Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-26
|3DEAD, Injured
IN SUNDAY M|SHAPS
Two Boys Drowned and Third
Is Killed by Electric
' Wires
GIRL IN MOTOR ACCIDENT

Three accidental deaths. two b,
i drowning, occurred yesterday and q
Z young woman and two men are in hos
kipitals today in critical condition as
results of automobile accidents.
~ The dead
Reginald Blount, a Boy Scout. 263'
South Sixty eighth street. was drowned
in the Delaware river when n cable ferry
4, became submerged.
l James V. Mancini. fifteen years old,
433 Washington street. Camden drowned
In the Delaware river at the foot OF
jackson street. Camden.
keinhOld Baach, eight years old. 22lO
1North Marshall street. electroCuted by
4 live wire at North Maschcr street and
I Reading Railway while cxtrcating his
I" kite from telegraph wires.
The injured:
N Clara Jones, seventeen years old 3214
Potter street. skull fractured when mo-
" forcars collided at Grant avenue and
Academy road, Torresdale. Frankford
9IIospitnl.
Stanley Pynkelshi, fifty four wears
old. 2400 Duncan street. internal in
jurie,. fractures of both legs aud gen
eral cuts when automobile struck his
motorcycle at Grant avenue and Acad.
envy road. Fraukford Hospital.
Anthony Kilnowski, thirty six years
Pynkelski's motorcycle. cuts of head
and body. MAY have fractured skull
Frankford Hospital
The toll of dead or injured probably
\ would have been greater yesterday but
Y for the leap made from an automobile
by three women and two incn few soc.
onds before the machine was wrecked by
I passenger train.
The accident occurred at the ROSlyn
grade crossing. where the Willow Grove
J pike crosses the tracks of the Philadol- .
4 phia and Reading Railway About
& 10 80 o'clock last night William Free
man. Thirteenth street near Erie ave
z nue., owner of the car. was approaching
the crossing. about n mile north of
Glenside.
As the front wheels of the motorcar
touched the railroad tracks the engine
stalled At the same moment a Willow
4 Grove train approached at high speed.
/ Freeman yelled warning and threw
open the door of his car. Miss Frirda
Leslie, Of Sioux City. Ia. on the front
seat with him. lcaprd out, followed by
Leslie. Two women and a man in the
tonneau leapHd also. y few seconds
later the automobile was demolished by
the train.
The accidents Mt Grant avenue and
I Academy road. TorrcSdalc. n spur Of the
lincoln highway. occurred within n
half hour Of each other.
Miss Jones. who is not expected to
live. was riding with her father and
mother. Mr.. and Mrs. John Jones. in
an automobile driven by Frank Wilcox,
Thirty eighth street near powclton ave
nue.
At the intersection of the two roads
n Wilcoxs car was Sidewiped by another
touring car and knocked into a ditch
B, The four men occupants of the secOnt
car helped to right the overturned ma
:, ,chine, but left the scene before theil
Identity could BE- learned.
The accident in which the two motor
Z cyclists were hurt occurred a half hour
later. The two. wheeled vehicle crashed
eyinto the rear of an automobile operated
eby Harper Wright. Of Fallingtor. Pa
AS witnesses asserted. the accident was
the fault of the mOtorcyclists. Wright
-HaS. not held.
'- Riouut the Boy Scout believed tc
q kave drowned. was a member of TrooT
n No. As of this city. He had been in
I camp only a short time. He was cross
1 ing the river on a cable ferry when the
boat became submerged. Several other
messengers were aboard.
PHYSICAL Instructor Arnold who was
attached to the camp, swan after the
.boy when he went into the river. but
Young Blount was carried out of his
reach by the rapid current. As the
scout could swim there is said to be a
faint possibility that he may have
landed on a small island.
The boy kite flyer who was killed by
a live wire had been flying his kite all
yesterday afternoon. Late in the day
he began hauling in his new toy when
the string became entangled in telephone
wires near telegraph pole. The boy
climbed the pole to loosen the box kite
when his hand touched an uncovered
live wire. Seven thousand volts oi
electricity passed through his body.