The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-05
ONE FATALLY HURT
 AND SCORE INJURED
 IN TRUCK ACCIDENT
Gasoline Ignites and Acci- dent Victims in Danger of Burning Before Flames
 Distinguished

AnniSton, October 4.-(SpeciaI)
 Quick work on the part of Truck Driver
 Virgil Poss prevented the roasting to death of 15 or 20 men early Saturday morning at Four Mile church, between Camp Mcclellan and Jacksonville, when a big government truck transporting about 50 laborers from Jacksonville to the cantonment struck a cement culvert and turned over at that point, probably fatally injuring Edwin Leyden and J. R. Cain and seriously injuring more than a dozen other passengers.
 The passengers on the two trucks made the statements Saturday that Glass had passed Poss on the trip from Jacksonville two or three times, and when the trucks reached the church he attempted to pass the other truck on the wrong side of the road with the result that the right front wheel of the Glass truck struck the cement bridge, turned side somersault and plunged into the bank, thinning all the men who were not thrown clear of the heavy machine beneath the truck.
 Gasoline from the engine ignited within a minute, and but for the quick work of Driver Poss, who turned his extinguisher on the blaze, the men pinioned beneath the machine would probably have been burned to death. The passengers on the second truck crowded around the machine and lifted it clear and held it up while the oth- CTS crawled beneath the body of the machine and pulled the injured men into the road.
 Groans and cries of pain from those the car caused the unin- jured workers to work like firemen to remove their injured friends from their perilous position.
 AMBULANCE SENT
 Telephone messages sent into head quarters at Camp Mcclellan sent trucks and ambulances to the scene as fast as the machines could be loaded and the injured members of the crew were rushed to the base hospital. distress call for doctors and nurses from An niston and Jacksonville was sent out, and within few minutes the base hos pital corridors and receiving stations were crowded with people who had vol to aid those who had been hurt in the accident. Jacksonville women to the number of dozen were first on the scene of the accident and the ambulances to the base hospital, where first aid was rendered to the injured men.
 Edwin Leyden was pinioned beneath the truck, and it is believed that his back is broken. J. R. Gains legs were broken above the knees; s. K. Shows arm was broken and he was probably injured; William Gidley's back and side was crushed; Dean Me- Curry was seriously mashed by the truck Fred Champion, W. D. Aderhold, A. Goggins, Jim Wilkerson, Henry Mur- ry, Daniel Palmore and V. x. Porter were the most seriously injured of the entire party, and the hurried examina lions made just after the accident did not disclose the exact extent of their injuries.
 J. w Reed Jeff Walker, A. B. Ford, S T. Nunnally, Ed Logan, l.. w. Snide, Tom White, D. D. Walker, John Pear son and several others who were on the truck were slightly cut and bruised, 1 put were able to be returned to their homes after examinations had been made by the base hospital physicians l
 Several Anniston physicians and 1 nurses responded to the hurry call sent l n from the base hospital.
 Maj. John Griffith and Capt. M. M. | 1oodwyn were immediately on the job 1 If providing every attention for the | injured laborers, and pending a thor ugh investigation into the wreck, | Driver Poss was being held under ar est and Driver Glass under guard, he latter being sent to his home at Weaver station after his injured arm md shoulder had been attended in the ity.
 ACCOUNTS EXAGGERATED
 Reports of the accident reaching the orlv Ca rni iner