The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-09
]. E. Nail Is Recovering--He Escaped From the Accident With a Broken Wrist and Bruises

James E. Nail, 37, 1915 Fifteenth avenue, south, sole survivor of a party of four men in an automo- bile which collided with a South Highlands street car at Thirteenth avenue and Twentieth street, south, Sunday night about 11.25 o'clock, will be able to be. removed to his rooms in two or three days, accord ing to Dr. c. P. Board, attending physician. MT. Nail sustained severe bruises about the body and a frac- ture of the left arm just above the wrist.
 MT. Nail escaped death in a man ner little short of miraculous. He was on the front seat of the car with w.. W. Stine, 36, general agent of the Gulf Coast Lines, who was driving. When the crash came, he was hurled from the automobile to a point some 30 feet away. Mir. Stine was instantly killed
 Died Going to Hospital Andrew Zwald, 31, 1921 Huntsville avenue, paint salesman, died on the way to the hospital after the acci- dent. Death was caused by loss of blood A steel part of the car was thrust into his side, cutting several veins and arteries. MT. Zwald was sitting on the back seat of the car.
 J. M. Hughes, 32, Ridgely apart ments, secretary treasurer of the Me- Clary- -Jemison company, died on the operating table at St. vincents hos pital at 2:10 o'clock yesterday morn ing. His skull was crushed in on the left side.
 The accident occurred when the automobile in which the party was returning from Edgewood park crashed into street car while it was standing still at Thirteenth avenue, south and Twentieth street. The en- tire left half of the street cars front vestibule was torn away. The auto was hurled to the left and swung around in the direction from which it had come, Twentieth street hill. The body was stripped from the chassis from the windshield back. Both rear wheels were reduced to scrap.
 Street Car People Unhurt
 The motorman and conductor and one or two passengers on the street t. ra 721 Second avenue, was motorman, and w. D. Tice, 926 First avneue, was the conductor.
 Mir. Nail had great confidence in the driving ability of MT. stine, whom he regarded as a careful driver. They lived together at 1915 Fifteenth Eavenue, south.
 Funeral arrangements for the three dead men are in charge of Shaw ana Johns, undertakers, where the bodies are being held pending burial. The body of Hughes was sent last night to Middleton, Pa, his old home. All his relatives live in Pennsylvania. He had been a resident of Birmingham for the last 10 years.
 ZwaId Wns an Aviator
 Mir Zwald, who was paint sales man, lived with his mother. Mrs. John HWalu, l51l iuntsNiiie io"u, po Most of his life had been spent Tn Birmingham. He was born August s' 1890, at South pittsburg, Tenn. He lis survived also by five brothers. John and Charles, at home; Fred of Pittsburg; will of Detroit; Chris of Amory, Miss, and two sisters, Mfs- Ed Herzog of Birmingham, and Mrs. Lena Morris of Long Island. Zwaid enlisted in the aviation corps early in the war and saw extensive servlce overseas as mechanician. The body is being held pending arrival of the brothers in the north
 MT. Stine has been in Birmingham for several years. He was divorced from his wife. Mrs. Lurline Stine' some few years ago. Mrs. Stine IS understood to be seriously i'll In Chattanooga at the present time.