The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-02
BREMEN IN
 AN ACCIDENT Four Fire Fighters Were
 Injured. HURTS ARE NOT SERIOUS Occurred at Corner of Alabama and Court Streets. Brave Ladies of Five Peints Were Thrown From Hose Carriage Af- ter Excitias Run Down
 Clayton Street HiII.
 

Four Montgomery nremen were yes terday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock pain fully injured through the careening oi a hose carriage on the corner of Ala hama and South Court Streets. The injured men were all attached to the Five Points station, Captain Harry Barnard sustained a sprained back and several other bruises; Henry Jackson, a pipeman, was painfully cut and bruised about the face and head; E. A. lille. pipeman, received severe bruise on the left leg and was badly shaken up, while Pipeman A. Phillfppi escaped with a sprained ankle.
 The injured firemen were last night reported to be resting well and their injuries are not regarded as serious.
 The hose wagon was badly mutilated. The left front wheel was completely shattered, the axle was sprung, the tongue was broken and the brass hx- lures were crushed. It will tatke some time to repair the wagon.
 About 4:25 o'clock small blaze was discovered in the roof of two-room frame house, occupied by servants. in the rear of the residence of Mrs. Car rie Lomax, on the northeast corner of Alabama and Court Streets. Barely two minutes later. telephone alarm was sent in, but the alarm had hardly reached the department when the oc- cupants of the house. assisted by a brigade of small boys. succeeded in put ting out the fire with slight damage. The alarm had been sent in. and the firemen were on their way. Three min utes later the fire apparati of the Scott Street station reached the scene of the fire.
 A few seconds had elapsed when the fremen of the Five Points station came into sight. The hose wagon had gained an enormous momentum by the drive down the steep Clayton Street hill. Near the corner of Clayton and Scott Streets. 8 pedestrian hailed the hose wagon ana driver Leonard Curtis immediately saw that the call was from Alabama Street. Putting on his brakes he turned into Court Street and then tried to execute another sharp reverse turn into Ala bama Street The brakes had no appa- rent effect and the wagon dashed on wildly.
 The horses were pulled in but the brick pavement of South Court Street afforded the animals no foothoid ana the horses were powerless 10 assist In checking to impetus gained by the heavy apparatus. The wagon was head ed diagonally for a point between the corner of the Lomax property and a large oak tree on the sidewalk Tne apparatus was hurled over the side walk, on to the pavement and against the front yard curbing. The wagon was turned over on it's side and It IS believed that no man who had fallen under the apparatus could have escap- ed alive.
 Pipeman Jackson was found crouch ed between the wagon and the yard wall He was pulled out by citlzens who had instantly gathered. and the Scott street and Madison Avenue hre- men, the later having reached the fire a few seconds later.
 It was feared at first that Pipeman Jackson had been serious or probably fatally injured. Neigh5ors at once brought stimulants and the pipeman was soon completely revived although he suffered severe pain from the cuts and bruises which he received
 Captain Barnard and Pipemen lille and Phillippi were thrown several rect into the front yard of the Lomax residence when the crash came. Capt. Barnard suffered intense pain from a sprained back and every effort was made to give him relief. Pipeman lille sustained very painful bruise on his left leg and Pipeman Phillippi sufkred great pain from sprained ankle A surgeon was hurriedly sum- moned and the four injured nremen were taken back to the Five Points station where they received surgical attention.
 Driver Leonard Curtis was uninjured. His position was a perilous one He was strapped to his seat and unable even to make one effort to jump for his life.
 As soon as the accident occurred. there was grave anxiety in the momentary belief that one or more or the firemen had been buried beneath AL huf hn a mn r. raised a few feet from it's side when it was seen that no human being was under it.
 been assured, the firemen and citizens, under the direction of Fire Chief Browder and Assistant Fire Chief Grif- filth, set to work and soon had the dilapi- dated carriage on it's wheels. It was night before the wagon had been re- moved and it's paraphernalia had been transferred to one of the older wagons of the service which was put into com mission.
 By a peculiar train of circumstances, the multilated wagon was not the hose apparatus that is regularly used at the Five Point station. It was the appa- ratus that was to have been put into service at o'clock this morning at the new West End station. The regu- lar Five Points wagon was disabled in a run late Saturday night to a fire on Chandler street in North Montgom- cry A bolt was lost or unloosened and the wagon was temporarily out of the service. The wagon, intended for the West End station, was immediate ly transferred to the Five Points sta tion.
 It will not be necessary to put any additional firemen in the places OI tue injured men and the regular routine