The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-23
On Pennsylvania in 1903 and
1909, Only One Passen-
ger Killed in Wreck.
$40 PEOPLE WERE HURT
NEARLY soo,ooo,ooo PASSENGERS
WERE CARRIED THOSE TWO
YEARS ON $4,000 MILES OF THE
SYSTEM.

Pittsburg, May 23.-Figures just COM
piled by the Pennsylvania railroad sys-
tenn show that in 1903 and 1909 it's
various lines carried a total of 299,-
162.G5S passengers on its ~ 600 miles
OF track and only one. passenger was
Killed as result of a train wreck. In
other words, the chance of a passenger
losing his life in an accident on the
pennsylvania railroad system was one
out Of about 3OOO0O.OOO.
In 1909 the number of passengers
carried by the Pennsylvania railroad
increase Of 11.55 per cent over the al ).
635,54 carried in 1908. The number
of passengers carried one mile on the
Pennsylvania system in 1908 and 1909
was 7,17O,56S,517, so that for each
mile travelled over the system the
chance of being killed was one in more
than seven billion.
One Killed Last Year.
One passenger was killed as a re-
suit of train wreck in 1909, while
none was killed in 1908. In the two
years $50 passengers were injured in
train wrecks. There were two less pas
senger collisions and Is less freight
collisions in 1909 than 1908, while the
number Of freight derailments was
smaller by 60.
This record of the Pennsylvania is
all the more remarkable as its bust
ness is heavier than that of any other
Nf h. :al~
sarily means that it operates more
trains than any other railroad and at
the same time enjoys an accident rec
ord which has not been equaled by
any of the lines operating the same
mileage.
The passenger trains on the Pennsyl-
vania In the past two years travelled
11S,4O7,3 1S miles. In other words, If
one train had gone this entire distance
1t would have made about 5000 trips
around the world, and with but one
death resulting from train accident.
The freight trains operated by the
Pennsylvania system in the two years
travelled approximately 125,OO0,OOO
miles,
The Pennsylvania lines west OF Pitts
burg have carried 52,51S,S0S passeng-
ers in 1908 and 1909: these passen-
gers have travelled a total of 3O,3O7.-
35G miles and not single one was
Killed in a train accident. The Grand
Rapids & Indiana railway has a record
equally as good, as in the two years it
carried 5,1O4.5S5 passengers distance
of o,966,S7O miles and none was killed
in train accident.
The Cumberland valley railroad. an
other subsidiary Of the Pennsylvania.
had train mileage of 1,344.94O miles
in 1908 and 1909, carrying 1895 ,26t
passengers. The number Of passengers
carried one mile was 81. 1926 This
road enjoys distinction of having no
passenger either killed or injured on
account of train accidents. neither was
an employee killed, and only one was
injured in a wreck in these two years.
Traffic Very Heavy.
Passenger traffic on the Long Island
railroad is exceedingly heavy owing to
it's large commuter traffic out of New
York City. This road carried 5O.1O9.-
597 passengers in 1908 and 1909 and no
passenger VI eApioyC "tAS hAiiSu IA ~
train wreck.
The vandalia railroad operated its
passenger trains 5,O17,415 miles in
1908 and 1909. The number of pass
engers carried one mile was 213,1aO.'
97o. and not one was killed in train
wreck.
The Maryland, Delaware 4 Virginia
railway. and the Baltimore. Chesa-
peake & Atlantic railway, two of the
Pennsylvania subsidiaries operating
steamboats, on the Chesapeake Bay and
rail lines on the Delaware-Ma
Peninsula. in the two years hauled
Sl9.9S7 passengers and not one was
killed as result Of a train accident.
No employees have been killed in this
way aud no passengers have been in
jured. Only one employee was injured
as a result of train accident.
Eilial Love.