_Norwalk, May 6, 1853, 89._ _Penruddock, September 2, 1870, 143._ _Port Jervis, June 17, 1858, 118._ _Prospect, N. Y., December 24, 1872, 106._ _Rainhill, December 23, 1832, 10._ _Randolph, October 13, 1876, 24._ _Revere, August 26, 1871, 125._ _Richelieu River, June 29, 1864, 91._ _Shipton, December 24, 1874, 16._ _Shrewsbury River, August 9, 1877, 96._ _Tariffville, January 15, 1878, 107._ _Thorpe, September 10, 1874, 66._ _Tyrone, April 4, 1875, 69._ _Versailles, May 8, 1842, 58._ _Welwyn Tunnel, June 10, 1866, 149._ _Wemyss Bay Junction, December 14, 1878, 212._ _Wollaston, October 8, 1878, 20._ American railroad accidents, statistics of, 97, 260-6. locomotive engineers, intelligence of, 159. method of handling traffic, extravagance of, 183. Angola, accident at, 12, 201, 218. Ashtabula, accident at, 100, 267. Assaults in English railroad carriages, 33, 35, 38. Automatic electric block, 159, reliability of, 168, objections to, 174. train-brake, essentials of, 219. necessity for, 202, 237. Bell-cord, need of any, questioned, 29. accidents from want of, 31. assaults, etc., in absence of, 32-41. Beloeil, Canada, accident at, 92. Block system, American, 165. automatic electric, 159. objections to, 174. cost of English, 165. English, why adopted, 162. accident in spite of, 145. ignorance of, in America, 160. importance of, 145. Boston, passenger travel to and from, 183. possible future station in, 198. some vital statistics of, 241, 249. Boston & Albany railroad, accident on, 56. Boston station of, 183. Boston & Maine railroad, accident on, 96. Boston & Providence railroad, accident on, 53. Boston station of, 183. Brainerd, accident at, 108. Brakes, original and improved, 200. the battle of the, 216. true simplicity in, 228. Inefficiency of hand, 201, 204. emergency, 202. necessity of automatic, continuous, 202, 227. _See Train-brake._ Bridge accidents, 98, 266. Bridges, insufficient safeguards at, 98. protection of, 111. Bridge-guards, destroyed by brakemen, 244. Bristol, accident at, 150. Brougham, Lord, comments on death of Mr. Huskisson, 7, 270. Buffalo, Correy & Pittsburg railroad, accident on, 106. Burlington & Missouri River railroad, accident on, 70. Butler, B. F., on Revere accident, 142. Calcoft, Mr., extract from reports of, 196, 255. Caledonian railway, accident on, return of brake stoppages by, 211. Camden & Amboy railroad, accident on, 151. Car construction, American and English, 255. Carr's Rock, accident at, 120. Central Railroad of New Jersey, accident on, 96. Charlestown bridge, accident on, 95. Claypole accident, 83.