Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-12
30 INJURED IN
SUNDAY SERIES
OF ACCIDENTS
More Than Score Are Hurt
When Street Car COllides
With Train,
AMBULANCE IS STRUCK

More than thirty persons were injured
in accidents Of various kinds in Indiana
polls within the last thirty-six hours, the
list Of mishaps running the gamut from
q collision between a train and a street
car to a fire truck wreck and the demoli-
ton OF an ambulance which was carrying
several patients to the Methodist hos
pital.
Early last night a west-bound street
car was struck by a Big Four freight
train at West Washington street and the
Betl Railroad as the result Of a mis-
understanding Of signals between the
street car conductor and the fiagman. More
than twenty persons were injured and
badly shaken up. Among the IGore Sc
rious injured were.
Charles Nees, 1850 North New Jersey
street Severe cuts and bruises about
the head.
Mrs. E. Schooley, 20 North Sheffield
avenue. Bruised about the head.
Clarence Wallace, who lives at the end
Of the West Washington street car line.
Wrist crushed.
Mrs. Robert Davis, IS North Sheffield.
Legs bruised.
Hiram Graham, conductor Of street car.
Left wrist cut.
SWITCHING TRAIN
BACKS AGAINST CAR.
At the time OF the accident the freight
train was backing and the last freight
car caught the street car amidships, threw
It over on its side and tore off the rear
trucks.
-Four firemen were injured and horse
so seriously hurt that il was necessary
to shoot it, when two fire trucks which
were answering an alarm collided at New
York street and Senate avenue late Sat
urday afternoon. Those injured were:
Charles Matthews, 913 Indiana avenue,
bruised and face cut.
George Freels, 800 Douglas street, back
bruised and face cut.
Verne Hudson, Olga Apartments, Illi-
nois and Fifteenth streets.
Nicke Wernes, 1915 Jones street.
Truck No. was going west in New
York street when it coIlided with Truck
No. IS, which was headed north. The
trucks skidded for about twenty feet,
Knocked down horse belonging to Al
bert Brown, colored, 321 West Four
tenth street.
STREET CAR HITS
CROWDED AMBULANCE.
An ambulance which was carrying sew
eraI patients to the Methodist Hospital,
was struck Saturday night by a Central
avenue street car at Alabama and Mich
igan streets. Those in the ambulance
were DR.. r. E. De Weese and DR.. R. z.
Wise, both of Hartford City; DR.. C. D.
Morton Of Greenfield; A. E. Filming,
Hartford City, undertaken and owner of
the ambulance; Clarence Sutton and
Arliss Hennick. deputy sheriffs.
Dr. Wise had been declared insane by
q Justice of the peace at Hartford City
following his attempt to kill himself.
avenue and her daughter, Miss Josephine
Dewey. were severely injured when an au-
tOmohile in which they were riding was
struck and overturned by a machine driven
by Ernest Havin of Coatesville at River
side Drive and Thirtieth street. Mrs.
Dewey was cut about the face and head
and her daughter suffered bruises about
the back and shoulders and possible in
ternal injuries
MOToRIsT HELD
ON LIQUOR CHARGE.
George Fledmeyer, 131 South Keystone
avenue. was arrested on q charge Of OPP
Grating an automobile while under the
influence Of liquor when q car he was
driving struck Miss Clara Shaw, 1913
North Tacoma avenue, ar Massachusetts
avenue and New York street. She was
knocked down and injured about the legs.
A bottle Of white mule" was found in
the machine, police assert.
Mrs. Roy Roger, 2021 North La Sale
street, and her son, Everett, were injured
when their automobile skidded and turned
over at Brookside avenue and Roseline
street
After driving his automobile against
another machine driven by Leonard Ed
ridge, Gladstone Apartments, at Vermont
and Meridian streets, George Moss, High
land Apartments was errested and
charged with driving an automobile
while under the influence of liquor. His
brothers, Riley and John Moss, who were
E1th him we're arrssted for drunksnness