The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-24
NINE MORE
HUR 7 ON
STREETS
Some Seriously Injured Are in
HospitaIs-one Victim
browns in River.

washington CWenCy-lour HouIS
of fog and slippery streets result
ed in four deaths during that
time, three of the accidental trag-
edies being due to automobile and
street-car mishaps, and one due
to drowning.
Victims i'm the Tragedies.
The dead are:
Daniel Ehrhard, sixty, 800 Third
street northwest, street car acct
dent.
Aaron Smith, fifty, ROsSlyn,
Va. automobile accident.
Willie Ebb, twenty, 20S n street
northwest. cOIOred, automobile ac-
cident.
Paul Hartnett, twenty-One, 1924
Sixth street southeast, drowned.
In addition to those killed as
result of accidents, nine were
more or less seriously injured, and
are now in hospitals.
Run Down in Fog.
The accident which cost Ehr-
hard his life happened at Fifth
street and Stanton place northeast
when he was struck by a street car
operated by Motorman Fred A.
Troup. 4521 Canal road. He was
taken to Casualty Hospital, where
he died. According to the police,
Troup did not see the aged man In
the fog, and ran into him.
Woman Finds One.
Aaron Smith, of Rosslyn, Va, was
struck by an automobile driven Dy
Thomas Moffet, Fort Myer, while
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Highway bridge. He died at Elmer
Rency Hospital. Sheriff Clements
Is conducting ADMINISTRATION. Moi
felt reported the accident to District
Uolice and was released for action
Of Virginia authorities.
Willie Ebb. colored, 203 n street
northwest, was found huddled in the
street near Fourteenth and Upshur
streets northwest by Mrs. Naomi
Miller, 434 K street northwest. He
was unconscious. With the aid OF
three men, she placed him into her
machine and took him to Garfield
Hospital, where he died of a frac
tured skull.
From the circumstances of the
death, police are of the opinion that
he was struck by an automobile
whose driver was unaware OF the
accident.
Loses Life in River.
Paul Hartnett was drowned in the
Potomac river, near the Municipal
wharf yesterday morning, when he
fell from a row boat. Four hours
later, his limp body was dragged from
the waters.
The drowned youth and two com
panions, Walter r. Birch, twenty
one, SIS Eighth street southwest,
and George r. Rock, 712h Seventh
street southwest, had spent Satur-
day night and Sunday morning on
q launch, Mad Tom
Goes For Cigarettes.
Finding that they were without
cigarettes, Harnett is said to have
volunteered to igo ashore to pur-
chase some. A splash and a yell
were heard by Rock and Birch
shortly after Hartnett departed
with a row boat Birch recognized
the voice as that Of his companion,
and leaped into the water after
him. Exhausted, and numbered by
the cold. he returned to the boat.
After another fruitless search, the
harbor police were notified. They
found the body.
Hartnett was visiting his parents
here for the Christmas HOLIDAYS. He
had been staying with his grand.
parents at Colonial Beach. His
mother, Mrs. Alice l.. Garrity. and
stepfather, Charles Clarity, survive
Several Women Hurt.
Elizabeth Myers, thirty, 343O Mt.
Pleasant street northwest. was
bruised on the arm and side She
was knocked down by machine
at Sixteenth street and Columbia
road. '''
Suffering a cut on the mouth
and other injuries, Mrs S. Lewis
eighty-two, 1921 Fifteenth street
northwest, was treated by DR.. E.
Lewis. of Spring road. She was
thrown from her car during a col.
lision
Carl Stamates, six, 1906 Park
place, sustained a laceration on the
forehead. His condition is NOT
Ffremen Injured.
George Hunt and Claude NJ
White. firemen Of No. Engine
Company, were badly cut when
their machine was in collision
with another at Maple View place
and Nichols avenue southeast HINT
was removed to Casualty HOSPITAL
Others hurt are Osborn Creei
fifteen, of Arlington county. Va
Annie Cottrell, colored; William r
Iaycock, fifty-four, and his wife
Emma Laycock, fifty-two; Lydia