Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Another R. R. Accident,- The accommodation train for Alton on Tuesday night, ran upon a cow lying on the track, a few miles north of Collinsville. The locomotive and tender were thrown aside and several freight cars came smashing after. The passenger car remained upon the track. The fireman was instantly killed and the wood-passer was not expected to live. the engineer, Geo. Senior, had his left leg broken in two places. The names of the wood-passer and fireman had not been learned. We learn that applications to the Company for these posts of danger are very numerous, and that inexperienced men ready to blunder on to destruction for almost any compensation. but under the most skillful management, accidents, such as noted above, will be of frequent occurrence so long as open lodgings are offered to all manner of four-footed travers.
It might be well if fences can’t be afforded along the line of roads, to fence out a few small patches for graveyards.