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Show uu CARELESSNESS KILLS MANY AT CROSSINGS Ten persons were killed, forty -one injured and property of great value destroyed because of carelessness on the part of automobilo drivers, all of which was easily preventable. J. C Clark, assistant to H. V. Piatt, vice president and general manager of the Oregon Short Line and in charge of the "safety first" activities of the road, said yesterday in connection with his annual Teport. The report includes in-cludes a list of all crossings accidents on the road for the year ended December De-cember 31. Sixty -seven accidents occurred during dur-ing the year. Some few of these occurred oc-curred with horse-drawn vehicles, but by far the great majority were automobiles. auto-mobiles. The most disastrous was that at Payette on August 6, when five persons were killed and one injured as a train struck an automobile. "Despite the crossing safety devices, bells, wigwags, gates and watchmen, many automobile drivers insist on trying try-ing to boat the approaching train," Mr. Clark said yesterday. "Often they succeed. Sometimes they fall. Ono i S driver miscalculated so erroneously llll that his machine crashed into the iilll third car of tho passenger train. These , liill regrettable accidents could be pre- :i vented so easily by the exercise of a little care and cqmmon sense on the ; ! H part of the drivers." ( ll A movement is on foot to organize a ! state safety council, under the National j J Safely council, and two meetings havo ; been held in tho offices of Preston A. 1 hill Thatcher of the state industrial com- ;'liiH mission at the capltol. Employers, '''illl commercial clubs and other organlza- (iiH tlons would be invited to become members. 1 J Since the safety movement was in- j j augurated by the Oregon Short Line ;n , $ 1912, the accidents to employees of the 'i lH road have been lessened by two-thirds. 13 jH |