ACCIDENTS. Below tabular statement give the cause and circumstances of each accident, with the finding of jury of inquest; also a detailed account of all train accidents: Passengers. Employees. Others. Total. Total-Killed..... 1 Injured.... The man killed was a negro, and was attempting to pass from one car to another and fell between cars and so badly injured that he died in two hours after he was injured. He was drunk. We called in a physician, and he was with him when he died. We proposed to have an inquest held, but physician said as there was no doubt about the way he was killed an inquest was not held. EXTRACT FROM "AN ACT TO CREATE A RAILROAD COMMISSIONER FOR THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AND TO DEFINE HIS DUTIES." SECTION 10. "The said Commissioner shall require the annual returns to be made by railroad companies in manner and form, and at the time, now provided for by law, and shall be authorized to require returns to be made of such other matters as he may deem expedient; when the return received from any corporation is defective or probably erroneous, the Commissioner shall notify the corporation to amend the same within fifteen days." * * * President..... Superintendent .B. D. Townsend........Society Hill, S. C. ..........J. F. Divine..............Wilmington, N.C. .154 Number of Stockholders residing in South Carolina...147 ASSETS AND LIABILITIES. ASSETS. Cost of construction at date of last report.... Cost of equipment at date of last report........ Total cost of road and equipment.................. Cost of road per mile...................... Cost of equipment per mile...................... Cost of road and equipment per mile..... Other investments..... Cash........ Other assets... Total assets...... 7 |