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Show H i OO I DRIVING OVER CROSSINGS. On Monday a petition was presented to the state senate In support of Ben-ate Ben-ate bill No. 32, requiring motor vehl ties to come to a full stop before talc-iug talc-iug railroad crossings St grades. Five hundred signatures of railroad rngl-ueerB rngl-ueerB were attached. In presenting the petition tho fol- ; lowing statement was made by the en- gineers. "We giant that every person who drives an automobile is not careless, but unquestionably far loo many of ihem are can lev W e are certain that 'he men operating railway trains in this slate are and have been doing tfnpry thing w ithin their power to avoid these disastrous accidents, and until one has been placed in the position of such a train operative he cannot appreciate ap-preciate the nerve racking and shock inn affect such an accident or the haz ard of one has upon such train opera lives. We are certain that accidents of this kind will never be curtailed or avoided by reliance upon signs of different dif-ferent kinds of warning devices, as we have all observed cases where these signs and warnings were in full operation and the motorist would be totally oblivious to them. We arc also convinced that crossing watch i men, flagmen, etc., are and will be ; powerless in many cases to avoid , these accidents, as we have seeu and heard of a great many cases where the warnings of these watchmen have been totally ignored snd the watch men have had to make desperato efforts ef-forts to avoid being run oer Ihr-m-selves. We a i.-.h to make one point , clear to ou ini presenting this petition, peti-tion, and that is it is prepared purely l and solely by a desire on the part of Ihe men operating the railway trains to curtail the Ion of liU and limb, th I destruction of property and the liar rowing experiences falling upon ih train operatives in each of these din asters." There Is no better source of infor i matlon than that of the engineers, who daily are in position to observe the movements of auto drivers and vsho sec the weaknesses of a percentage of those who drive over the rallroaJ crossings. The measure which is backed by tin-engineers tin-engineers should pass. |