The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-15
bESSEMER NEWS

Bessemer, October 14.-tSpecial.)-B. F. Thomas was run over by pas senger train on the Louisville and Nashville railroad this afternoon about S;30 o'clock between Feeders and Sloss mines and was fatally injured From what could be learned MT Thomas. who lives at Lipscomb had been to the Feeders commissary for some groceries and was walking down the track carrying some flour. meat and coffee when the passenger train going to Tuscaloosa came along and he did not know the train was near until he was struck. Jacobs ambulance was imme- diately summoned and the injured man hospital where upon examination it was found that both legs were broken and his skull was fractured. Every thing that medical aid could do to re- lieve the man was done but he died at 6 o'clock. The deceased was 53 years of age and has lived in this district for many years, where he is we'll known and highly respected. He is survived by his widow and several children. Fu- neral arrangements have not vet been made.
 1t has been announced that the fires in No. l furnace of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad company would be started this week and the first run of pig iron from this stack would be made in about 10 days The furnace has been put in first class condition a large amount of money having been expended for this purpose. With this plant in operation, three of the five Furnaces at Bessemer will be turning out pig iron. It is also stated that an- other stack will be ready to be blown within the month and this will give the company an output of 1000 tons or pig iron at Bessemer daily
 The Bessemer High school football team this afternoon demonstrated it's ability to play good, fast football on d heavy field and against a heavier team when it defeated the secoRd team from Howard college by the decisive score of 20 to 6. keeping the ball in How ard territory all the time and never being in danger after the first four minutes of play.
 The game opened up with line play ing by both sides. Howard was unable to penetrate the locals defense and in the first three minutes of play was forced to kick out of danger on the fourth down. Duke kicked for the vis- itors and the muddy field prevented the local backs from covering the punt and the visitors captured it and carried the ball over with an end run. They failed to kick goal.
 The ball was carried back to center and Howard kicked off to Bessemer when Charley Scott received the kick touchdown, making one of the pret- tiest broken field runs ever seen on the local gridiron. He took care of four drag tackles and eluded the rest of the field. After that it was all Bes- semer's game and except for occasion- al braces taken by the visitors Bes- semer was able to carry the ball through the line or around the end at will for successive gains. The forward pass was only attempted three times by the locals and only one of them got by. pass to Cowan resulting in a clear gain of 35 yards.
 Charles Scott made two of the touchdowns for the locals and on each occasion made them through his abil- ity to get away quickly and elude tacklers. The last one was made with only 15 seconds to play. The other touchdown was made by Evans for Bessemer after a series of line plunges and end runs.
 The lineup was as follows:
 Bessemer-Houston. center. s. Mar tin, right guard Robert Lee left