Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1915-09-23
SAFETY FIRST"
SAVES LIVES
WONDERFUL SHOWING MADE BY
UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY SYS-
TEN AS RESULT OF "SAFETY"
cAMPAIGN-coMPANY GIVEN A
CLEAN BILL.

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will be given an absolutely clean
bill on Passengers Killed" during
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1915,
in the report of the Interstate Com.
MERGE commission which will soon
be issued. And the number of pas
sengers injured, for the same period,
will show almost negligible in The
Commissions report.
Two yeans ago the Union Pacific
system adopted a motto of Safety
First" Every employee, regardless of
his position, was enlisted in the
work of making the Union Pacific
not only as safe as any other sys-
tenn in the country, but ABSOLUTE
LY safe fer the travelling public as
well as for the employees.
The clean bill which the Inter
state Commerce commissions report
will show is the result of that
safety" campaign.
Not ocre passenger was killed on
the entire Union Pacific system,
from end to end, main line and
branch lime, during the last fiscal
year. In that period 1851 1854 pas
sengers entrusted themselves on the
thousands of miles of branch roads
of Union Pacific, and upon the main
line trains from Omaha to Portland,
Seattle and Spokane, from Salt Lake
to Butte and from Kansas City to
Denver and Cheyenne, and not one
single passenger lost his life, al
though, together, these S,951, 1854 pas
aenecra travelled nearly ONE BILL
LION miles during that year. Not
only does this apply to those passen- !
gers actually ON board the trains,
but it includes those who were pre-
pairing to go aboard, or who were
leaving the trains of the company.
Regardless Of whether the blame !
lay with the railroad, or was due to
the grossest, most fragrant careless
ness on the part of the passenger,
the fact remains that DURING THE
FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE Soth.
1915, NOT ONE SINGLE UNION
PACIFIC PASSENGER WAS KILL
ED.
One of the points insisted upon
by the Interstate Commerce COM
is that, should any passen-
ger die as the result of an accident
While on board a train, or while
either boarding or leaving a train,
hat death shall be charged to train
accidents" So, when the Commission
rave Union Pacific system a clean
ill for last year, it meant that not
My was no passenger killed instant
Y, but that not one died from the
fleet of an accident during the d
ear.
And speaking of accidents, the
lumber of passengers injured ON
he Union Pacific system for the
ntire year, according to the Com
lission's report, was just 399 and u
lie total number of passengers car .
ed for the year was 1861, 1854 These II
951,364 passengers travelled S47,-
1884 miles. None were killed and IL
1T 399 injured. 81
But Union Pacific's Safety First" al
lmpaign is not benefitting passen- o
RS alone. Employees are reaping
returns on the efforts they VI
e making to prevent accidents to VI
ch other. A comparison of the W.
cures show that the number of
sualties in 1918, before the safety NJ
rst" campaign was launched, was WI
ere than cut in half last year. And lie
3 number of injured from acct
nts, for the same years, was just Ia
To be exact, there was las
reduction Of 52.5 per cent in the ia
mpleyes killed" column and of Nc
6 per cent in the employees In
ed. list. Su