Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-19
FOUR KILLED IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
AT CROSSING

Six automobile accidents in and
near Atlanta Tuesday afternoon and
Wednesday morning netted a toll of
five deaths and injuries to five per-
sons, one of whom is in a critical
condition.
The dead are:
MIR. and Mrs. w. r. Singleton, of
1913 Logan street, and two of their
children, William, aged three, and
Pearl, aged seventeen months, and
Mrs. Fannie e. Young, of J52 East
Pine street.
The injured are:
Miss Mile Reynolds. of Conley,
Ga; H. w. Thompson. of Alpharetta,
Ca; Luther Alexander. Of Alpharet-
ia; Roger Wing, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Newton C. Wing, 1907 East North
avenue; Audrey Conner, the FIVE
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. r. T..
Conner, of 423 Central avenue, and
V. G. Argo, of 1913 Nelson street,
The four members of the Single
ton family were instantly killed
when their new Ford car was struck
by Georgia railroad switch engine
at 1910 o'clock Wednesday morning
at the Glenwood avenue crossing of
the Atlanta-and West Point belt line
tracks back of the city stockade.
Mrs. Young was killed at the cor
ner of North avenue and North
Moreland avenue shortly before
o'clock Wednesday morning, when
the automobile in which she was
riding with her brother, John G..
Rasbury, collided with a car driven
by Newton C Wing, of 1907 East
North avenue. She was hurled to
the pavement, sustaining a fractur-
ed skull which caused her death be-
fore she could be removed to a hos
pital.
Mr.. Wing and his little son, Roger
were thrown from their car, the boy
being cut and bruised, while Mr.
Rasbury escaped unhurt.
The third automobile accident
Wednesday morning occurred IN
front of the home of Mr.. md Mrs
r. T. Conner. 423 Central avenue
Audrey, their five-year-old son, was
struck by an automobile driven by
o. L. Shrimp superintendent of con-
struction of the city schools. Tho
boy was removed to the Grady hos
pital, suffering from several cuts
and bruises and was later taken
home.
V. T. Argo was injured while
standing on the curb at the corner
of Peters street and Madison avenue.
His left arm was fractured when he
was struck by =, big truck belonging
to the Cudahy Packing company, and
driven by a negro.
Of the two accidents Tuesday af
ternoon, one occurred at Dead Mans
Curve" on Peachtree road, near
BrookWood when a car driven by
Luther Alexander, of Alpharetta, Ga,
crashed into a telephone pole. H.
w. Thompson, also of Alpharetta,
sustained injuries which are expect
ed to prove fatal, while Mr.. Alex
ander suffered a broken arm. Four
other occupants of the car were bad
ly shaken up, but left the scene of
the accident without giving their
names.
Miss Reynolds was badly cut and
bruised when the automobile in
which she was riding with her broth
ers, Horace and T. L. Reynolds, on
the Jonesboro road Tuesday after
noon, was run into by a car driven
by H. z. Gasslin, of the Sanitary
Market. Atlanta. Gasslin's machine
plunged over an embankment after
the crash, but he and his companion,
J. c. Hallman, escaped without in
jury. Both men are being held by
the police charged with being drunk,
while Gasslin is held under the ad
ditional charge of operating an au-
tomobile while in an intoxicated con-
dition.