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102 go under this shed, depositing their passengers at the doors of the three ferry houses. The city proposes to buy the block in front of the group and turn it into a handsome approach or esplanade. The estimated cost of the three ferry houses is about $850,000, and it is expected that the buildings will be completed in the early fall of the present year.

The Interstate Commerce Commission has issued Accident Bulletin No. 13, showing railroad accidents in the United States during the three months ending Sept. 30, 1904. The number of persons killed in train accidents was 411, and of injured 3,747. Accidents of other kinds bring the total number of casualties up to 14,239 (1,032 killed and 13,207 injured).

The total number of casualties reported as occurring in this quarter is less than for the corresponding quarter of the preceding year. The number of employees killed in coupling accidents (59) is 11 less; in train accidents (183) it is 37 less, and every item in that column is less, the total (756 employees killed) showing a falling off of 160. This is a gratifying showing, which it is to be hoped is not due alone to a diminution of the number of men at work. But the fatal accidents to passengers make an unprecedented aggregate, practically neutralizing the diminution in the number of employees killed. In Bulletin No. 10 (quarter ending with December, 1903) the number of passengers killed in train accidents (147) was more than three times the average of nine preceding quarters; and now we must record a total more than 50 per cent. greater than that in Bulletin No. 10.

Of the 228 passengers and 183 employees killed in train accidents 217 cases are accounted for by six accidents, and these 217 were nearly all passengers. The six cases were as follows: The first and fifth of these cases (a and e) illustrate the need of special inquiries into particular accidents if full and impartial statements of the facts are to be secured. The derailment (a), as will be seen by the statement of circumstances given below, was due to a bridge failure. From the conclusions of the coroner’s jury which investigated the case there would appear to be