ACCIDENT TO AN EMPTY COAL TRAIN
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Identifier: ourironroads00will Title: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidourironroads00will">Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration Year: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1883">1883 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1880">1880s) Authors: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorWilliams__Frederick_Smeeton__1829_1886">Williams, Frederick Smeeton, 1829-1886 Subjects: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectRailroads____History">Railroads -- History https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectRailroads____Great_Britain">Railroads -- Great Britain Publisher: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon___Bemrose___sons">London : Bemrose & sons Contributing Library: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorUniversity_of_California_Libraries">University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorMSN">MSN View Book Page: https://archive.org/stream/ourironroads00will/ourironroads00will#page/n456/mode/1up" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Book Viewer About This Book: https://archive.org/details/ourironroads00will" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Catalog Entry View All Images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidourironroads00will">All Images From Book Click here to https://archive.org/stream/ourironroads00will/ourironroads00will#page/n456/mode/1up" rel="noreferrer nofollow">view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: the safety of the public. That railway accidents areserious enough when they do take place, goes without saying.When steam locomotion began, a coachman is said to have drawna distinction between coach accidents and railway accidents thus : Why you see, sir, if a coach goes over and spills you in the roadthere you are ; but if you are blown up by an engine, where areyou ? The scene represented in the engraving, of an accident A RAILWAY ACCIDENT. 437 that happened to an empty goods train, may bring home to themind of the reader the realities of such a contingency. In view,however, of the accidents on railways to passengers, from causesbeyond their own control, we make bold to utter—what ourreaders may at first regard as a startling paradox—that, afterall, as things now are, it is safer to travel by raihvay than tostop at home. Now is this statement true or untrue ? Let us think for a moment of the number and the diversityof the casualties that occur to people who are not travelling Text Appearing After Image: ACCIDENT TO AN EMPTY COAL TRAIN. {From a Photograph.) —casualties that do not happen to them when they are travel-ling. A person seated in a railway carriage is certainly free,for instance, from any danger of tumbling down stairs andbreaking his neck, or of slipping over a piece of orange peeland dislocating his spine, or of being blown up in a coal pit, orof being torn by machinery, or of being burnt in bed, or of beingthrown from a horse, or being run over, or being run away with,or getting drowned. Not very long ago it was mentioned in thenewspapers how that a lad of sixteen became entangled with a 43^ OUR IRON ROADS. cows tail, and was dragged about a field by his leg till he wasdead. A dog fell into a London dock, and a neighbour, whowas passing, offered his aid in the rescue. In doing this thelatter took hold of the hand of the owner, leaned over the sideof the dock, and lifted the dog up to his master, who was sodelighted to recover his property that he let go the hand of its Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. -
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