. Annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois . smallpercentage. Heretofore, the information pertaining to grade railroad crossings,grade street railway crossings and grade highway crossings has neverbeen complete owing to the failure on the part of the railroads togive full information. A special effort was made this year to haveall roads furnish the necessary data. The aggregate for both steamand elevated roads shows a total of 1,030 grade railroad crossings,l97 grade street railway crossings and 13,151 grade street and high-way crossings as compared with
. Annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois . smallpercentage. Heretofore, the information pertaining to grade railroad crossings,grade street railway crossings and grade highway crossings has neverbeen complete owing to the failure on the part of the railroads togive full information. A special effort was made this year to haveall roads furnish the necessary data. The aggregate for both steamand elevated roads shows a total of 1,030 grade railroad crossings,l97 grade street railway crossings and 13,151 grade street and high-way crossings as compared with 873. 275 and 13,043 respectively forthe year 1898. The i formation called for on our blank forms con-cerning grade railroad and grade street railway crossings is not suffi-ciently explicit and 1 am satisfied that while several railroadcompanies report the number of railroads crossed at grade, othersreport the number of railroad crossings on single track basis andtherefore this data at present is of a mixed nature. This is a matterhowever that will be corrected in our new Accidents. The total number of passen.^jers, employees and others killed andinjured on both the steam and elevated roads as shown in the tablesfor the fiscal year ending June HO, 1S99, shows considerable of an in-crease over last year; in fact, this increase has been a steady one forsome years back. It is probably in proportion to the total increasein train mileage, but the figures are not at hand at present to verifythis. As compared with the fiscal year ending June 60, 1S9S, whichshowed 646 killed and 2,j!23 injured, there was a total of 700 killedand 13,175 injured; making an increase of per cent in total num-ber killed, and per cent in the total number injured. The total number of accidents due to collisions, derailments andgrade highway casualties as shown for the year ending June 30,1S99, was 120 killed and 322 injured. Without any intention of min-imizing accidents to employees, it is th
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