Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1901 — Railroad Figures for Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Figures for Indiana.

The railroads of Indiana last year carried 41,788,977 passengers. They carried 115,007,837 tons of freight. In order to carry that number of passengers there were 769 prssenger trains dashing over Indiana every twenty-four hours, the average freight train in Indiana last year was composed of thirty cars and carried on an average of 250 tons and in order to transport the amount of freight carried there are used 44,831 freight trains.

On the railroads of Indiana during the year one passenger and thirty-three employes were killed from causes beyond their control and seven trespassers were killed. There were killed three passengers and sixty six employes and 173 others through their own carelessness. There were injured 140 prssengers, 1,197 employes and 41 other persons by causes beyond their control, and through their own carelessness 70 passengers, 1,948 employes and 282 others injured.