Evening star., 1922-08-07
5 SUNDAY M|SHAPS
HURT IS PERSONS
Pedestrian FeIIed by Ambu-
lance in Race to "Beat"
StOrk.

Sixteen persons were injured yes
| terday in eight accidents, which in
volved Casualty Hospital ambulance,
seven automobiles, two motor trucks
one riding horse, two horse drawn
| buggies and two motor cycles.
/ James Ingalls,, sxty-fve years old
employe of the Capital Traction Com
pany, one of the three critically in
jured among the seventeen, was
| struck by the ambulance at lst and
3 streets southwest and dragged
distance Of twenty-five feet.
| While physicians believed last night
| ingalls, was mortally injured they
they stated this morning he was rest
| ing easily and had a good chance to
| recover. ingalls, resides at 1879 "
| Wisconsin avenue northwest
| Guy Freeman, colored, nineteen
years old. driver of the ambulance.
which was bearing Mary Byers, col
| ored. 222i Georgia avenue. TO the
! Washington Asylum Hospital in an
! effort TO beat the "stork," was ar
rested at Casualty Hospital by Police
man r. A. Johnson and is held on an
assault charge.
/ siren Loudly Sounded.
| Police declare the ambulance driver
| while passing through the Capitol
grounds loudly sounded the siren.
| Freeman told the police he did not
see ingalls, until he was almost upon
! him.
! The other two seriously injured are
! f. Slaughter, colored, thirty-eight
! years old, of 44O3 Jay street north
| east, and Kelly Bryan, colored, of 243
| 10th street southeast
| Slaughter was thrown from horse
/ Banning T.
| fered a fractured skull. He was
| taken to Casualty Hospital in a pass
| ing automobile and treated by DR.. ].
McHaley.
Kelly Bryan sustained a broken
kneecap and several decorations of the
side when a motor cycle and sidecar
| he was operating collided with
| truck. Richard Green, colored, S12
I'd street southeast, who was riding
| in the sidecar, was also injured. but
| not seriously. The ice cream truck
which was driven by Louis J. Wolf,
/ 22l5 | street northwest, completely
demolished the motor cycle.
Autos Crash, Six Injured.
Six were injured early yesterday
evening when two automobiles col
lided On Pennsylvania avenue at 18th
street southeast. Those hurt are
Elmer Welsh of Brentwood. Md
driver. injured abou, the legs; Miss
old. of Cottage City, Md. injured
about the legs: Mrs. Mary Knott. six
ty-two years old, of Charles coutny.
Md, fractured shoulder; Helen Welsh.
nine years old. injured about the
head and arms, and Mrs Joseph E
Welsh, injured about the body and
head. and Mrs. Levinette Mckeever,
924 I'D street.
The car, bearing five of the six per-
sons hurt. was driven by Welsh, while
! the other was driven, the police say.
by Mrs. Mckeever, who was under
instruction by her husband, Francis
Mckeever.
Three were injured while riding in
a horsedrawn wagon that collided
with an automobile on Benning road.
The injured are Michael Mattera,
forty years old, BOIL massachusetts,
avenue northeast, driver of the team;
Emilio Mattera, twenty-eight years
old. Capitol Heights, Nd, and Mrs.
Rose Mattera, twenty-four years old.
Al! were treated at Casualty Hos
pital. The horse escaped injury but
the wagon was demolished.
Thrown From Motor Cycle.
Thrown from his motorcycle when
sideswiped by a large truck which
he was chasing at 5th and Franklin
streets northwest last evening, Motor
cycle Policeman Frank Shainey, at
tached to the second precinct station,
/ was badly injured about the face
and body. He was treated at the
Emergency Hospital.
Colliding with an automobile which
! was parked in front of 1926 H street
/ northeast, Christian H Weinicke,
| thirty-two years old. 1867 street
F; northeast, was slightly injured yes
| terday afternoon. He was treated at
Casualty Hospital and later arrested
! and charged with collidinS. The
| parked car belonged to Charles Kap-
! len and was only slightly damaged.
| While entering his automobile at
| the foot of p street entrance of
f. the Washington barracks yesterday
afternoon, Fenton Bryan, sixteen
years old. 1907 C street southwest
| was caught between his own auto
mobile and one passing and sustained
an injured shoulder. He was re-
moved to Emergency Hospital and