The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-09-21
RESULT OF RAILROAD POLICY
safety First" Lessons Loss OF
Life.

The Union Pacific railroad system
will be given an absolutely clean bill
on Passengers Killed" during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1915 in
the report of the Interstate Commerce
Commission which will soon be is
sued. And the number of passengers
injured, for the same period viii show
almost negligible in the Commissions
report.
Two years ago the Union Pacific
system adopted motto of Safety
First Every employe, regardless of
his position, was enlisted in the work
of making the Union Pacific not only
as safe as any other system in the
country, but absolutely safe for the
travelling public as we'll as for the en-
ployes
The clean bill which the Interstate
Commerce Commission's report will
show is the result of that safety"
campaign.
Not one passenger was killed on
the entire Union Pacific system, from
end to end, main line and branch line,
during the last fiscal year. In that
period 1851 1854 passengers entrusted
themselves on the thousands of miles
Of branch roads of Union Pacific, and
upon the main line trains from Oma-
ha to Portland, Seattle, and Spokane,
from Salt Lake City to Butte and from
Kansas City to Denver and Cheyenne,
and not one single passenger lost his
life, although, together, these $751;
364 passengers travelled nearly one
billion miles during that year. Not
only does this apply to those passen-
gers actually on board the trains but
it includes those who were preparing
to go aboard or who were leaving the
trains of the company. Regardless OF
whether the blame lay with the rail-
road, or was due to the grossest, most
| flagrant carelessness on the part OF
the passenger, the fact remains thai
during the fiscal year ending June
Both, 1915, not one single Union Pacif-
ic passenger was killed.
/ One of the points insisted upon b,
the Interstate Commerce Commission
is that, should any passenger die al
the result of an accident, while OF
l board a train, or while either board
ing or leaving a train, that dealt
shall be charged to train accidents
So, when the Commission gave Uniol
Pacific system clean bill for las
year, it meant that not only was n,
passenger killed instantly, but tha
not one died from the effect of al
accident during the year.
And speaking of accidents, the mum
Der of passengers injured on th
Union Pacific system for the entir
year. according to the Commission
report was Just 399 and the tota
number of passengers carried for TIL
year was 1881 1854 These 1881 ,36
: passengers travelled 847,93S,544 miles
None were killed and but 399 injured.
. But Union Pacific's Safety First
campaign is not benefitting passen
gers alone. Employees are reapin
handsome returns on the efforts the
are making to prevent accidents I
each other. A comparison of tn
figures show that the number {
casualties in 1918, before the "Safet
First" campaign was launched, wa
more than cut in half last year. An
the number of injured from accidents
for the same years, was just quar-
tered To be exact, there was re
duction of 525 per cent in the ZEN
, ployes killed" column and Of 25.
per cent in the employees injured
list.