of thousands of employés to the condition of the atmosphere, the heat of an axle, or the strength of a nail. The vast machine is in constant motion, and the derangement of a single one of a myriad of conditions may at any moment occasion one of those inequalities of movement which are known as accidents. Yet at the end of the year, of the hundreds of millions of passengers fewer have lost their lives through these accidents than have been murdered in cold blood. Not without reason, therefore, has it been asserted that, viewing at once the speed, the certainty, and the safety with which the intricate movement of modern life is carried on, there is no more creditable monument to human care, human skill, and human foresight than the statistics of railroad accidents. INDEX. Abergele, accident at, 72. Accidents, railroad, about stations, 166. at highway crossings, 165. level railroad crossings, 94,165, 245, 258. aggravated by English car construction and stoves, 14, 41, 106, 255. comments on early, 9. damages paid for certain, 267. due to bridges, 99, 206, 266. broken tracks, 166. car couplings, 117. collisions, 265. derailments, 13, 16, 23, 54, 79, 84. in Great Britain, 266. America, 266. draw-bridges, 82, 266. fire in train, 31. oil-tanks, 72. oscillation, 50. telegraph, 66. telescoping, 43. want of bell-cords, 32. brake power, 12, 119. increased safety resulting from, 2, 29, 155, 205. precautions against early, 10. statistics of, in America, 263. Belgium, 260. France, 260. Great Britain, 236, 252, 257, 263. Massachusetts, 232-60. general, 228-70. _List of Accidents specially described or referred to_:-- _Abergele, August 20, 1868, 72._ _Angola, December 18, 1867, 12._ _Ashtabula, December 29, 1876, 100._ _Brainerd, July 27, 1875, 108._ _Brimfield, October, 1874, 56._ _Bristol, March 7, 1865, 150._ _Carr's Rock, April 14, 1867, 120._ _Camphill, July 17, 1856, 61._ _Charlestown Bridge, November 21, 1862, 95._ _Claypole, June 21, 1870, 85._ _Communipaw Ferry, November 11, 1876, 207._ _Croydon Tunnel, August 25, 1861, 146._ _Des Jardines Canal, March 12, 1857, 112._ _Foxboro, July 15, 1872, 53._ _Franklin Street, New York city, June, 1879, 207._ _Gasconade River, November 1, 1855, 108._ _On Great Western Railway of Canada, October, 1856, 55._ _On Great Western Railway of England, December 24, 1841, 43._ _Heeley, November 22, 1876, 209._ _Helmshire, September 4, 1860, 121._ _On Housatonic Railroad, August 16, 1865, 151._ _Huskisson, William, death of, September 15, 1830, 5._ _Lackawaxen, July 15, 1864, 63._ _Morpeth, March 25, 1877, 209._ _New Hamburg, February 6, 1871, 78._