Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 316, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1920 — SAFE CROSSINGS IN INDIANA IS PLAN OF COMMISSION. [ARTICLE]

SAFE CROSSINGS IN INDIANA IS PLAN OF COMMISSION.

Indianapolis, Jan. 2.—lndiana railroad and interurban crossings are to be made safer next year. John W. McCardle, vice-chairman of the public service commission, is behind the movement and declares he will make every effort to end the many accidents that have proved fatal to scores of persons in Indiana. “Indiana as a state must do something to make its railroads and inteururban crossings safer,” said Mr. McCardle, “and one of the things I intend to do next year, as soon as possible after the railroads are returned to their owners, is to work out a plan to promote Safety at crossings.” . _ ' . .. Commissioner McCardle, it is said, baa in mind calling of a conference of railroad and interurban men, automobile association, city and county officials to discuss what shall be done about the situation. He believes that a committee can be appointed to recommend the enactment of agreed legislation along this hne. Mr. McCardle has been stirred to make some definite action as a re■sult of a survey completed by David E. Mathews, chief railroad inspector for the commission, who, with his assistants, has surveyed every steam railroad crrtgnng ni Indiana, numbering more than 10,000. The survey shows that in 1010, 122 persons were killed and “jurod ' these crossings. In 1918, 226 were killed and 294 injured.