The Washington times., 1920-10-03
CARSTR|KES L.
CHURCHC0ERS
Passengers in Ford Machine
Crash Near Vienna, Va.
Woman will Die.
BABY HAS STRANGE ESCAPE
Hurled From Auto, Father Finds
1t Lying by Tracks,
Still Sleeping.

One woman is dying, five persons
are badly injured, and five others
narrowly escaped death at Vienna,
Va. shortly after 9 o'clock last night
when a car of the Washington and
Old Dominion Railway Company
crashed into a Ford automobile con-
tanning eleven persons returning to
their home from church.
The names of the injured follow:
LIST OF INJURED.
Mrs. Lee, East Falls Church, Va.
Suffering with coacussiOn OF the
brain and expected to die.
Mrs.. Bert l.. snyder. Lewinsvflie,
Va. Right shoulder bone fractured.
Charlie Snyder. seventeen years
old, cuts and bruises.
Neat Snyder, thirteen years old;
cuts and bruises.
Wayne snyder, Ave years oldj
right leg broken.
Mrs. Lees daughter suffered cuts
and bruises, but up to . late hour
today her nrst name or age could
not be learned.
All of the injured were rushed TO
the Washington Sanitarium in Tako-
ma Park.
Mrs. Snyder's husband, Bert l.. Sny-
der, and three other children. Glenn,
fifteen years old: Martha, ten years
old, and Narcissa Belle. one and a
half months old. were in the party
but were uninjured.
The baby, at the time Of the accI-
dent. was in the arms Of her mother.
according to members Of the party.
when the crash came, the baby wns
nf he rsuChfnp
the tracks. when found the child
wns lying peacefully on the ground.
never having uttered n cry.
Members of the party describe tn cir
escape from death as miraculous. The
Ford machine was demolished.
With Mr.. Snyder driving, the party
went to the Adventist Church in
Vienna early in the evening. Services
were over about $50 o'clock and the
party started for their home in
Lewinsville.
I'VE came TO the track and Ilcould
hear no sound of a car, so / started
over" Mr.. Snyder told one of the
hospital attendants last night. But
we had hardly reached the track
when car came along at what
seemed mile-a minute speed.
ALL THROWN OUT.
THE car struck our machine. All
OF us were thrown out. | searched ID
around and found Mrs. Lee. my wife
and two OF my boys were uncon-
scious. Our little baby, Narcissabelle,
found lying near the track
"She was not hurt one bit. When
picked her up she woke and smiled
at me. 1t is miraculous how we es-
capped instant death"
The street car was going at such a
speed that it was impossible to stop
1t until it had gone 200 feet past
the accident. The injured were put In
two passing automobiles and rushed
to the hospital in Takoma.
Mrs. Lee was the only person Sc
riously injured. Physicians at the
hospital declare she will not live.
Blame for the accident is put on
the railway company by Mr.. Snyder
according to one of the hospital Off.
cials. He said:
Mr.. Snyder told me an official OF
the company was on the front OF the
car at the time of the accident. Talk.
ing with this man later Mr.. Snyder
said: "'It was clearly the company
fault. The car was travelling at zoo
great a speed"
Mr.. Snyder said the company Of
ficial agreed with him that IL was the
fault OF the company.
Mr.. Snyder is about forty-four years
old and his wife forty. They have
been making the trip to the church
I'm Vienna every Saturday night