The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-08
TEN PERSONS.
 ARE INJURED Street Car Collision on Commerce. NO ONE E SERIOUSLY HURT Belt Line Car Crashes Into One on
 Electric Park Line. cres.-over switch Was osen, and Belt Car Turned Upon Wrong Track Before it ceaid Re
 Stopped.
NO ONE IS SERIOUSLY HURT
cras.-over switch Was osep, and

Ten persons were slightly injured and the lives of twice as many i'm perilled by a collision between two street cars at 10:45 yesterday morning nelr the interse ;tion of Commerce and Bibb streets. The injured are:
 Mrs. H. c. Champion. of 40S Martha street. ear and hand cut.
 Max Champion. two year old son of Mrs H .. chamnion, gashes en the head
 J. R. McDonaid, of ss Robinson street. dep cut above the left eye.
 Mrs. Robert Lewis. of 420 Martha street. bruised.
 Walter Lewis. four year old son of Mrs. Robert Lewis. finger slightly cut
 Mrs. J. D. Coins, of ss7 Mildred street, bruised and two little children one bruised about the head and the other slightly cut.
 W. E. Berry. cut about the face and head
 Unknown negress. severely bruised and shaken up.
 outside of the big fence surrounding the place where the Gay-Teague hotel is under construction. Just as a Belt Line car rounded the curve from Bihh into Commerce street it crashed into an Electric Park car bound in the opposite direction. The impact was hear for blocks around. The front end of the Belt Line car was completely shattered and broken glass was strewn in every direction. The motorman of the Belt Line car saved himself by crowding into cor ner when he saw that collision was inevitable. The Electric Park car contained on- ly few passengers. but the Belt Line car was filled. largely with wo- men and children. Mrs. Champion and Mrs. Lewis end their children had 8 narrow escape from losing their lives. They were sitting on the front seats of the car, next to the part that was damned against the Electric Park car.
 Outside of few bruises sndsthe at- tending shock and Jar. the injuries of all the passengers were caused by dy- ing pieces of glass.
 Little Max Champion, son of Mrs. H. c. Champion, was probably worst hurt of all. The two year old tot was cut on the left side of his head. just back of the ear, also on the fore-' head and just below the left eye. Ale though he lost considerable blood. he did not murmur and heroically waited at nearby drugstore until a physi- clan had dressed his wound and the tfeN2SNAA9Sk1s The unknown negress was probably most severely hurt next to the Cham pion child. From her bruises she was suffering intensely when she was taken In carriage to her home. Mrs. Champion sustained an ugly cut on the ear, besides having one of her hands scratched by the glass.
 The injuries of other passengers were
 all of a minor nature. The accident, 1t appeared. was caused by a cross-over switch being open. At
 this point there is quite a network of tracks. The Belt Line in proceeding to the Square from Bibb Street, takes the track on the west side of Com
 merce Street, while all cars going the
 opposite direction use the east track.
 The Electric Park car was on the cor rect rails but when the Belt Line car rounded the Bibb Street curve. the cross-over switch was thrown wrong and the mass of iron and timber crash ed over on the east track, piling Into
 the Electric Park car.
 The Belt Line car rebounded fully fifty feet with its front end shattered and all of it's glass structure broken to flinders. while the Electric Park car
 escaped almost undamaged.
 Intensely excited, Alderman Lobman rushed on the scene Sfew moments after the collision and. in heated terms
 
 demanded of Patrolman Bush that the car men be at once arrested and im- prisoned.
 And if necessary" added the Alder man, "arrest the General Manager and lock him up too"
 Patrolman Bush replied that he could lock them up but they had the right to make bond. as well as any other citizen,
 J. V. Bailey and J. c. Johnson. mo- torman and conductor of the Electric Park car. and H. A. Thompson and C. D. Hornsby. motorman and conductor of the Belt Line car, were arrested by Patrolmen Bush and Jordan. At the
 police barracks, they each made bond for $100.
 At the trial before the Recorder yes- terday afternoon. Motorman Thompson was fined $2 and costs. while the three remaining car men were dischargeo.