Show R RAILROAD A ai r 0 A D FIG FIGURES urea interstate C COMMERCE COMMIS SION GIVES OUT REPORT statistics show persons P r billed or injured during year ending june 30 M leage ga n placed at washington the interstate corn com merce commission commissions s report for the year ending june 30 1908 shows persons killed or injured by rail roads a net income of available tor for dividends or surplus passengers carried 1796 tons of freight hauled track mileage of employed emp loyes number ing 1 1672 equipment including 55 locomotives 43 passenger cars and 1 freight cars in these figures neither cars used in the corn com bantes service nor commercial private cars are included the mileage of tracks of all kinds increased 10 during the year rail roads owning 2 miles of line were reorganized merged or consolidated there were 29 roads in receivership nearly all locomotives and cars in the passenger service had train brakes all but 58 passenger locomotives car ried automatic couples cou pleis only a little more than one per cent of the pas coaches lacked automatic couplers and of 1 freight cars had train brakes while 1972 of them had automatic couplers employed Emp loyes averaged per miles of line a substantial increase the total wages and salaries paid was 1072 1 the passenger traffic exceeded the previous year by almost 76 per sons the freight traffic increased al most tons or tons per mile the passenger revenue per mile averaged 2 cents and both passenger and freight train earnings per train mile showed an increase the gross earnings from the opera tion of miles of line for which substantially complete returns were rendered were 2 being more than greater than the previous year operating expenses es were 1748 1 or considerably more than increase the income from operation or the net earnings of the railways aggregated exceeding the previous year by the total of i 1127 income of railways em braces net earnings and income from lease investments and miscellaneous sources dividends declared aggregated leaving as surplus from the operations ot of the year as against the previous year s surplus of about 29 less in the fiscal year of 1907 08 one pas was killed for every 1 carried and one injured tor for every 67 carried a little worse showing than the previous year one ger was killed for every 45 odd passenger miles traveled and one in aured tor for every 2 miles |