The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-16
A YEAR OF STATISTICS.
Interstate Commerce COmmission's
Railway Figures.

Railway Figures,
The Interstate Commerce COMMISSIONS
report for 1898 has just been issued. At
the end of the fiscal year the total single
track railway mileage in the United
States was S6.S95.S2 miles, an increase in
this mileage during the year of l,9G7S5
miles.
There were 1924 locomotives in service
This number is larger by 24S than the
previous year. OF the total number of To-
comotives reported 1856 are passenger 10
comotives, 20,627 freight locomotives, ana
5'23t switching locomotives, a small
number being unclassided The total
number of cars Of all classes reported In
service was l,32GI7l, an increase of 28.694.
OF the total number, SO J95 were assigned
to the passenger service and l.a4S.s25 to
the freight service, 1888 being assigned
to the service OF the railways them
selves
The number of persons employed BIZ the
railways Of the United States was 81 55S
which is equivalent 10 IA employees per 100
niles Of line. As compared with the num-
Der of employees for the previous year,
there was an increase of 81 0S2. The number
of employees at the end of 1898 was 956 in
excess of the number at the end of 1898,
and 69,524 in excess of the number on June
20, 1895. The employees of railways are di-
vided into eighteen classes. There were
in the employ of the railways at the end
Of the year 81, 939 enginemen, IS, 925 firemen,
26 SIS conductors, and 6o68 other train
men. There We're 47124 switcnmen, flag
men, and watchmen The aggregate num-
Der OF passengers carried during the year,
as returned in the annual report of hall
ways, was 5Ol, 0G66ol, an increase. as COM
pared with the previous year of Il 62l 4S3.
The number Of passengers carried one mile
during the year was 70 ,379 ,004, an in
crease of !, 122. 990357, as compared to the
year previous.
The total number of casualties to per-
sons on account of railway accidents dur
ing the year was 47,741. The aggregate
number of persons killed as a result of
railway accidents during the year was g.
S69 and the number injured was 40. $50
OF railway employees. 95S We're killed and
3l,76l were injured during the year cover
ed by this report With respect to the
three general classes of employees, these
casualties were divided as follows: Train
men, LA killed, 1865 injured; switchmen
aagmen and watchmen, 2l2 killed, 267 in
jured; other employees, SIS killed, 1888 in
jured. The casualties to employees result
ing from coupling and uncoupIing cars
WERE persons killed, 279; injured, 6,9SS,
ing year were killed, 2l4; injured, 62S3.
The casualties from coupling and I'M
coupling cars are assigned as follows:
Trainmen, killed, 49, injured, $3.50;
switchmen, fagmen and watchmen, killed,
80 injured. 1,4S6; other employees, killed, T.,
| injured, 2l2. The casualties resulting from
falling from trains and engines are as
signed as follows Tranmen, killed, 355;
injured 1913; sWitchmen, 1agmen and
watchmen, killed So injured, 359; other
employees killed, 81, injured, 81. The cas-
ualties to the same three groups of en-
ployes caused by collisions and derail-
ments were as follows: Trainmen. killed,
262 injured, 1867; switchmen, fiagmen and
watchmen killed, 49, injured, So; other en-
ployes, killed, 80, injured, 367
The number Of passengers killed during
the year was 221 and the number injured
was 29i5. Corresponding figures for the
previous year We're 222 killed and 2795 in
jured. In consequence of collisions and
derailments 2 passengers were killed and
! .134 passengers were injured during the
year embraced by this report. The total
number of persons. other than employees
and passengers. killed was 1850; injured.
SIG. These figures include casualties to
| persons classed as trespassers, of whom
4053 were killed and 4,749 injured. The
summaries containing the ratio of casual
ties show that l out of every 447 employees
was killed and l out of every % employees
We're injured, With reference to train
notwithstanding in the term enginemen,
| firemen, conductors and other trainmen-
1t is shown that l was killed for every
$50 employed and was injured for every
II employed. one passengers was killed
for every go carried and 1 injured for
every 170,1H carried. Ratios based upon
the number Of miles Travelled, however.
show that 6O,542, go passenger miles were
accomplished for each puassenger killed
and 4,543, 30 passenger miles accomplished
for each passenger injured.