The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-13
RAIN DAMAGES THE RAILROAD TRACKS Streets of Selma Flooded by
 the Downpour
TWO MEN KILLED SUNDAY
Quarrel Among Four Men Near Peter man Results FataIIy-Young Man Takes Overdose of Nor
 phlne in Selma.

Selma, January 12.-(Special l. The raIn- fall in this section for the past twenty four hours has Leen almost mp .cce1ert- ed. Considerable damage has been done to railroad bridges and trestles and large quantities of live stock are reported to have perished in the lowlands.
 The government gauge at this point registered 402 inches this morning at o'clock for the past twenty-four hours. heaviest part of the rain in this vicinity fen between midnight and early morning and the streets of the city were flooded.
 The Cahaba river rose at such a rapid rate that this morning the water was over the false work of the new bridge that is being put over the stream by the Southern railway and all trains on the Akron, Meridian and Mobile division of that system were delayed several hours.
 From the vicinity of Central Mills and Blalocks in the valley through which the Boguechitto creek runs reports have come today of many herds of cattle be- ing seen that were drowned during the night. The Bogue' is a diminutive stream usually but when a heavy rain fall comes it spreads over large space and frequently does great damage
 Related Reports of Killing.
 Word reached the city today Of shooting scrape by which two white men lost their lives near Peterman on the Louisville and Nashville railroad in Mon roe county on Sunday last. One of the men was named Cramey and the other Smith. The reports as received here state that MT. Cramey had not visited the section where he met his death In thirty years and moved to Texas about that long ago. Sunday he took walk over his old tramping ground and stopped in at a negro cabin to warm Three brothers by the name of Smith came along and stopped in the same house and the four got into quarrel resulting in the Smith brothers daring the old man outside the house. MT. Cramey, it seems, took the dare, and as he stepped out of the door he opened fire on the Smiths, the latter returning the same. One of the Smiths was killed as was also MT. Cramey.
 Took an Overdose of Morphine.
 A young man hailing from down the Alabama river came near taking his last long journey over the morphine route vesterday evening. He arrived in Selma Tuesday and took a room at the Hotel AIbert, That night he went on spree
 
 and yesterday morning called on pr. B. B. Rogan for a prescription to steady his nerve. He only took one dose of the prescription and was not seen any more unlil yesterday evening about o'clock he walked up to the bar in the hotel and while standing at the counter sank to inc floor into a deep stupor. He was con yeyed to his room and Drs. Rogan and Pitts summoned. They found a bottle of morphine in his pocket and began at once with the stomach pump. The bot tie had a capacity for ffty-seven grains of the white powder and upon being weighed it was found that eighteen grains were missing. The physicians worked with the man heroically and succeeded in getting him out from under the influence of the drug. Had the phy- sicIans been a little later there is no doubt but that he would have been dead man.