Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-17
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Two Children Are Fatally Hurt
When Run Over-Girl
Killed in Auto
AR RESTS ARE MAD E

Two children. a three r-oId Glrl
End boy Of the same age, are dead
today as the result of street accldentS'
Six other persons are injured several
of them seriously.
The dead are: Alice Wilson. three
years old. of 24OS North Douglas street
run over by a moving van; Giuseppe
Gro, three years old, of 1870 South
Fairhill street, crushed by a trolley
car. and Irene Young, nineteen years
old of lag Cedar avenue, Oak Lynne,
N I killed in an overturned auto
mobile.
The Gro child was playing in the
street with other children and. "hlle
trying to ellde them. ran IN front OF
n trolley car at Sixth street and wash
ington avenue. His skull was fractured.
He died on the way to Mt Sinai Hos
pital.
An infuriatcd crowd mObbed the car,
following the accident. WINDOWS were
broken and curtains torn in an effort
to pot ot the crew. Passengers were
in terror until George Hemmeke. dis
trict detective from the Seventh and
Corrcntcr streets police station. as
sumcd control of the situation. Hem
mpkc ordered Claude Hopkins, 10
wast Cumberland street. the motorman.
70 run the car at full speed until Reed
street, three blocks further on. was
rcnchcd and the mob limits passed.
Ionkins was arrctsed and taken to
CITY Hall. Hcmmeke held the con
ductor, George NJ Babe. East Pacihc
street. as witness.
Dead Childs Sister Hurt
The little Wilson girl and two other
children ran in front of moving van
ot Thirty third street near York Allce
was instantly killed. Her sister. Mar.
parct eleven years old. was knocked
down. Her skull was fractured. She
is ot fine Woman's Homeopathic Hos
nitnI The third child escaped without
injury.
The moving van was driven by Ed
gar Wicker. of 244 North Sixty sixth
street. son of the owner. He was ar
rested and will he given a hearing to-
day before Magistrate Grelis.
Miss Young was upset in an auto
mobile driven by her brother, Herbert,
at Broad lane near Mercer street. Glou-
cpstpr, She was pinned under the ma
chine. and was so badly injured that
she died while on the way to Cooper
Hospital Camden. She was employed
at the Wclsbach plant. Gloucester,
Man Hurt. Auto Driver FleeS
Miss Esther Hef1er. of 31J Ritner
street. was knocked down by truck
at Twelfth and Arch streets. She was
taken to Jefferson Hospital. William
:. Eastlack. of Camden, driver of the
truck is being held under $500 bail
to await the result of the girls in
juries.
James Fitzpatrick, of Gl7 North
Sixteenth street. was struck by mo-
tortruck at Sixteenth and Fairmount
avenue. His skull was fractured. The
truck was driven by James FitzmorriS.
10th of George Russell's legs were
broken when motortruck rau him
down at Broad and Clearfield streets
last night. The truck did not stop
after the accident Russell is at St.
Joseph's Hospital. He lives at $40
North Twelfth street
Howard Dumbaugh and Elliott Dunn
baugh. brothers. of 1896 Parksidc ave
nue., were injured when the motorcycle
they were riding in Fairmount Park
an into an automobile. Howard DUN
baugh's, skull was fractured. His
brother was cut and bruised. Both are
in the West Philadelphia Homeopathic
Hospital Herman FeldmaR. of 1925
North Fifty first street. driver of the
automobile, was arrested and will be
! pivpn hparinu today