Massachusetts, statistics of accidents in, 156, 232-60. train-brakes in use in, 157, 214. Metropolitan Elevated railroad, accident on, 207. interlocking apparatus used by, 196. Midland railway, accident on, 209. protests against interlocking, 192. Miller's Platform and Buffer, chapter on, 49-57. accidents avoided by, 19, 53, 56, 70. in Massachusetts, 157. Mohawk Valley railroad, pioneer train on, 48. Morpeth, accident at, 209. Murders, number of, compared with the killed by railroad accidents, 242. New York City, passenger travel of, 184. New York, Providence & Boston railroad, accident on, 106. New York & New Haven railroad, accident on, 89. Newark, brake trials at, in 1874, 217. North Eastern railway, accident in, 209. brake trials on, 218. returns of brake-stoppages by, 211. Northern Pacific railroad, accident on, 108. Norwalk accident, 89. Oil-tank accidents, 72, 150. Old Colony railroad accidents on, 20, 24, 174. Oscillation, accidents occasioned by, 50. Pacific railroad of Missouri, accident on, 108. Pennsylvania railroad, ballasting of, 248. English block in use on, 164. Penruddock, accident at, 143. Phillips, Wendell, on Revere accident, 141. Port Jervis accident, 118, 202, 218. _Quarterly Review_ of 1835, article in, 199, 269. _Railroad Gazette_, records of accidents kept by, 261. Rear-end collisions in America, 144, 151. Europe, 143. necessity of protection against, 159. Revere accident, 125, 172. improvements caused by, 153. lessons taught by, 159. meeting in consequence of, 161, 205. Richelieu River, accident at, 92. Shipton accident, 16, 216. Shrewsbury River draw, accident at, 96. Smith's vacuum brake, 208, 220, 226. popularity of in Great Britain, 220, 226. compared with Westinghouse, 218, 227. Statistics of railroad accidents, 230-70. Stopping trains, an insufficient safeguard at draw-bridges and level crossings, 94, 97, 195. Stage-coach travelling, accidents in, 231. Stoves in case of accidents, 15, 41, 106. Suicides on railroads, 246. Tariffville accident, 107. Telegraph, accidents occasioned by use of, 66. use of, should be made compulsory, 64. Telegraphic signals, chapter on, 159. Telescoping, accidents from, 43. Thorpe, collision at, 67, 172. Train-brake, chapters on, 199, 216. Board of Trade specifications relating to, 219. doubts concerning, 28. failures of, to work, in Great Britain, 211. introduced on English roads, 29, 216. kinds of, used in Massachusetts, 157, 214. Sir Henry Tyler on, 222, 228. want of, occasioned Shipton accident, 19, 216. Trespassers on railroads, accidents to, 245. means of preventing, 245, 258. Tunnels, collisions in, 146, 149.