The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-04
TRAINS RUN
 INTO BREWTON Collision Causes Stir in
 the Town. NO PERSONS ARE KILLED
Engines Tear Down House and
 Strike Mill.
vimber Ra%p Of Cedar Creek Gem paay |. shattered aaa Cars are Tsae.seDsa7 wssek 's
 Freakish.

Rrewton, Feb. a.--(Epecial. )--one engine lying on its side in a pondsof water. another with it's pilot badly crushed and still another more or Tess damageds together with several freight cars. three Of which were teIescoped. the timber ramp at the Cedar Creek Mill Company's plant shattered at one end: the storage room at the planer eide-swiped and damaged; the wood chain to the mill with its supports torn from its foundation; a negro house almost demolished by the impact, and an engineer slightly injnred--tnis IS the story, in brief of q head-end col- Iision here this morning at 7:s0 o'clock betwsen train No. IS, south- bound and second section of train No. z2, north-bound.
 Local freight train No. 22. in charge of Engineer Devinny and Condnct0r Posey. arrived at the station some minutes before train No IS was due and the crew had left the greater number of It's cars on atse main line. and had gone with other ears and the engine to do its regular switching in the yards of the Cedar Creek Mill Conn pany.
 The switch to the spur track running out to these mills Is about 300. yards above the station. There is another switch above this one leading to the
 
 going south e short distance above the Cedar Creek switch.
 Trains Crash T0wether.
 Both trains had passing orders, and as Train Mo- Is came in sight of the station with it's double header conlpos- ed of Engine No. 10s1 in front with En- gineer Grayitt at the throttle and c. No. 1o9g. Engineer Rhodes and Hub bard Rutledge, a negro fireman an eft fort was made to slow down for the brakeman to turn q switch. According to the statement of one of the engi- neers. the air failed to work. and with a down grade of hslf-fnile or more the train could not be brought. to 3 atop. Conductor R. L. Dees was In charge or Train No. IS.
 Swinging into the open switch lead ing to the luiaber mills at a speed ot perhaps twenty miles an hour, Engi- neer Gravitt saw only about hfty. yards ahead Of him on the sharp curve the engine and several box cars of Train No. 22 and made every effort to stop his train, sticking to his engine until the two had come together and nis own was hurled from the track, plow- ing it's way through mud and water and striking negro house full in the center. landing in . pond of water part -Iy submerged on its side.
 Engineer Gravitt shut om steam as quickly as possible and had to crawl over the tender of his engine to get ous of fine wreckage. His fireman jumped from the engine just before the coias- ion. ss.,
 Tn the second engine of this train. Eneineer Rhodes, after reversing his engine, in attempting to jump, sustain ed a slight Injury to his right knee. The negro fireman. Hubbard Rutledge. attemptedf to jump, but was thrown from the engine just as 1t struck Iralp No. IS. but was not tn5ureo.
 Engineer Devinny noticing the ap- croachina. trains as his engine was comine out of the siding reversed his enrine and Jumped just as the Two trains came together.
 Rams Into a Milt.
 His own engine only had its pllos smashed. and being reversed the tram picked up speed as 1t neared other rafe standIng on the tracks at the Shipping department of the mill, which if struck with terrific force, teleecep- lnr three box ears and doing consider abie damage to the mih building- wherever the derailed cars came m con tact with them.
 ramp stood Ernest Davis and negro helper, both of whom jumped before fine orlcoming train demolished part of the structure on which they stood, and shook 1t to it's foundation.
 Tn one of the cars on the siding were some negro laborers unloading brick. who were warned by their overseer to tnnnY5 One of them failed to hear the alarm. and after the collision he was seen extricating himself from the bricks that had fallen all around nim, ana gettfng clear of the wreckage in au angry manner demanded, to- know what was the matter.
 Running at right angles to the track { ana the main mill building there are two large chains with blocks attached used in carrying off wood and slabs from the mill. To the rear and. side of the nfn is large pond from which