Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-08
2HURT
IN AUTO M|SHAPS
Six Victims in Sunday Acct
dents--kensington Child '
Killed by Machine
THREE MEN LOSE LIVES

The death of another auto victim in
local hospital early today brought the
total of fatalities from Yesterdays
motor accidents in and near this city
to four.
Two men we're injured. one being
struck by an automobile that was
wrecked later in an accident in which
one of it's two occupants was hurt
The man who died today was struck
! by an auto last night on the Roosevelt
boulevard Earlier in the evening q
six year old girl was killed at Kensing
ton avenue and Monmouth street Two
men were killed late in the afternoon
when their car was struck by trolley
car at Lewis crossing, near Swarth-
more, Delaware county,
The dead were:
G. Robert Bean, twenty seven years
old, 2213, West Cumberland street.
Sarah Mindick, six years old, 2952
| kensington avenue.
Y Nathan j.. Stewart, an engineer at
the Franklin Paper Mills, on Crum
creek, where he lived.
David Logue, paper maker at the
same mills, who lived near Stewart.
Those injured are:
Charles Donahue, thirty years old,
1850 Germantown avenue, both hey
broken and scalp cut st. Mary Hos
pital; struck by automobile.
| Frank Kenna, an occupant of the
car, serious injuries to the body RooSe =
| Anl Tn,
firm the Identification, which was mad
from papers in his pocket.
Bean died at 10 o'clock this morn
ing in st. Lukes Hospital from frac-
ture of the skull.
He was struck and knocked down at
1915 o'clock last night while crossing
to the south side of the Northeast
Boulevard, west of Ninth street.
Myer I,andow, 310S West Montgom-
ery avenue, driver of the machine, which
was proceeding east Oh the boulevard,
took the man to the hospital. lie then
surrendered to the police of the Ger
mantown and Lycoming avenues sta Z
ton, He will be arraigncd before
j Magistrate Wrigley today.
Girl Runs in Front of Car
Sara Mindick was killed about 10
| X.
automobile driven by James f. Sheeron
twenty one years old, of Narberth, wit
nesses say.
The street is rather dark ut this point
the shadow of the elevated structure
making the light uncertain. Sheerou
said he did not see the girl until she
= was directly in front of his machine
He applied the brakes but the caI
skid6ed and struck the girl.
He stopped the machine. He ant
Charles Falling. of Lansdowne. will
placed the girl in the automobile. The!
!. made a quick run to the Episcopal Hos
pital, but the girl was dead
Sheeron gave himself UP to the polio,
, of the Front and Westmoreland streets
, station. He will have hearing today
Palling was not arrested.
The accident at Lewis crossing oc
Cured while the two men were return
ing home to Crum Creek. Stewar
Nvas driving. Logue was the only pas
senger.
The crossing is regarded as yer!
dangerous one. The approach of tn
trolley cars is hidden from the road
way because the rails are laid througl
deep cut at this point.
The automobile was directly on tn
> tracks when struck by a trolley ca
/, bound for Media. The car was goin
= full speed and the motorman had III
chance to stop it between the time h
saw the machine and the collision, h
, said.
The automobile was wrecked. Bot
men were hurled from the machine fa
v ahead and high up on the embankmen
! by the impact. The trolley car wa
. stopped and passengers and crew RAJ
: to the two men, Both were dead.
The bodies were taken to the mOrgu
at Media. Coroner Drewes, of Della
ware county, will make an investiga
tion of the accident today.
Rider Runs Away
Donahue was struck at Thompso
/ and Second streets while crossing. Th
: automobile was running fast at tn
, time and the driver apparently made N
! effort to stop.
= The machine continued its wild driv
/. down Second street to Callowhill, wher
it struck a pole and was wrecked. Tw
men were in it. One was thrown full
e twenty feet He landed near a patrol
man, but before the latter could stoo
n to help him, the man arose and ra
4 away.
n Tho other man was found under tn
= = wrecked machine. From a receir
Il | IOun0 III HIS pUChtL hS Wdo q
u Frank Kenna. He refused to confirl
Z the identification when he recovere
Il consciousness in the hospital. Befoi
Magistrate Yates, however, he admittc
his identity and was held without ba
to await the results of Donahue's in
!. juries. He lives on Montrose stree
70 near Broad.
:; Kenna was taken to the Rooseve
q Hospital in a patrol. His condition
y critical. ponahue was taken to S
a Mary's Hospital in mail truck. II
5 condition also is as critical.
:, The police do not know wheth,
Knnna or his Comma ninn drove IL