FROM the quarterly return, issued yesterday by the Board of Trade, of the several accidents and casualties which occurred upon or in connection with the railways, and in consequence of operations conducted upon their premises, we find that the total amount of personal damage sustained during the first three months of this year is represented by 220 persona killed, and injuries, of more or less severity, to 1,692, Deducting from this aggregate nine fatal occurrences and 921 injuries caused by operations not connected with the primary and direct purpose of travelling1, the number of persons killed and injured in the actual course of public traffic was 220 and 111 respectively. Subdividing more minutely these totals, five passengers were killed in collisions between passenger and goods trains, and is by accidents from other causes. Chief among the last named we notice one death from falling between the carriage and platform, one each from attempting to enter and alight from a train in motion, and five while crossing the line on the level at a station. Besides these, 14 persons were killed and two injured through incautiously passing over the railways at recognised level-crossings. Six individuals selected the opportunity of a passing train as a convenient mode for committing suicide, and 74 were killed when trespassing on the lines and using them as the most direct means for walking to their destination. During transit as passengers, 86 persons were injured and 124 sustained injuries from other causes then the pure and simple railway accident. Seventy-nine of these accidents occurred through carelessness irj alighting from trains, and a majority of the remainder through the incautious use of the level-crossing. Of the railway servants, 108 were killed and 521 injured during the same period, chiefly through operations connected with shunting and the making up of trains. It is curious to observe that three men were killed and 13 injured through falling from their engines while travelling, and one was killed and seven severely injured by coming in contact with toe masonry of the bridges under which the train passed. Of miner occurrences the failure of 55 engine axles and 242 tyres and the running over of 30 animate are worthy of remark as introducing a disturbing element in the procession, of a train, but as neither loss of life nor injury resulted these are classed as inconsiderable casualties.
Daily Chronicle, June 4, 1885.
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