M. J. Lehman Hurt Internally

M.J. LEHMAN HURT INTERNALLY

In the Motor Car Smash-Up Yesterday

MERRILL'S STATEMENT

Says That No Accident Like it Ever Occurred Before on a Railroad

Jackson, Mich., February 25. - The accident which happened on the Hawks & Angus line near this city yesterday was a fortunate one in that nobody was killed, although all the passengers were more or less injured.

M. J. Lehman, of Ann Arbor, received internal injuries, but is not in a dangerous condition. The motorman claims that the breaks didn't work, but this is denied by Supt. Merrill, of the Hawks-AngusIine, who asserts that brakes are so constructed that they never fail.

It has been hinted before that cars have been run around curves at unsafe rates of speed, and that races take between the Hawks-Angus and Boland lines between Jackson and Michigan Center.

General Manager Merrill denied that the cars on his line have raced.

"It is true," he said, "that the curve where the car went off is at the foot of a long hill, and that in a fog the rails were slippery. That the brakes worked there is no doubt, however, as I found them set on the trucks, which did not leave the rack. The king bolts holding the body of the car to the trucks did not break, but the bolsters pulled off the trucks. I don't believe there has ever before been an accident like it either on a steam or an electric road."