The Washington herald., 1912-02-06
COLD WAVE BOOKED
FOR SEVERAL DAYS
Icy Sidewalks and Slippery Streets
Responsible for Many
Accidents.

Washington will remain for several
days in the grasp Of the cold wave which
so suddenly gripped the Nations Capital
This statement was made by the weather
wizard last night. 1t will remain cold
not exceptionally cold-but. in the words
of that meteorological sharp, ''moder-
ately cold" The mercury will go down
to II, and possibly 10 degrees above zero
to-day. The weather Will be fair. ac-
eording TO the prediction.
Washington is not the only city ex-
periencing moderately cold" weather.
The entire country is shivering under
Northwest IL Is moderately cold, but the
temperatures are not nearly so low as
during the month of January. The entire
South is feeling the effects of the cold
wave. The frost Is eating into the ground
as far South as Florida
Several persons were injured by slip
ping and falling on the ice and several
accidents due to the inability OF drivers
to control their teams were added yes
terday to the list, which has been in
creasing daily since the first cold wave
of this series struck the Capital.
Howard Williams, seventeen years old,
Of IS. : street northwest, slipped in
front of li1I New York avenue north
west and sprained his right ankle. At
Emergency Hospital physicians say the
youth probably viii not be able TO walk
for several weeks.
Special Policeman Bert Taylor. forty
years old, who lives at Twelfth street
and Mount Clivet road northeast. and
does duty on the wharf OF the Mount
Vernon steamer, fell on the ice and cut
and bruised himself so seriously that il
was necessary to remove him 20 Emer-
gency Hospital in the Fourth precinct
patrol wagon.
Suffering from cuts and bruises and
ored, sixty years old, was found lying
In the White-House grounds. where he
had fallen on the ice, and removed to
Emergency Hospital in the Third pre-
cinct patrol wagon.
Milton Braxton, coiored, forty years old
OF 200 street southwest, received prob
ably fatal injuries when a car-eollided
with a team he was driving at Eleventh
street and Massachusetts, avenue north
east shortly before 2 o'clock in the after
noon. Paxton was removed to Casualty
Hospital, and had not regained conscious
ness at a late hour at night. He is en-
ployed by Miller Brothers, and was driv-
ing one OF their brick wagons.
Caught between a coal chute and a
wagon m the coal yard Of ]. Maury Dove
at First and NJ streets northeast. Otto
30 Twenty-fourth treet northwest, was
crushed and seriously injured shortly
after o'clock in the afternoon. Suffer
ing from broken rib and ether in
ternaI injuries, he was removed TO Cas-
ualty Hospital.
A coal wagon, owned by Frank L.
Davis, OF 49j X street southwest, and
driven by Walter Tate, OF 6lS X street
southwest, oolliGed with a garbage wagon
driven by John Fletcher, colored, forty
years old. OF 112S Cushing place south
east, in Pennsylvania avenue, between
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets
northwest, shortly after l O'Clock in
the afternoon. Although both vehicles
were damaged, the drivers escaped in
jury.
Passengers on Capital Traction car
were delayed for work early In the morn
Ing when the car -collided with a wagon
driven by Gsorge jackson. colored. OF
Grant road, in Connecticut avenue near
Pierce Mil road northwest. The horses
were hurt, and though jackson was cut
and bruised, he refused TO go to hos
pital.