The Washington times., 1923-10-24
ACCIDENT IS
IN STORM
KILL TWO
Ten Others Are Injured IN TRAIT
fic Undergraduates
Crashes Reported.

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Police reports indicate that at
midnight last night Washington
emerged from one Of the most
dis strous Neutrality-suspicious.
periods ever known in regard to
traffic mishaps.
A tabulation showsp
Two killed;
Ten injured, and nineteen acct
dents in which many automobilists
narrowly escaped serious injury.
Die Of Fractured skulls.
The dead are:
Miss Florence Palmer, twenty
seven, proprietfess Of rooming
house at 94S o street northwest.
| Paul Gardner. fifty, Of 22s Helena
avenue, Baltimore.
Both died of fractured skulls and
internal injuries.
| Miss Palmer was struck by an
Automobile, said to have been driv-
en- by James Martin Finney, jr., 81
Rhode Island avenue northwest, at
Fourteenth street and Rhode Island
avenue northwest. With her head
down, on account OF the storm, Miss
Palmer started across the street
without looking UP, 1t IL said.
Finney Is Released.
fore either could avoid the accident,
according to reports, and the woman
was knocked down and run over.
4 H1A NJ he
and Finney was released in the GUS
tody Of his lawyer. There viii be
an inquest at the r1orgue at IL
o'clock today.
Gardner was struck by an auto
mobile driven by Charles Linthicum.
of Berwyn, Nd, on the Baltimore
Pike just this side Of Baltimore.
He had alighted from his car to
adjust his headlights when Linthi-
Gums car swept him under its
wheels.
A passing automobilist brought the
injured man to the Casualty Hos
pital. A hasty examination showed
only minor injuries and it was pre-
dicted that Gardner would leave the
hospital today. While physicians
were preparing for a more thorough
examination, Gardner went into q
convulsion and died.
No Inquest Here.
Because Gardner was struck while
in Maryland, District authorities will
not hold an inquest over him.
Because automobilists were practi-
cally blinded by the rain on their
windshields, and were, therefore.
driving slowly, none of the injured
are thought to be fatally hurt. Miss
Annie Fields, 86O6 Rock Creek
Church road northwest, and r, II.
Miller, Of Ait Eighth street north.
west, were injured at New Hampshire
avenue and Georgia avenue when an
automobile operated by Ludwig r.
Szobathy, OF 1000 Fourth street
northwest, struck them. Lloyd II.
Abbott, Sl3 Randolph street north
west took Miss Fields to the Gar
field Hospital. Body bruises and
cuts were treated. Miller escaped
with only a shaking up.
May Lose Hand.
At the same intersection Catherine
Cullen, 1920 New Hampshire ave-
nue. northwest, was knocked down
by an automobile driven by Aloysius
Ryan, of 2001 Sixteenth street
northwest. Her right hand was so
pauIy crushed LnaL 1t may have to
be amputated. She is also suffer-
Ing bruises and cuts on her body.
In rapid succession automobiles
driven by e. w. Brown, of 1920 B
street nrotheast. and Marshall John
son, Of 1909 Fifth street northwest,
piled into the first Of the "safety
zone markers" at Fourteenth and
r Streets northwest. Both men
sustained cuts from flying glass.
At Vermont avenue and T street
northwest, Albert Klein, SIT Kenyon
street northwest, bicyclist, was
struck by a truck. He was taken
to his home and treated for injuries
to his legs and chest
Gut on Face and Hands.
c.. p. Gardner, 1915 II street
northwest, was cut on his face and
hands when his automobile collided
with another machine in Thirteenth
street near l. street northwest.
Others who were injured were:
Robert Lee, .colored, 100 Shots
alley, northeast; Edward Braxton.
colored, of 823 Twenty-first street
| northwest, and Daniel James, 1887
N street northwest. Their injuries
| are reported to be slight.
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