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Show PEOPLE ARE, COURTING .DANGER WHEN THEY CROSS THE TRACKS IN THE YARDS. Instead of Going Over the Vfaduct, Many Persons Insist on Risking Risk-ing Their Lives. Local officials, switching crews, yardmen, watchmen and railroad employes em-ployes in general are greatly annoyed ut this, time by men, women and children chil-dren chasing through the Southern ''Acific yards and practically Ignoring th2 viaduct in crossing the tracks. Since the completion of the big bridge across the yarde on Twenty-fcurth Twenty-fcurth street, all flagmen have been withdrawn and plank crossings removed. remov-ed. As a result of this change, there is positive danger now in pedestrians crossing the yards either in the day time or at night Switching crews, absorbed in their dangerous duties and hard at work, give little, heed to the former crossing and as a natural result regard all persons chasing through the yards as trespassers. Saturday Sat-urday afternoon a woman, infant anil bsby carriage narrowly escaped being crushed to death by moving cars under un-der the viaduct, and were only rescued res-cued from a position of peril by the piompt action of Special Officer Shu-maker Shu-maker of the Southern Pacific company. com-pany. i Children crossing the tracks are In imminent danger, as the little folks play along in happy, childish fashion, unmindful of danger from moving trains, switch engines and rolling ecpiipment. Parents and others are warned to keep out of the yards and to advise the little folks to use the viaduct at all times in crossing over railroad property. |