Of the above accidents those numbered as follows were caused by broken rails: Nos. 37, 38, 49, 53, 54, 55, 56.... Of the above accidents those numbered as follows were Total No. of accidents, 3. Total No. of accidents, 2. Of the above accidents those numbered as follows were caused by explosion: No. 67.... Total No. of accidents, 1. Amount paid as damages on account of stock killed by trains REMARKS. $6,956 15 The stateraent of accidents, as shown on page 16 of this report (blank form), is full and complete, comprising all accidents on the company's lines in the State of Wisconsin during the year ending June 30, 1875, that have been reported. A very large proportion of the injuries to persons were of the most trivial nature. STATE OF WISCONSIN, County of Milwaukee, ss. We, S. S. Merrill, General Manager, and Royal D. Jennings, Secretary and Treasurer of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, being duly sworn, depose and say that we have caused the foregoing statement to be prepared by the proper officers and agents of this company, and having carefully examined the same, declare them to be a true, full, and correct statement of the condition and affairs of said company on the first day of July, A. D. 1875, to the best of their knowledge and belief. S. S. MERRILL, General Manayer. R. D. JENNINGS, Subscribed and sworn to before me, a Notary Public, this twenty-third day of September, A. D. 1875. G. E. WEISS, Not. Pub., Milwaukee Co., Wis. |