"H Oh
Nirso, In Lunenburg County, Will be
changed to "Virson," so as to connect
Its name with the three railroads
whose lines are almost parallel at that
point-the Virginian. Southern. and
Norfolk and Western. The present
name of the town was taken from the
Virginian and the Southern.
The tracks Of the Virginia Blue
Ridge Railway have been completed
from Tye River through Nelson County
TO townsville, a distance Of thirteen
miles, and Is being pushed on to Mas
sizes Mills, nine miles further. The
promoters are arranging now for the