The Locomotive - Lighthouse Survival Blog

170 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [November,
KILLED. ISJDRBD.
Sept. 7 — Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, East Harwood, Md., lieadend
collision, ......... 12
Sept. 9 — Lehigh Valley, Mumford, N. Y., rear-eud collision,
Sept. 18 — Illinois Central, Mauteua, 111., rear-end collision,
Sept. 20 — Lehigh & Hudson, Lake Grinnell, N. J., head-end collision, .
Sept. 21 — Baltimore & Ohio, Ravenna, Ohio, rear-end collision,
Sept. 22 — Wabash, Kingsbury, Md., head-end collision, misplaced
switch, ..........
Sept. 27 — Grand Trunk, Bellevue, Mich., rear-end collision, .
Sept. 28 — Louisville & Nashville, collision, train jumped track,
Sept. 28 — Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Streator, 111., head-end collision,
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Oct. 10 — Pennsylvania, Whiting, Ind., misjilaced switch,
Oct. 13 — Michigan Central, Jackson, Midi., rear-end collision,
Oct. 14 — Baltimore & Ohio, Cumberland, Md., landslide,
Oct. 15 — Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, Paxito, Kan., head-end collision,
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Oct. 16 — Wabash, Nameaki, 111., train over embankment,
Oct. 17 — Pennsylvania, Wellsville, Ohio, collision on switch,
Oct. 19 — Illinois Central, Kankakee, 111., head-end collision,
Oct. 20 — Grand Trunk, Battle Creek, Mich., head-end collision, .
Oct. 21 —Baltimore & Oliio, Clarksburg, W. Va. , rear-end collision,
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Oct. 22 — Staten Island Rapid Transit, misplaced switch,
Oct. 22 — Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, Mouroeville, Ohio, head-
end collision,
Oct. 25 — Pennsylvania, Trenton, N. J., head-end collision, .
Oct. 26 — Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan, Hamburg, Mich., ran
into sink hole, .........
Oct. 26 — Southern Pacific, Houston, Tex., train jumped track at switch,
Oct. 26 — Chicago Great Western, Red Rock, Minn., train fell through
l)ridge, ............ 3
Here is a gruesome enough list — 72 disasters, with a total of 260 persons killed,
and 841 injured. Yet it is by no means complete, for tliere have been many freight-
train accidents, and many grade-crossing accidents that do not appear in it. Doubtless
a considerable number of employes have also been injured, or killed, in the discharge
of their regular duties. However this may be, the list as it stands is quite long enough
and impressive enough. After such an experience in one season, it would be strange if
thoughtful railroad men have not learned some useful lessons in the art of running
passenger trains safely.
The Corrosion of Iron Stacks.
A Wisconsin correspondent writes as follows: "We notice in your August issue
some jjoints about iron smoke stacks. W^ill you kindly inform us why such stacks corrode?
We have a stack which has not lasted as long as we think it .should, and would
like to know if our methods of using it are at fault. We burn wood and refuse shavings,
mixed with coal, and on some days we use coal alone, and on others only wood
and shavings. The engineer wets down his ashes so that the steam goes into the firebox
or ash-pit. We were told that this causes the formation of creosote. Is that cor-
rect?"