Evening star., 1923-12-26
TWO DROWN IN CAR
PLUNGE INTO BASIN
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the plunge because l could not free
myself from my steering wheel fast
enough. 1t seemed hours before we
stopped sinking and somehow / re
member being either kicked or
pu she'd by my two friends. They
must have embraced each other as
they went down and | guess that is
the reason neither one could get
free.
Il want To say. however, that We
We're not speeding. In fact, / don
think we could have been doing more
than ten miles an hour at the time
we reached the edge of the embank-
, ment l had applied my brakes hard,
but they failed to stop me IN time
and once we started down that slope
toward the tidal basin nothing could
have stopped US.
Even after McLennan had swan to
the surface and fought his way in
freezing water, against strong
current, 10 the stonewall embank-
ment, he probably would have drown
ed had not r. +. FitZ-Gibbon Of 1909
cident. Speeding to the 18th street
I entrance to Potomac Park. he found
Sergt. 0. r. Reese, Private NJ. r.
Rainey and Private Roy Jenkins
about 10 change watch.
[ All three hurried to the spot. The
| large touring car was completely
| Immersed. Forming "A human ladder,
| the officers managed to reach McLen-
ried him TO Emergency Hospital. For
| Gods sake drive slow, fellows" the
shivering man whispered. Fitz-Gib-
| bon said he had seen the car shortly
| before the accident when it passed
him 'at good clip near the Lincoln
Memorial.
| Hospital physicians made a careful
! examination of McLennan and said
| they felt confident the man was per-
| feCtly sober when the accident oc-
/ Cured He has been placed under
| arrest for investigation. and viii
remain under constant guard until a
| coroneTs jury has decided IL any
person should be blamed for the
| ira gedy. Efforts to identify the sec
| ond dead man have thus far failed,
| Craven was a huckster, and it is re-
! ported that his friend was a truck
gardener from Virginia. Up 10 noon
! today. however. no person had gone
| to the morguc to make an identifica-
| tion.
| The bodies were recovered bv the
| harbor police after working Tor sew
| eral hours in the face OF cold gale.
( A strong current runs beneath the
| bridge, which is largely blamed for
/ the crash, and il was necessary 10
cut a hole in the top of the submerged
car, which had sunk altogether from
view, before graphing hooks reached
| the ueaQ men.
Auto Hits Tree.
An automobile of a rental company
| driven by James Z. Watson, thirty :
one years old. 6lo 18th street s3uon,
| of 2113 E street northwest. watson
/ and Mrs. Annie Brown, sos Maryiand
| avenue southwest. who accompanied
| him, were taken to Emergency HOS,
| pitaI. where the former was treated
| for an injury to his head, The latter
refused treatment. Watson was held
on charges of driving while under
| the influence of liquor and having no
richmond G. Duvall. 1900 4th street
northeast was driver of a motor de-
| livery vehicle that collided with the
/ car Of M. l.. Fitzhugh, 12l 18th street
southeast, parked near the owners
home, yesterday afternoon. Frank E..
1 Duval, twenty three, occupant OF the
| delivery vehicle, was thrown through
I the windshield and injured about the
| neck. He was treated at Casualty
| A collision between the automobiles
| of Clarence Beach, 3l5 18th street
| southeast, and Harry Wolf, Sal Ken
yon street, occurred at Florida ave-
nue. and 7th street northwest yester-
day afternoon. Mary Beach, fifteen
years old, was cut by pieces of the
broken windshield. She was treated
at Garfield Hospital.
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northwest, and Albert Price, 1885
Vermont avenue northwest, were oc-
cupants of automobiles that collided
at 18th and streets northwest yes
terday afternoon. Mrs. Schmidt sus-
tained an injury to her arm.
c.. b. Pierce, jr., thirty-two years
old. l725 Lanier place northwest, was
driver of an automobile that collided
with machine driven by. oscar
White, Catonsville, Md, at nth and
1 n l.. s-lt q n
/ her two-year- child were injured.
Pierce was charged by the police
\ with driving while under the fnf1u-
ence of liquor and colliding. He de-
posted s340 collateral.
| Car Hits Wagon.
A horse-drawn vehicle owned by
| Darlington Caster, colored, was hit
by street car near I'd and II streets
northeast last night and was prac-
amined at Casualty Hospital, but
physicians were unable to find he
had been injured.
| Dewey Kinslow. colored, twenty
1 west. last night was knocked down
| at. Pennsylvania avenue and 2zd
| street northwest by an automobile
driven by Richard Thomas. 1916 18th
street northwest, and slightly hurt.
He was given first aid at Emergency
! Hospital.
While crossing at Connecticut ave-
nue. and Goth street northwest last
| night Miss l.. Moore, 2117 California
street northwest. was knocked down
i by an automobile and her right arm
| fractured. She was treated at
Emergency Hospital.
| r. g. Mann, Eazt Lenox street.
Chevy Chase, Nd, narrowly escaped
death last night when his automo bile
| came in contact with Capital Trac-
| tion car near Connecticut avenue and
Harrison street northwest. The car
and automobile were both south
bound.
The automobile was almost COM
pletely wrecked and the vsstibule of