The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-31
Crowded Street Car Runs Into Moving Engine and
 Many Passengers Hurt
WRECK OCCURS ON
 TRIPLE CROSSING
Passengers Have Miraculous Escape. Trailer Runs Nearly a Mile After Breaking LoOse-Three Per
 some Are Seriously Hurt

Over a score of persons are known to have been injured in head-on col lision between Southern freight train No. $, in charge of Engineer A. F. Gam ble and Pratt-Ensley street car No. 2l9 in charge of Motorman Carpenter, at East Highland station, near Pratt City, last night at o'clock. The street car was reduced to splinters, almost, but no one was killed The car was filled with passengers at the time of the accident, the register showing that 54 fares had been collected. It is thought that the failure of air brakes on the street car was responsible for the accident.
 The trailer provided for negroes was . broken loose from the car by the force of the collision and ran wild for over mile finally stopping at Thomas sta ton. The negroes on the car were thrown in a panic and one negro man, whose name could not be learned last night, jumped from the window as the runaway car crossed q trestle and was seriously injured. The trailer was also well filed at this time.
 LIST OF INJURED
 The known seriously injured, all of whom live in or near Pratt City are as follows:
 c. S LaCrane, broken arm. sprained leg and bodily injuries. Mrs. w. H. Barnard. thought to have suffered a broken shoulder and received many painful bruises.
 Frank Barnes, a 5-year-old boy. of B Third avenue, broken nose and bad scratches.
 Painfully bruised scratched, sprained and jared:
 Mrs. R. H. Spencer and daughter.
 Eugene Meehan
 Will Mackinaw. MT Johnson of East Thomas
 Mrs. Henry Mills Mrs. Thomas Wright. Miss Ruby Hayes. C. B. Wiggins. Motorman Carpenter Tom Gillespy, negro.
 W. Underwood, negro. Clara Clemens negro. Julia Shears, negro. Mayme Thornton, negro The call for help was answered by Sam Foley's ambulance, Ensley, and by Shaw, Johns and Lige Loy of Birming- ham, and by the T. c. I. ambulance
 FIRST ON THE SCENE 4 John Fool who lives within 100 feet of the spot where the accident occurred was the first on the scene, carrying the wounded to medical assistance in his private car, He made several trips before other aid arrived pr. s, C. Seay of Pratt City was kept busy until a late hour last night in dressing the wounds of the victims.
 c. $. LaCrane one of the injured. was an eyewitness to the whole accident T was standing just inside the front door before reaching the crossing" he stated last night. We were running at d pretty fair rate after coming down q grade back up the line, I had been on the platform only a minute when saw that the accident was going to hap pen The motorman was in charge of the car, and when his airbrakes failed to work he put the car into reverse, but 1t Was too late to avert the collision. It seems to me that the engineer tried to stop his train also, but the fireman was on the side next to our car and it must have been that his efforts were made toe late The conductor was standing on the front platform, also.
 TRIPLE CROSSING
 The acicdent occurred directly on the triple crossing. The Birming-