The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-10
3 IN HOSPITALS;
MISHAPS INJURE I

Three persons today are in hospitals
and four others are at their homes
suffering from painful injuries re-
ceived in automobile and motorcycle
accidents in Washington last night.
II. Russell MARBLE, 529 Fourteenth
! street southeast operating an auto
mobile that figured in a collision in
which two women were hurt, was
locked up at Seventh precinct police
station on charge of driving while
under the influence of Iiquor. and
with colliding. He will be tried in
Police Court today.
MARBLE and Miss Myrtle Runkles
were in the car at Jewett street and
Tunlaw road northwest when il
crashed into an automobile operated
by Clarence A. Rees, 1912 3 street
northeast In Mr.. Rees' machine were
his father. Theodore c. Rees. and Miss
Louise Carter, 1913 Fuller street
northwest. Miss Runkles became
hysterical, and was taken to George
town University Hospital Miss Car
ter suffered a sprained left ankle.
She was taken home. Both machines
were damaged.
Woman's Leg Broken.
Mrs. Alice H. Seely, Imperial
apartments 1863 Columbia road
northwest, suffered a broken leg when
knocked down by an automobile op-
Grated by William Phipps, SIS East
Capitol street, at Colorado and On.
tario roads northwest She was taken
to Georgetown University Hospital.
Harry Gray, eighteen years old,
1O21 Thirty-fourth street northwest,
suffered two broken ribs. cuts and
painful bruises when a motorcycle
he was riding crashed into a Wash
ington Railway and Electric Company
car at Wisconsin avenue and P street
northwest. He is at Georgetown Uni
Versity Hospital
Harry kerns, six years old. 1880
Wisconsin avenue northwest. was cut
and bruised when struck by an auto
mobile driven by Ramona Wilson,
twenty-nine years old, OF American
University camp. Thirty-thlrd street
and Wisconsin avenue northwest DC
cupants of the automobile took the
boy to Georgetown University Hos
pitaL.
Running in front OF an automobile
operated by Donald C aIcGilI. I223 Fl
street northeast. Richard Powell, three
years old, 1926 + street. was knocked
down and injured about the head and
right leg. Mr.. Powell took the boy to
Casualty Hospital
w. r. 4 e. Co. Car Hits Truck.
Joseph Peterson, colored, thirty
seven years old. 1876 U street north
west, was injured when an auto-truck.
operated by William Shears 600 !
Four-and-a-half street southwest on |
which he was riding. was struck by
a Washington Railway and Electric |
car. He is at Emergency
Hospital
Edward D. Spaulding, 1877 Thirty
fourth street northwest. was shaken !
up and a motorcycle he was riding |
was damaged by an automobile opera
ted by a woman at Sixth and NJ streets |
The woman said she lived
at 1104 L street northeast There is
no such address.
The automobile of A C. Bailey, 1919
Fifth street northwest, was damaged
when II coliided with a motor car
operated by John Harris, OF Halls Hill,
Va, at Twelfth and K streets north
west
Two automobiles were damaged in a
triple collision in Fifteenth street, be-
tween D and z streets northwest A
motor car owned by the L p. Haw
Company, "a Hanover street north
west, crashed into the automobile of
P. NJ walker, 22s p street northwest.
Walkers machine skidded into the au-
OF W. r. Fitzpatrick. OF
Heights, Nd Walkers
Ind kilpatrick's cars were damaged.