The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-25
String of Suffering Humanity Strewn Along Tracks Near Scene
 or Railroad Crossing Accident
Party Returning From West Lake Picnic Meets Death
 and Disaster on Tracks Near Dolomite = Three Dead and Many Injured

Shocked by the dreadful calamity of Friday night, when friends and relatives met death an injury at a railroad cross ing near Dolomite, the people of the communities of Acipco and North Birmingham are
 bowed down with sorrow and the throne of God is being be- seiged with tears and prayers for the recovery of loved one:
 lying at the point of death at the various homes and hospi
 tals.
 Following the crashing of box car pushed by a switch engine into truck loaded with Hght-hearted young peo- pie who were returning from . picnic yesterday morning at 1:30 o'clock. the more or less mangled bodies of Mrs.
 Raymond Fuquay, 22, 1901 Thirty-third
 avenue; Clarence Nichols, 22, and Solon
 Walker, IF, of the same neighborhood'
 were picked up along the tracks nt
 Dolomfte crossing, where the accident
 occurred, and removed to undertake
 ing establishments. FunerN arrange
 ments are being made.
 Lying at the Birmingham infirmary
 and with little hopes held by attend
 ing physicians for her recovery, IS
 Miss Mabel Finley, IT, 1920 Ina street,
 and in other local infirmaries are Miss
 Gladys Sylvester, 1s, 1912 Thirty-fifth
 avenue, and Miss Anna Bell Robertson.
 North Birmingham, whose condition
 last night is reported as being critical
 Those reported to be seriously injured
 are: Mrs. W. G. Hughes, 1720 Ninth
 avenue; Newton Norris, Acipco; Miss
 Hattie Griffith, Acipco; Miss Agnes Norris, Acipco; William Yuelle. Acipco, and -C Holmes, Acipco. Those pain fully hurt are: Miss Myrtle Davis, Mrs. Acuff and her daughter, Miss Hattie Mae Atkins of Acipco; Russell Pruitt. AC1pCO,. MISS GiaQyS fuQudy fACipco, and Miss Ola Miller.
 TRUCKS NOT RACING Two trucks loaded with propably 30 persons each, left the Methodist church at Acipco Friday afternoon for West Lake to enjoy picnic. At l o'clock Saturday morning they left West Lake for home. The following statement was given out by those in the truck which was collided with: "One of the trucks passed the other before we reached the crossing, but we were not racing when the accident happened. The first truck passed over the tracks with safety. When we neared the 1 tracks we saw the approaching engine and number of us shouted to the driv- CT to stop. It may have been that he did not see the dim light attached 10 | the rear of the boxcar. At any rate. he did not stop, but put on speed. When we were on the grade crossing the car struck the truck and when I regained consciousness I was lying beside the tracks"
 The driver, who is said to have been M. L. Wager, for the Pan Transfer company, after narrowly avertinS death, fled through the darkness ard l has not been heard of since. His dis = appearance is said to have been caused | by the angry attitude of some of the relatives of the victims. The train was l in charge of Engineer Duffrey and l Conductor Harris.
 l When the crash came frantic wom- en uttered screams. And then there | were groans and cries. A string of suffering humanity lay along the l tracks for 30 feet, and cries of horror went up from the throat of half hun- dred souls. Cries for Mother" &C., cording to witnesses, were heard over ! T. T 1s- I ters, husbands and wives, with man. gled limbs and bruised bodies called for each other in vain. Scores of peo- I pie hearing the cries ran to the scene and number of these tainted at the sight of it. Emergency calls were sent to the undertakers of Ensley, ] Bessemer and Birmingham. Three
 were sent from Birmingham, while | many of the victims were carried to | hospitals and their homes in private automobiles.
 SCENE AT HOSPITAL I The scene at the emergency hospital at Ensley, shortly after o'clock, was l indeed a pitiful one. Groans were | tuition, people with bandaged heads and with arms in slings were coming and going from the hospital, while
 relatives frantically telephoned their relatives and parents of the terrible disaster The entire town of Ensley was a place of excitement, while peo- pie from other districts rushed to the scene to learn of their loved ones "I was sitting by my wife when the crash came" said Raymond Fuquay "She with others screamed to the driv- | CT to stop: but it was of no avail When the truck was struck my wife jumped and I tried to cling to her. (Here tears trickled down his face.) "l pulled her sweater off in an effort u keep her with me. but she was killed. |" l MT Fuquay is an official of the Bir-
 mingham police department. Mrs Fuquay is survived by her husband
 and one little girl. Margaret. years of age.
 'T do not know why I did not go or the picnic" said a gfier-stricken sis
 ter of So1on Walker. "His last words
 to me were: Isis, I won't have a good time unles you go.'' Walker is sur
 vived by his parents. MT. and Mrs. G 10. Walker. one sister Belle Walker and two brothers, Guy Walker an' John Walker
 | Clarence Nichols. who lived within g few blocks of the other victims, was employed by the Southern Railroad comDany. and was uonular in fhe conn