The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-08
J. |. MABEN, JR., IS BADLY HURT WHEN
 ENGINE HITS AUTO Three Ribs and Leg Broken and Elbow Crushed Along
 With Bruises 0. c. NIXON SLIGHTLY HURT WHEN HE JUMPED Engine Backing on A., B. & A. Hit the Automobile squarely and Car ried It for . Long Distance
 Down the Track

J. c. Maben, Jr., was seriously in- jured yesterday when the new automo- bile which he was learning to drive was struck by an Atlanta, Birmin ham and Atlantic railroad engine near Bes- semer. The automobile was literally ground to pieces under the massive wheels of the engine and MT. Maben saved his life only by rare presence of mind.
 In the car with Mir Maben was C.. c. Nixon, the automobile man, who was teaching MT. Maben to drive his new Cadillac car MT. Nixon was slight ly hurt.
 The wounded man was placed aboard the engine and hurried to Bessemer, where he was taken to the Robinson infirmary. He was given surgical at tendance by the physicians of the in- stitution and was later brought to Birmingham and taken to the Davis infirmary. Dr. Davis last night said: "Mr. Maben is seriously injured, but do not think fatally. He has three ribs broken, the right leg broken be- low the knee, his elbow crushed and cuts and bruises all over his body. I do not believe that there is any complicated internal injury and have every hope that MT. Maben will re- cover in reasonable length of time. He is resting well now, Is conscious and seems to be suffering very little. His wife is at his bedside and will remain there all night"
 The car which Mir. Maben was driv- ing was struck squarely by the loco a distance of 100 yards MT. Nixon jumped when he saw the collision was about to occur, but MT. Maben was behind the steering wheel and could not jump. When the engine struck the car he was thrown out, but se- curing a hold on the engine he clung to the locomotive and was dragged 100 yards until the engine could be stopped. The automobile was total wreck. It had just been purchased from the c. c. Nixon Co. MT. Ma ben was on his daily trip to Davis Creek, where his mines are located MT. Maben is one of the officials of the mining company and his father, J. c. Maben, Sr., Is president of the company.
 The crossing where the accident oc- cured is considered a very danger | ous one. To the right of the high way as it approaches the railroad is deep cut and on the opposite side t. r1.e claimed, was backing through this cut at swift speed and the occupants Of the car did not see it until the two vehicles were right together.
 MT. Nixon gave the following account of the accident last night:
 We did not see the engine until it was right on top of us. It shot out from the cut in the side of the bank like a dart I realized what was going to happen and started to jump My foot was on the running board of the car when the engine struck 1t and the impact threw me end over end into the air. I did not see Mir Maben until the engine had stopped and he was picked up from in front of it. The engine was going back wards and I think that Mir. Maben must .kave held on to that railing at the back of the locomotive while the car was being trapped down the track If he had released his hold before the locomotive stopped he would have fallen to the track and been ground to pieces. We were both lucky that we were not killed instantly"
 MT. Nixon himself was very badly bruised and cut. He seemed to have struck the ground on his head and one ear is cut and bruised.
 Mir. Maben, Sr., on being informed of the accident, left his office in the Woodward building and hurried to Bessemer to be with his son.