The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17
A. B. Raines is Perhaps Fatally Hurt. AUTO TURNS OVER
 ON HIGH BEREAVEMENT Driver Was Looking After Ladys
 Safety. Alter Falling over and Over Car Pinioned Mr. Rsines in Puddle of wsser st Foot of Embspk-
 ment.

Lookfnr backward to ascertain If woman driving frightened horse was safe, George [. Harris, driving ms automobile. yesterday allowed it D swerye from the Carter Hill Road, SIX miles from Montgomery, Into the ditch twelve feet below. and in the wreck which followed. A. B. Raines was pinioned under the machine seriously injured and almost drowned in the water that filled the ditch; Mrs. Raines. held temporarily by the car, was pain fully cut upon the face; Mrs. Harris suffered severe sprains of back and arm; MT. Harris, least hurt of all suf- fered a bad wrench of the back. Miss Julia Harris escaped with slight. cut on her lip.
 MT. Raines the most badly injured of the party, was hurt In the heeo, and one of his ribs were broken ana he may die. He was under the machine for several minutes before Mr. Harris and the few men available for assist ance could lift the car and take him to; safety and during part of that lime his head was beneath the water. lie was nearly drowned and was uncon- scfous.
 The scene was terrifying. lm- mediately after the accident MT Raines and the others of the party was taken to farmhouse half mile distant. Physicians, immediately sum- moned, there rendered first aid. Later the injured were removed to the city and Mir. Raines was placed in 2 hos pital.
 The news of the accident quickly spread. It was first reported that MT. Raines and at least one other person had been Killed and 1t was long before more definite and more correct inc formation could be had as it was some. time before the injured could be brought to Montgomery.
 Mir. Harris's concern for the safety of the woman driving past him was the cause of the accident. On high cut nea< the Hunter Nauglhn place the party In the autornpbiie met two buggies. in which were Afr. and Mrs, James D.. Farley and his sisk6r and children. Mr. Farley got safely pact the machine, which Harris had slow ed, but the horse in the second ye- hicle was frightened and turned from the road down the embankment. The occupants were not hurt.
 MT. Harris. warned by Mrs Harris. of the impending accident. looked back and the machine. deprived for a mo- ment of the guidance of the chauf- feur, sweryed from the road and was precipitated into the pool of water that lay at the bottom of the excaya- ton.
 None had an opportunity to, jump and all fell with the machine.
 Mr. Harris said last night that he {. believed the machine must have turn ed over as it fell. perhaps three times He. Mrs. Harris and Miss Har- ris were thrown clear of the machine. Mir Raines and Mrs. Ratnes were caught beneath the heavy car.
 MT. Harris, sufrsFtnE only severe wrench of the back quickly began the work of rescue. in which he had the k1xr a@R rna1as n who happened to be near. Mrs. Raines was quickly extricated and she and Mrs. Raines who was very painfully hurt were placed in the car.
 The predicament of Mr. Raines was frightfuI. As he lay under the ma chine his face was under the water nearly all of the several minutes he lay there and to the dreadful suspi- cion his succorers had that he might have been kiIld by the fall of the machine was aded the fear that he might be drowned before the car could be removed. As the number of help CTS increased. however. greater pro gress was made and the ponderouA machine was turned so far as to per- init the unconscious man to be re- moved.
 Imnaediately Mir. Raines was rescued the entire party was removed in the automobiie of ". A. Safield. who was
 
 of the injured, to farmhouse. Phy- sicians were summoned and as rap- idly as they arrived they treated the wounded. It was seen that Mrs Raines was suffering only from flesh wounds and that Mfr. Harris and Mrs. Harris was not dangerously injured.
 It was Mr. Raines whose condition alarmed the physicians as 1t had his friends who removed him from the wreck He was unconscious. and though A minute examination could not be made last night, after he was taken to a hospital. it was readily ascertain ed that his hurts might probably prove to be fatal. At the farm house where he lay all possible was done for his immediate comfort, but no real assist ance could be rendered until after the party came to Montgomery.
 Mir. Raines was said last night to be. / fin a serious condition, but he may recover. His most dangerous injury was the result of blow the machine was not fractured the hurt is danger ous. one rib was broken. but that in- jury is not regarded as seriouA
 MT. Raines was unconscious until early this morning when he came into possession of his senses. / At 1880 o'clock he was reported to be im-
 The machine of Mir. Harris. a six eviinder auto-car, was badly wrecked.
 MT. Raines Is a well known business man of Montgomery. He was in charge of the copper plant in North Mont gomery. which was destroyed by fire sonoe ,snonths ago. Mir. and Mrs. Raines reside with Mir. and Mrs. George H. McCombs on Court Street.
 Mir. Harris is one of the best known and successful travelling men of the South. He resides on Wilkinson Street.