The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-26
GIRL BURNED BY AN ELECTRIC WIRE Injuries Are Painful But Not
 Fatal WIRE BROKEN BY STORM Pratt City and Pell City VIII Play Baseball at the Latter Place Next saturday-WiII Decide the
 State Championship.
WIRE BROKEN BY STORM

Pratt City, August 25.-(Special) )-Aya and Fay Layton. aged respectively Il and 8 years, children of Hr. and Mrs. F. l.. Layton, on First street, were seriously burned this morning by coming in con tact with a live wire said to belong to the Birmingham Railway Light and Power company, which had been broken down by the wind and rain storm.
 The two children were crossing the street near East Highland station when the older girl came In contact with the wire, grasping 1t with her hand. She was instantly thrown to the ground. Her sis ter. In making an effort to free her from the wire. was also severely burned before they could be rescued by people attract ed by their screams.
 The hands of both children are very badly burned. The older child was most seriously injured, one of her hands being frightfully scared on the inside. Both the little girls are resting very well this afternoon and the doctor in attendance hopes to save the hands without very great disfiguration.
 The storm at this place was very se-
 
 were. The heavy rain did much dam age and many of the telephone and other wires were prostrated. The telephone ser- vice was greatly demoralized for time
 Pratt City vs. PeI City.
 Pratt City will play a game of baseball with the Pell City team at the latter place next Saturday. This will be a chal- lenge game and the Pratt City team is determined to win.
 "Pell City has been boasting that It had the champion amateur team in the state" said Captain Mickey O'Brien of the Pratt City team, this morning.
 We challenged them for game two or three times and our challenges were ignored. We could not get even a reply to our letters. So when they boasted of the state championship we challenged them through The Age-Herald and they were compelled to reply. They accepted and we play next Saturday.
 You can just state in The Age Herald that we will be ready to play any other team desiring to boast of the state championship after next Saturday.
 Whip them? Why, we will whip those Pell City boys until they will blush to own that they ever played ball.
 Local and Personal.
 Miss Lucille Cook, who has been visit ing Miss Marguerite Arnold, returned to her home in Empire today
 The Ice cream supper which was to have been given at East Highland sta tion tonight by the Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian church, was postponed on account of the rain, until next Friday night.
 Members of the Rebekah lodge at Brookside will attend the regular meet ing of Carnation lodge No. 46 at Pratt City next Tuesday night. There will be work in the degrees and the Brook side sisters desire to see the method of work in the Pratt City lodge The lodge will make the meeting one of special social interest in honor of their guests
 The male chorus which was recently or ganized at this place with twenty-two male voices met with Ed Donaldson last night and practiced several selections They will meet again next Monday night at Foleys hall when they will complete the organization and select a suitable name for the club The club will meet at FOley's hall regularly