The Globe-republican., 1893-10-13
THE RAILWAYS.
Report of the Interstate Commerce Conn
notwithstanding Statistics rs to Rail-
road Traffic.

I Report Of the Interstate Commerce Com
notwithstanding Statistics to Rail
! road Traffic.
WASHINGTON. Oct THE fifth sta
tistical report of the interstate com
merce commission has just been submit
ted, of which the following is an alb
1 stract:
/ The total railway mileage of the country or
! June 30. 1892, was III ,555 miles, being an in
crease during the year of 3,i6) miles. This is
| the smallest increase in railway mileage re-
ported for 4 number of years The total mum
Der of railway corporations was 49, being a
net increase of 81 during the year. There have
been fewer changes in the organiZat lon OF rail-
| ways during the year than during any previous
year. During the year roads were aban-
| doned. 10 merged into larger corporations, IL
| were reorganized and Is were consoli dated
The total number Of locomotives was 1 lSo
The total number Of cars reported by carriers
| as their property was l,2l5, 6s2
These figures show a decided increase In
density Of rolling stock over the previous year
The number Of passengers carried per pas
senger locomotive was 63, S99
The number of freight cars per 1000. 900 tons
of freight was / s27. This is decrease of 80 as
compared with the previous year
The total number Of employees in the service
of railways was s2l4l5 being an increase of
81. l3o over the previous year.
The capitalization of the l62, 397 miles covered
by the report was So 226 T4s 1874 OF this
amount si,633, 10s7o3 was represented by
stocks and s5,053,O $50 by funded debts
Mortgage bonds amounted to 81 800, $40, 99B, as
compared with si,0sl ,62l Cts for the previous
year. The above figures show an increase in
capitalization during the year 1892 Of 1897 273,
49,
The total number Of passengers carried By
the railways during the year was $50 9js, 2ll.
ONba Or
mSeS, ana the average number of passengers
per train for each mile run was forty-two. The
freight train mileage during the year was 1885,
4)2, 1863. and the average number of tons per
train for each mile run was ISL tons. The gross
earnings from the operating of railways during
the year ending were sl.l ,407,33 The oper-
ating expenses were $50, 9y7 1896 From this it
appears that the net earnings from operation
of railways were $780, 400, S4I
The income to the railways from investments
was Sal, $780, 1872, making with the me- income
from operation an aggregate of So32, $40, l29
The fixed charges during the year amounted to
4i6, i0i 73a. leaving net income available for
dividends of Sis, 765 l9l. OF this amount s97,-
l64,745 were paid in dividends 81, 3l4 800 in
other paT ments from net income, leaving a
surplus over operating expenses during the
year Of Sl4, 136, O16
The number OF railway employees killed dur
ing the year covered by the report was 2,554
being less than the number killed during the
previous year. The number Of employees in
jured, however, was in excess OF the number
injured the previous year. being q, 267
The number Of passengers killed was largely
in excess OF the number killed during the pre-
vious year, being 376 in 1892, as against s93 in
1891: while the number Of passengers injured
was 3,227 in 1892 as against 2,912 in 1891. An
assignment Of casualties to the opportunity
offered for accidents showed one employee to
have been killed for every DO employees. and
one employe 10 have been injured for each
twenty-nine men in the employ of the rail-
roads similar comparison shows one pas
senger killed for each l,49l, $40 passengers
carried. or for each 81, ii2.2S, passenger miles.
and one passenger injured for each 49, SS3 pas
sengers carried, or for each 4140, 966 passenger
miles. The largest number of casualties to en-
ployes resulted from coupling and uncoupling
cars. 31S empo, es having been killed and 1919
injured, while rendering this service. OF the
total number injured 1G6 were trainmen.
The accident classed as failing from cars
were in this year as previous years. response.
bic for the larzeSt number of deaths among
employees, the number killed in this manner be
ing Gil OF this number AS were trainmen
Collisions and derailments were responsible for
the death Of 4Si employees and of this number
$50 were trainmen. This class of accidents is
also Cor the largest number Of cas-
ualties to passengers. Thus Ia passengers
were killed and 1859 were injured by collisions
and derailments. during the year Collisions
alone we're responsible for the death of as5 en-
ployeS and 1856 passengers.