Article taken from The Columbus Dispatch, November 21, 1895
Special to the Dispatch, Portsmouth, O., Nov. 21
The city council has ordered the mayor to strictly enforce an ordinance requiring all railroad trains to be run at a rate of speed not exceeding seven miles per hour while within the city limits.
This action is taken because of the refusal of the Norfolk & Western and the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern to put up safety gates at important grade crossings. The ordinance had never been enforced although passed twenty years ago. The roads mentioned have each over two miles of track within the city limits.