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Playing on the Railroad
"Safety Last" could very well be the motto of
the thousands who trespass daily upon the
track of railway companies. In the last
twenty years, records show that 86.733 have
been killed and 94,646 have been injured by
railroads. These totals do not include those
who have been killed in wrecks, but merely
those who have been killed or injured while
crossing tracks, stealing rides, gathering coal
and doing other things that fall in !he general
classification of trespassingon rai'road property.
Railroad officials estimate that of the
thousands who are killed each year along
railroad lines, less than ten per cent are engaged
in the perilous pastime of "hoboing";
most of the casualties result from the negligent
action of men, women, and children in
walking, working, or playing along railroad
tracks.