Collisions, head, 61-2. in America, 265. Great Britain, 265. occasioned by use of telegraph, 66. rear-end, 144-52. Communipaw Ferry, accident at, 207. Cannon Street Station in London, traffic at, 163, 183, 194. Connecticut law respecting swing draw-bridges, 82, 94, 195. Connecticut Western railroad, accident on, 107. Conservatism, British railroad, 29. American railroad, 41, 52, 65, 161, 205. Coupling, accidents due to, 117. the original, 49. Crossings, level, of railways, accidents at, 165. need of interlocking apparatus at, 195. stopping trains at, 95, 195. Croydon Tunnel collision, 146. Deodand, 43. Derailments, accidents from, 13, 16, 23, 54, 79, 84. statistics of, 265. Des Jardines Canal accident, 112. Draw-bridge accidents, 82, 97, 114. stopping as a safeguard against, 95. need of interlocking apparatus at, 195. Eames vacuum brake, 208. Eastern railroad, accident on, 125. Economy, cost of a small, 174. at risk of accident, 268. Employés railroad, casualties to, 243. Engineering, on American inventions, 221. English railways, train movement on, 162, 194. Erie railroad, accidents on, 63, 118, 120. France, statistics of accidents in, 259. panic produced in, by Versailles accident, 60. Franklin Street, New York city, accident at, 207. Galt, William, report by, on accidents, 268. Gasconade river accident, 108. Germany, railroad accidents in, 261. Grand Trunk railway, accident on, 91. Great Eastern railway, accident on, 66. Great Northern railway, accidents on, 84, 149. Great Western railway, accidents on, 16, 43, 112. of Canada, accidents on, 31, 112. Hall's system of electric signals, 168. Harrison, T. E., extract from letter of, 210. Heeley, accident at, 209. Helm shire accident, 121. Highway crossings at level, accidents at, 165, 170, 244, 258. interlocking at, 195. Housatonic railroad, accident on, 151. Hudson River railroad, accident on, 78. Huskisson, William, death of, 3, 200. Inclines, accidents upon, 74, 110, 121. Interlocking, chapter relating to, 182. at draw-bridges, 97, 195. level crossings, 195. practical simplicity of, 189. use made of in England, 192. Investigation of accidents, no systematic, in America, 86. English, 85. Lake Shore railroad, accident on, 11. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad, accident on, 100. Lancashire & Yorkshire railroad, accident on, 121. Legislation against accidents, futility of 94, 109. as regards use of telegraphs, 64. interlocking at draws, 97. level crossings, 97. London passenger traffic, 162, 183. London & Brighton railway, accident on, 145. London & North Western railway, assaults on, 32, 38. accidents on, 72, 143. train brake used by, 222. Manchester & Liverpool railway, accidents on, 10, 11, 45. opening of, 3.