Railway Disasters and Reckless Living
Twenty-five persons were killed and a number more injured in a wreck caused by a head-on collision on September 15, near Canaan, Vt. The passenger-train contained excursionists that had been spending a day in Canada, and as their train rounded a curve they collided with a freight. The great and constantly growing number of serious railway and steamship disasters shows that the mad, rushing business whirl of this age is breaking men down and driving them into careless habits that are producing dire results. If men did not want to drive ahead so fast, accidents would not be so frequent. The principles held by so many in this time are leading them to be more and more reckless, and to hold the property and lives of others in less and less esteem.