The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-14
A YEARS FIGURES
Interstate Commerce Commission
Files Its Ninth Statistical
Report.
Eighteen Roads Taken Out of the
Hands of Receivers--Capital
and Earnings.
Compensation of Employees De-
creased---Killed and Injured
Increased.


tistical report of the interstate com.
kmerce commission for the year ended
\s,ne 30, 1895, gives interesting infor.
Vtion concerning the mileage, equip.
llent, number of employees, capitaliza-
ton and valuation, accidents and earn.
ings and expenses of railways in the
United States for the year named. One
hundred and fifty.one roads, represent.
ing 3O,475 miles Of operated mileage,
were in the hands Of receivers on June
Both, 1896, decrease Of Is from the
previous year. The capital stock rep,
resented by the railways controlled by
receivers was S742,597 1893 and the
funded debt was $999, 1873, ,766. The
total railway mileage on June 80, 1896,
was 1S2,776, an increase of 2,119, for
the year, Georgia showing the largest
increase, namely, 233 miles.
The number of locomotives i'll service
was $3.50, and of cars Of all classes,
1907 ,649, an increase of PSI locomotives
and 1858 cars. Of the total cars and
locomotives, 44S,S54 were fitted with
train brakes, and $3.50 with auto
matte couplers. The number of freight
locomotives fitted with automatic
couplers was 1878, out of a total of co..
351, and the cars in freight service
fitted with train brakes was 379,O5S, out
If total Of 1,22l,SS7.
Compensation Of Employees.
An interesting feature of the report
is summary showing the amount OF
compensation paid TO the railway en-
ployes Of the United States who aggre.
gate $4,000. The aggregate compensa.
ton amounted to over 80 per cent of
the total operating expenses of all rail-
ways, a slight decrease from the pre-.
ceding year. Much data on the capital
ization and valuation of railway prop.
erty is contained in the report. The
amount of railway capital, it is shown,
was SIC, ,566, ,S65, I'll, which, assigned on
q mileage basis, shows capital of $780,
61O per mile Of line, and if current lia-
bilities he included as part of the capi-
tai, $63.O68 per mile Of line. The
amount of capital stock was $5,226, ,527,.
800, of which 1869, 956, ,6Y2 was preferred.
A fraction of over 70 per cent of the
capital stock paid no dividends. The
total dividends amounted to $S7 ,603, ,371.
Passengers carried during the year
numbered 511 1,772,737, an increase OF
over 1900, 900 compared with the pre-
vious year, which, however, showed q
decrease OF 81, 266, 1877 as compared with
1894. Freight tonnage amounted to
765, ,SYl 1886, the largest ever reported for
railways in this country and an increase
of nearly 7O.0OO,OOO. Gross earnings
amounted to 81, 15O, l69 ,376, an increase
of nearly $75, 900 900, resulting in q net
income of over $33 900, 900 larger than
the previous year.
Loss of Life Was Large.
Nearly 1900 employees were killed
and almost $4,000 injured during the
year, an increase of 80 in those killed
and over 1000 in the number injured
One hundred and eighty-one passengers
were killed and nearly 5000 injured
The number of persons (other than EN-
ployes and passengers) killed was 4,406
and those injured 5,845. These figures
Include casualties to persons reported
las trespassers. For every 444 men EN-
ployed on railways one was killed ant
for every rs men employed one was in
iured. One trainman was killed TO
each l52 trainmen employed and ON
trainman was injured for each 10 mel
employed. The number Of passenger