Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-11
CAR STRIKES AUTO;
TWO FATALLY HURT
Recovery of Miss Mary Shipp-
lett and w. H. Tyree Ex-
tremely Doubtful.
AUTOMOBILE is DEMOL LIsHED
Trolley Crashes Into Motor Car
at Lombardy and Broad
Streets.

as the result of disastrous col.
iision between q Rroad and M,iu stree,
car ana an automobile at Broad anu
Lombardy Streets last night a., o:sr
O'Clock. w. II. Tyree. a painter. about
thirty-fve years old Of 1917 Floy.I
Avenue. and Miss Mary ID. Shipnlett.
t"enty-cight years old. OF 2o19 Fioyu
Avenue. arc in the Grace Hospital In
a critical and extremely grave con,,i
tioa. Physicians in attendance early.
this morning were doubtful of Their
recovery
Immediately upor the occurrence or
the accident. tho emergency call for
medical assistance was sounded ann
the house physician from the stuart
Circle Hospital rushed to the scene OF
the collision. In q few minutes Dr.
O'Brien, IN charge of tho city arr,hu-
lance, arrived. After emergency treat
ment was applied, Tyrcc was hurric.I
to the Grace Hospital in the city am
bulancc and Miss Shipplctt was car
ricd TO the Same institution in a prI-
vate ambulance
BOTH VICTIMS SUFFER
BROKEN BONES AND NURSES
y report from the Grace Hospital n.
midnight last night declared that the
condition OF Tyree was grave and tnat
it was very doubtful that he would
live through tho night. Tho report
further stated that the injuries Of Mis-.
Shipplett were practically the same
rs those of Tyrec and that if any
thing. her condition was moro serious
than that OF Tyrce. Eoth Tyrcc and
Miss Shpplett suffered fractured
skull, internal injuries. body fractures
and cuts and bruises IrI over tho body.
The hospital report said it was diff
ficult TO give n detailed account Of the
extent Of the injuries rs there was
hardly place on their bodies that
was not either bruised. cut or broken.
{. n. ;irooks. OF 1925 West Main
Street, motorman of tic street car,
was placed under arrest en- the charge
of carelcssly and recklessly running a
street car, pending ;tse possible re-.
covcry of the victims He was taken
TO the Second Police Statiun and bniicd
by Magistrate j. y. Purdic in the sum
OF $500 for his appcarar &C in Police
Court next TucIday.
BLAME FOR ACCIDENT
NOT DETERMINED AS YET
Although the street ear was only
slightly damaged as a result OF the
collision. the automobile in which
Tyrec and Miss Shipplett were riding
was wrecked beyond hope OF repair.
While there were several cyc-witnesses.
the reports as TO the cause OF the &C
cident arc meager and conflicting. The
street car was running cast on Broad
Street at a rather rapid rate of speed.
The automobile driven by Tyrce was
going west on Broad Street. From
what could be learned Tyree attempted
to turn the automobile south into LON
hardy Street. and the street car plowed
hcaG-on into the side of the machine.
overturnins and wrecking the motor
car.
The blame for the accident was not
determined last night. This was the
second serious and probably fatal ac-
cidcnt in the city in TWO nights. AS
the result OF Main Street car split
ting the switch at Harrison and Main
streets. Tuesday night Frank Wilkin-
son. cish; Years old, OF 1902 West
Cary Street. was Killed almost Instantly
and b. l.. Locks. twenty-five years old.
was badly injured.
CORNER HAS BEEN SCENE
OF MANY HAD ACCIDENTS
Within 3 few minutes after the ac-