Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Fourteenth Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of Alabama: For the Year Ending June 30th, 1894
Of the 146 accidents occurring to others, 56 of the killed and 70 of the injured are reported as trespassers on the companies' trains or right of way, making a total Of 126 persons killed and injured by their own heedlessness. Nine out of the twenty remaining accidents under this head are accredited to Highway Crossings, and Show a decrease in this class of accidents over last year; and as stated in our last report, there are, now numerous satisfactory devices which have been adopted by many Of the railway companies in a number Of the States for the protection of human life at these highway crossings. The number Of passengers carried in the State by the railroads yielding revenue to the companies, were and as there were 4 killed and 77 injured, the average would be one death to every and the injured would be one to every persons transported on the trains. The number of passenger train miles were and that of the mixed trains were giving a train mileage in the State of over which passengers were carried, and has an average} Of one passenger killed for every and one injured for every miles travelled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
