The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-12
THE RAILWAYS.
hePort or the Interstate Commerce Com- mission-1nteresting Statistics as to Rail- road Traffic


 Report of the Interstate Commerce Com-
 mission-Interesting Statistics as to Rail-
 road Traffic.
 WASHINGTON, Oct 6.-The fifth sta tistical report of the interstate com merce commission has just been submit ted, of which the following is an ab- stract:
 The total railway mileage of the country on June 30, 1892, was lTi,56j miles, being an in. crease during the year of S,lol miles This is the smallest increase in railway mileage re. ported for number of years The total nun. Der Of railway corporations was 1892, being O net increase of B during the year There have been fewer changes in the organization of rail. ways during the year than during any previous year, During the year Q roads were aban- doned, 10 merged into larger corporations, i7 were reorganized and Is were consoli dated. l The total number of locomotives was S3 l36
 The total number of cars reported by carriers as their property was I, ,2i5,Os2
 These figures, show decided Increase in density or rolling stock over the previous year. The number of passengers carried per pas senger locomotive was 63 399
 The number of freight cars per O)D 900 tons Of freight was ,627. This is Q decrease of 39 as compared with the previous year
 The total number of employees in the service or railways was ssl,ii5, being an increase of ~, iSJ over the previous year.
 The capitalization of the l62, 397 miles covered by tho report was Si02.6 74S l3A Of this amount Si,633, l0S,76S was represented by stocks and s5,OSS,0SS 050 by funded debts Mortgage bonds amounted to s. 3D2 51O 99I as compared with Si,OSl, ,61l, 6.5 for the previous year, The above figures show an increase in capitalization during the year 1892 of S397 273,- 1lQ.
 The total number of passengers carried bv the railways luriOy ha ssln . The average journey per passenger was ga &. mhes' ana the average number Of passengers per train for each mile run was forty-two The freight train mileage during the year was is5,. $12, S09 and the average number of tons per train Tor each mile run was lsl tons The gross earnings from the operating of railways during the year ending were sLi7l,4J7,3,3 The oper. ., ating expenses were s7se,9 ,ssa From this it appears that the net earnings from operation or railways were 800 409, 3iI
 The Income 10 the railways from investments was siil, ,9dO 7S2, making with the net income rom operation an aggregate Of sj32, 370, i2a The hxed charges during the year amounted to s4io, 'Oi 13a leaving net income available for dividends of sllS, 765, i9i Of this amount s97,. ioI7S were paid in dividends, s. 3lI 3g0 in other pay ments from net income, leaving a surplus over operating expenses during the year of sl4,136,0Sd'
 The number of railway employees killed dur. ing the year covered by the repStt was 2,S5i being less than the number killed during the previous year. The number Of employees in. Iured, however, was in excess of the number injured the previous year. being 2s, 26T
 The number of passengers killed was largely in excess of the number killed during the pre- vious year, being 376 in 1892, as against 293 fin 1871 while the number of passengers injured was 3,2S in 1892 as against 2,972 in 1891. An assignment of casualties to the opportunity fnR ,fa 5l,n II. have been killed for every 2:2 employees and one employe 10 have been injured for each twenty-uine men in the employ of the rail- roads A similar comparison shows one pas senger killed for each l.i9I, ,9l0 passengers carried, or for each 35,5i?,2s! passenger miles, and one passenger injured for each l73s33 pas. sengers carried, or for each i,l4O, 965 passenger miles. The largest number Of casualties to em. oloyes resulted from coupling and uncoupling cars SIS employes having been killed and 10. 3i9 injured, while rendering this service. Of the total number injured, 766 were trainmen.
 The accident classed as falling from cars' were in this year as previous years, responsi. ble for the llreest number Of deaths among employees, the number killed in this manner be- ing Gil Of this number 4!5 were trainmen Collisions and derailments were responsible for the death of 4Sl employees, and of this number 336 were trainmen This class of accidents Is responsible also sor the largest aumber of cas- ualties to passengers. Thus lT7 passengers were killed and l,5S9 were injured by collisions and derailmen;s. during the year. Collisions alone were responsible for the death of 2s8 em- ployes and l35 passengers.
 It is recommended that the express compa. nies corporations owning depot property, ele vators and the like, used by carriers for inter. state traffc and carriers by water, so far as they engage in interstate traffic, shall all be required to make reports to the inter state commerce commission