Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1912 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWB ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. I START FIVE WRECK PROBES Railroad Commission May Start Court Proceedings Against C, H. & D. for Failure to Install Block Signals, as Ordered. Indianapolis, Nov. 15.—Five separate Investigations of the wreck on the C., H. & D. railroad in Irvington were started today. Two inspectors of the interstate commerce commission are in Indianapolis to begin the Inquiry of that body, and the railroad commission of Indiana has also started Its investigation. Coroner Durham expects to examine witnesses and Judge Markdy of criminal court has ordered the grand Jury, with special Instructions, to begin an Inquiry. R. B. White, division superintendent of the road, stated he also had started his Investigation. It became known that the railroad commission of Indiana contemplateed action in courts against the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad. The failure of the railroad to install block signals, as ordered by the commission. Is the ground on which the actiqn is being ' considered. Chairman Wood of the commission made public the commission’s order to the railroad under date of May 9, 1912, In which the company was ordered, under the block signal law of Indiana, to equip that part of its line between Glenwood and the Ohio state line with automatic block j signals. ,