The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-18
FLYING CAR INJURIES B Brakes Failed, Collision Followed. PASSENGERS WERE IN PANIC Four White Persons and Nine
 Negroes Hurt. Platforms Were Demolished and Carmen Were Arrested---None of the The
 Jured is in Serious
 Condition.

I passengers, crashed into each other at l z o'clock yesterday morning on South Lawrence Street. just off Dexter Ave- nue, as the result of one of them, com Ing down the steep Lawrence Street | hill, running wild when the brakes on the car failed to catch proper hold of | the slippery rails. In the smash-up four white men were slightly injured, and nine negroes were badly shaken up. two quite severely. One of the largest cars In the service of the Montgomery Traction Company. In use on the Highland Avenue line, was coming down the hill toward the switch near the intersection of Law | renee Street and Dexter Avenue. This car was In charge of J. q. Arberry as motorrnan and w l.. Ingram as con- ductor, when 1t was discovered, block or two from the switch, that the brakes were not working on the slippery rails, and that the car was sliding down hil1 with great velocity, toward a Perry Street car. which was waiting at the | foot of the hill for the approaching car to. make the switch. Moterman Arberry turned on the re- verse current, only to have the switch burn out. He turned to help some of the passengers. there being nothing that could prevent a collision with the waiting Perry Street car, which was in charge of O. g. Blocker as motorman and Shepard Gardner as conductor. PIatforns DemoIfshed. The cars came together with crash, the front platforms of both being de- molished, besides all the windows broken. The oncoming Highland Av- enue car jumped the track at the time of the collision, which occurred just at the break of the curve from Dexter Avenue. and shot almost directly across Dexter Avenue, coming to stop in front of the ofice of the Citizens Light and Power Company. while the Perry Street car. that had been stand ing still at the time of the impact was hurled back along the track on Dexter Avenue almost to Perry Street.
 The four employees who had been on the Highland Avenue car by Spe- cial Officer W. F. Payne, and those on the Perry Street car by Bicycle Pa- trolman G. s. Cantey, and were placed under $100 bonds each to appear for trial in the Recorders Court on the charge of causing collision. The hearings of the four men were set for next Tuesday afternoon by Recorder Baber.
 The Highland Avenue car was filled with people going to their work, that being one of the busy hours of the day with nearly all the street car lines. Un- der the lcircumstances It seems almost
  or seriously injured.
 List of the Injured.
 The four white men who were in- jured were as follows:
 W. B. Smith of Highland Avenue, lower leg bruised.
 Mead e. BOzeman of Highland Park. hips bruised, t
 J. L. Bozeman of Highland Park. head, arms and legs bruised; taken to St. Margaret's HosDital.
 P. H. Hauser, ankle sprained by be- ing knocked from car.
 The negroes who were injured, the first two being the most seriously so,
 Charley Johnson, 13s smythe Street head and face badly bruised and cut
 Allen Carleton. IS Highland Avenue letter carrier. head and hand bruised and cut.
 Richard Clark. leg bruised.
 W. A. Howard, wrist and hand bruis- ed.
 Henderson Johnson. hand cut
 Black" Willis, injured in rush out of the car.
 Annie Dix hands cut.
 Abbie Jackson, ankle sprained.
 Mamie Woods ankle sprained and bruised in rush out of car.
 Panic on Flying Car.
 A number of the passengers we're hurt after the danger was over in their wild rush from the flying car to the street. There was perfect jamb of black and white humanity pouring from the door, upon the part of the passengers who. until the collision. did not realize that anything serious was the matter.
 The general idea of the cause of the runaway and consequent disaster was that the brake on the car that broke loose coming down the hill had sud- denly broken, but this is denied by the officers of the car company, 1t being stated that the brake was in good working order, but that the wheels slid on the wet, slippery rails on the steep down grade
 General Manager w. H. Ragland of the Traction Company gave this expla- nation of the disaster to an Advertiser reporter, and also stated that none of those in the accident seemed to have been seriously injured.