The age-herald., 1901-01-10
STREET GAR WRECK
 AT TWELFTH STREET Serious Accident in Which Sev-
 eraI Persons Are Hurt ARTHUR s. HUST INJURED
Flat Car Crashed Into and Overturned West End Street Car Filled With Prominent Persons - Women
 Pulled Through Windows.

A serious accident in which Arthus S. Hust, Associated Press operator for the Age-Herald, was badly hurt and a score of lives placed in jeopardy, occurred at the Twelfth street crossing of the Powderly line of the Birmingham Railway and Power Company, in First avenue late yesterday afternoon.
 At about 5:2O o'clock car No 12O with about thirty people aboard, was run into and upset by train of freight cars being handled by a Louisville and Nashville switching crew, and the wonder is that number of lives were not lost.
 The accident was the result of careless ness, and again revives the question of proper protection of life and limb at rail- road crossings in the city.
 The car, which was in charge of Motor man Durrer and Conductor McNeill, was coming into the city and had almost cleared the crossing when it was struck almost mid way by fatcar that had been forced out of the siding on the south side of the street railway track by engine.
 The register of the car shows that twenty fares had been collected and besides these passengers there were number of em- ployes of the company who were coming to the city. Among the passengers aboard the ill-fated car were H. H. Mayberry, Hamp- ton Smith, William M. Baily, w. P. and Thomas Ward, David Roberts, w. G. Estes. J. D. Kirkpatrick MT. Hust and others, in- cluding number of ladies' several of whom suffered slight bruises and cuts.
 How it Happened.
 4I,. tI.. dng on the second track south of the elec- tric line and that a switch engine backed into them for the purpose of pulling them out. They were within a few feet of the street line and when the engine backed into them they were driven forward the slack carrying them against the electric car which, as above stated, was just cross- ing the track.
 There is no watchman at the crossing and the motorman did not see the danger until the was struck. The freight cars were not moving at a high rate of speed and the electric car toppled over slowly clearing its trucks and landed on its side. Mir HuSt had just gone out on the rear platform, and his left leg was caught be- heath the step of the car and his ankle badly crushed, although an examination showed that no bones were broken. There was great consternatlon among the pas sengers, and soon as they could pull themselves together they made their way out of the car through a window, the la dies being pulled up by the men. MT Hust, who was the most seriously hurt, was pinned down by the car and suffered in- tense pain. He begged some one to kill him, so great was his agony, but willing hands soon set to work and released him from his painful position and carried him into the office of the Birmingham Southern Railway. Although suffering almost ex- cruciating pain, his first care was his du- ties and he requested that the Age-Herald office be teephoned in order that arrange ments might be made to fill his place, which is an important one.
 Physicians Arrived Quickly.
 As soon as the accident occurred Dr. Presley of Presley & Brown, the Louis- vile and Nashville physicians, was notified and he soon arrived on the scene with an ambulance and Mir. Hust was removed to St. Vincents Hospital, where it was found that his injuries were not as serious as were thought, although his ankle was terribly bruised.
 Superintendent Weleh and other officials of the Louisville and Nashville, and Super intendent McClary of the Birmingham Rail- way and Power Company soon arrived at
 
 and the track cleared.
 MT. Bailey who was a passenger on the car, gives the following description of the accident and the feeling experienced by the passengers:
 Mir. Bailey's Story.
 q was sitting the south side of the car," said Mir Bailey, very near the point at which the car was struck. I suppose there were about dozen persons in the white compartment, several being ladies. We were crossing the tracks at First ave- nue and Twelfth street, coming into the city, going, 1 suppose, at a speed of six seven miles an hour. The car was struck by flat freight car, which struck the car on the side on which I was sitting about one-third the distance from the front end. Our car was knocked over and I ceved several small bruises. The freight car which struck us must have been going very slow was well under controlsfor it stopped within three or four feet after we were struck.
 ''We tried to get out of the car door but could not. Some man then broke window on the upper side of the car and he and the rest of us climbed out. We drew the ladies up through the window. I asked several of them if they were hurt and they said they were not. There was a man outside under heath the car begging to be shot. All the men helped lift the car up, and with the aid of jack we succeeded and the man was pulled out. I don't know who he was.' The accident happened at 5:20 D. m. It was due to gross carelessness on some body's part, as it was light enough to see distinctly a distance of one hundred yards.
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