Tabular Abstract of Accidents, &c.-Concluded. EMPLOYES. AT CROSSINGS. Falling on track. Collision. Conductors. Engineers. Brakemen. Other employes. Coupling cars. Falling from train. Struck by bridge. Standing too near track. Explosion of locomotive. # 2 co NOTE-By comparison with the Annual Reports, it will be seen that the following roads have not reported to this board all the accidents on their roads at the time of occurrence; viz. :-the Albany, Maine, Providence, Cheshire, Connecticut River, Nashua & Lowell, New Haven & Northampton, and Providence & Worcester; and except in the case of the last-named road, the difference is not accounted for by accidents happening out of the State. * One fireman injured while examining a box of engine. By cars running off track. Employé's child riding on an engine when it ran off end of a track. RAILROADS. Tabular Abstract of Accidents on Horse Railroads reported to the Railroad Commissioners, from December 1, 1869, to Metropolitan, 7 6 7 * Employé. † Including one uncertain cause of death. NOTE. A Comparison with the Annual Reports shows that the Metropolitan, the Lynn and Boston, the Salem, the Lowell, and the South Boston Railways, have not reported to this board all the accidents at the time they occurred; the last two roads making no reports whatever. Fatal. Not Fatal. Fatal. OTHERS. Not Fatal. [L.] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-One. AN ACT TO REGULATE THE TRANSPORTATION OF NITRO-GLYCERINE AND OTHER EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: SECTION 1. Whoever knowingly delivers or causes to be delivered to any person or corporation, being a common carrier of passengers, for transportation in or upon any steamboat or other vessel, railroad car, carriage or other vehicle used for the transportation of passengers within this Commonwealth, or places or causes to be placed in or upon any steamboat or other vessel, railroad car, carriage or other vehicle so used for the transportation of passengers, any of the substances or articles known as nitro-glycerine or glynoin oil, nitroleum or blasting oil, or nitrated oil, or powder mixed with any such oil, or fibre saturated therewith, or dualin, shall be liable to a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars; and any person or corporation, being a common carrier of passengers, who shall knowingly receive for transportation, or shall transport any of said articles in or upon any steamboat or other vessel, railroad car, carriage or other vehicle used for the transportation of passengers, or in any railroad car attached to any train used for the transportation of passengers, within this Commonwealth, shall be liable to a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars. SECTION 2. In case the death of any person shall be caused by he explosion of any of said articles while the same is being placed in or upon any such steamboat or other vessel, railroad car, carriage or other vehicle used for the transportation of passengers, or while the same is being transported thereon or is being removed therefrom, every person who knowingly placed or aided in or permitted the placing of said article in or upon such vessel or vehicle for transportation shall be deemed guilty of manslaughter, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisonment in the jail not exceeding one year. SECTION 3. None of the articles named in the first section of this act shall be transported in any quantity in or upon any vessel or vehicle whatever within this Commonwealth unless the same shall be securely enclosed or packed in a metallic vessel surrounded by plaster of paris or other material that will be non-explosive when saturated with such article, and the outside of the package containing the same shall be marked, printed or labelled in a conspicuous manner "NITRO-GLYCERINE, DANGEROUS;" and whoever shall violate the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of not less than five hundred, nor more than five thousand dollars. [Laws of U. S., 3d July, 1866; 14 U. S. Statutes at Large, 81.] |