The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
GRIM REAPER CLAIMS TWO
 IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
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Age Herald reporter, stated that other than bruises about the chest and probably internal injuries. he was not suffering painfully satur- day.
 We were going at moderate rate of speed when the crash came,' said Mir. Drake. T had just finished re- marking to Slack and Turner. what remarkable control Redburn had over his car. We had negotiated the bad stretch Of Walker county road splen- didly. and could not possibly have been making over 80 miles an hour when we hit the curve. Turner and Slack had also commented on the skill with which he handled the car.
 GrappIed With Death
 NO sooner were the words out of our mouth than felt the body sway ing, and intuitively l knew the big motor Was on the verge of turning turtle. I grabbed the laprobe railing tightly with both hands and squatted to the floor of the car, so that tho sides and seat back would protect me. Turner and Slack crashed upon me as the impact came and broke my hold to the railing. but the sides and seat back protected me from fatal injuries. an- then I ., lost conscious nMs.
 Car Not Speeding
 T don't know how long lay there. but the first thing I remember was Redburn shaking me and trying to arouse me. It all seemed like a dream more than a reality. I don't blame Redburn; he asn't speeding; and I don't believe there Is man in the world who could have handled a car more skillfully. We must have struck pocket of rutty sand on the outside turn. and the rear outside wheels skidded over the edge of the embankment"
 Redburn Grfeve Over Accident MT Redburn, at the Baptist hos pital, with a bandaged broken right | shoulder and other wounds, stated that he was in pretty good physical shape. I'm not worrying about my physical condition" said the driver | Of the death car. Its my nerves they seem gone" Mir. Rudburn was grief-stricken over the fact that two men had died as result of the ac- c1dent, and these deaths, with the in-
 
 car left him prostrated.
 Wheels skidded
 We were not going fast" said MT. Redburn. T told the boys when we left Jasper near the II o'clock mark that we would loaf into Birming- ham. Fact that 1t was near the two o'clock hour when the accident oc- cured shows that We had been mak- ing no time. In rounding the curve on the dangerous embankment, I had slowed down still more. but felt tho outside rear wheel skidding, and imagine now that it had been caught in a treacherous sandy rut. Car Completely Reversed When we plunged over the 50 foot enbankment. turning completely over once and striking tree IS feet down the incline, the impact knocked me unconscious. but l was first to regain consciousness and climbed from the wreckags and sought to give the other occupants of the car first aid. Although daEed and be- wildered I did notice that the ear had been completely reversed by the skid and plunge and that the head lights were facing tho direction from whence we had come"
 Sleek Painfully Injured Walter Slack. at his room in the hospital. was propped up in bod, but l seemed to ba In moro serious con- ldition ethan any of the survivors of 1, the accident His head was encased in heavy bandages and he stated that Dr. o. L. Posey took seven stitches in the lacerated wound in the head. T don't know how long was out said Mir. Slack but the first thing remember after the crash was some one calling. Walter. Walter! It sounded faint and far off. But, after receiving first aid and medical atten- ton from the doctor. my brain began | to clear and I was conscious all the way to the hospital.
 We were going at very moderate rate of speed. think, though the car was going at a steady gait. All were rejoicing that we had passed the bumpy thoroughfare of the Walker county end. I remember that all of us in the back seat had commented on the masterful way in which MT. Redburn had handled the car on the A~AA