| CHAPTER. | | PAGE. | | I | The death of Mr. Huskisson | 3 | | II | The Angola and Shipton accidents | 12 | | III | The Wollaston accident | 20 | | IV | Accidents and conservatism | 27 | | V | Telescoping and the Miller Platform | 43 | | VI | The Versailles accident | 58 | | VII | Telegraphic collisions | 66 | | VIII | Oil-tank accidents | 72 | | IX | Draw-bridge disasters | 82 | | X | The Norwalk accident | 89 | | XI | Bridge accidents | 98 | | XII | The protection of bridges | 111 | | XIII | Car-couplings in derailments | 117 | | XIV | The Revere catastrophe | 125 | | XV | Rear-end collisions | 144 | | XVI | Novel appliances | 153 | | XVII | The automatic electric block system | 159 | | XVIII | Interlocking | 182 | | XIX | The Westinghouse brake | 199 | | XX | The battle of the brakes | 216 | | XXI | The railroad journey resulting in death | 230 | | XXII | The railroad death-rate | 241 | | XXIII | American as compared with foreign railroad accidents | 250 |
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