RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN AMERICA.
KXPRESS TRAIN DERAILED. FIFTY" PERSONS INJURED AND TEN MISSING. Press Associdion-By Telegraph-Copyright. NEW YOKK, February 25 (Received Feb. 25, at 9.28.p.m.) The Pennsylvania (o Chicago express tram ivas derailed at a curve and descended an embankment into the Coueinaugli, a shallow river, near Johnstown. Fitty persons were injured, and 10 are missing.
The Interstate Commerce Commission recently published if s annual report an railway casualties in the United States, from which it appears that during last year 4<!25 persons were (killed and 66,709 wore injured. Of those numbers 418 passengers worn lcillcd and 11,185 injured, and 2807 employees were killed and 55,52+ were injured. There is a great increase of injured in tho last report, over the preceding years, But the- commission makes no statement as to the causes for tho increase, whether it is duo to growing business, efforts to attain greater speed, or increased carelessness of employees. Tho greatest number of deaths and injuries of passenpm from a sinclo cause is given in tho tables ae " from fallm? from curs while (rotting on or off" ; Uio jamo statement is true of dcaihs and injuries of employees.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13837, 26 February 1907, Page 5
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192RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN AMERICA. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13837, 26 February 1907, Page 5
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