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Show I DEATH AT A CROSSING Within twelve months there hvr been a dozen accidents in which railroad rail-road trains have struck motor cars, killing as high as a score of men women and children. The northern pari of Utah was the scene of one of ihe fatalities. On Friday a motor bus, operating irom Painesvllle to Fairport, in Ohio, was hit by a New York Central ex press train and the twenty-five passengers pas-sengers were either killed or injured. America's railroad crossings arc de manding as many lives in a year as are lost in a battle The tracks from I Ogden to Salt Lake have a history of bloodshed and almost entire families have been wiped out by the striking power of trains At death's crossing, near Riverdale, ono of the first fatal atuo accidents in the state occurred when two men were ground lo pieces by a speeding train. There is only one way to avoid the disasters and that is to bridge the railroad crossings or have a watchman on guard. It is a source of comfort to know that the Riverdale crossing of the Union Pacific tracks is to be eliminated. elim-inated. Work on the viaduct is to start without further delay and soon the state of Utah, cooperating with Weber county and the Union Pacific, will remove the last death sign on the most traveled road in the intermoun-tam intermoun-tam region. |