The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-13
BAD WRECK
 ON FRISCO Pullman Conductor Is Horribly Mangled. MANY PASSENGERS INJURED Smash-up Occurred on Pratt City
 Crossing. Engineer on L. and N. Freight Train Lost Control of Brakes--Ea-
 slneer And Fireman Jump- sa For Their Lives. Y

Birmingham, ,oct., 12.-(special)--A Louisville and Nashville Railroad freight train. going southward. ran into the incoming Frisco passenger train on the Pratt City crossing shortly after o'clock this morning, and as con sequence the Pullman conductor. T. Clifford Smith. was killed outright. and a dozen passengers on the sleeping car Leeds" injured. none fatally.
 The Frisco train was heavily ladened with passengers and in addition. the private car of Vice. President Gray of the system, was on the rear end. The chair car just ahead-of the sleeping car Leeds" had taken on fifty pas sengers at Jasper. Ala, alone. people coming to the city to the fair. The heavy freight train of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was not moving very rapidly when 1t struck the sleep fnE car Leeds almost sm the center. ' The engineer of the freight, J. F. Donohue. was at the throttle and was not going over three miles an hour. he says. when he discovered that his brakes were working badly. He called for brakes and efforts were made to stop the train. consisting of thirty-four cars loaded with slag and other material. Seeing that a collision was was inevitable, the Frisco passenger train going over the crossing. Donohue and his fireman both jumped from the engine and the next minute the crash was on.
 The conductor, evidently was in the vestibuIe of the car when the collision took place. The messengers were still asleep as 1t is customary for the sleep ing car to be held in the station after arriving. until the passengers have all gotten up. The car in addition to hav- ing a big hole knocked in its side. turned over. Smith was thrown direct- ly in front of the big mogul engine and horribly crushed It was some hours before he was taken out. His death was instantaneous. as the body was horribly mangled.
 The passengers In the sleeping car were in great consternatkou and had to ba gotten out through ssindowS and the use of ladders. No one was fatal " injured. The following were more or less hurt:
 F. T. Williams. assistant general freight agent of the Frisco railroad, headquarters in Memphis, knee hurt and cut on face.
 William Goldsmith, of Rochester, N. r., cut about the head and back sprain-
 L. H. weathers. Memphis. slightly injured; carried to Hillman hotel.
 J. wedding and J. Stern. travelling men, BliRhes taken 70 FloFenco n0CeI. /
 John c. Hill, Vernon, Ala. cut about the head.
 L. D. Gulley, Birmingham. slight
 O.. B. Newman, Birmingham. postal clerk.
 A. R. Bartholomew. Memphis. slight: carried to the HilimAn hotel.
 B. B. Balkeney, an Gttorney, Shaw ney, Oklahoma, slight, carried to hotel.
 Several others were shaken up.
 The sleeping car was badly damaged. The injured passengers were brought to the city immediately. It was some time after the wreck before the body of Smith could be taken out.
 J. Clifford Smith was the third son of Mrs. Alice Smith. of Birmingham, and a brother of Eli F. Smith, vice. president and managing editor of The Birmingham News. He was 34 years of age and came to Birmingham from South Carolina in 1890. He took a position with the Pullman Company in May this year and up to a few weeks ago, ran west of the Mississippi river, The funeral will take place Sunday afternoon, interment in Elmwood ceme- tery. The dead man was unmarried.