The fireman / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a manical-looking railroad fireman shoveling human bodies into the boiler on a railroad locomotive.

Caption: In the first nineteen days of January, of this year, 136 persons were killed on American railroads and as many more injured. The railroads, according to the Interstate Commerce Commission, are killing men, women and children at the rate of 26 a day and injuring 237 a day.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 61, no. 1565 (1907 February 27), centerfold.
Copyright 1907 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.