The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-16
FOURTEEN HURT
INAUTO CRASHES
OVER WEEKEND
Speeding Sedan Strikes
Motor Bus and Six Pas
SengerS Are Injured.

Fourteen persons were injured in
automobile accidents over the week
end.
With arrest Of the sedan owner,
Police Chief Herman RikhOff urged
Sergeant Halstead, chief Of the speed
division, to continue efforts to stop
speeding. The chief said he was
gratified at arrests of nineteen for
speeding over the weekend and de-
clared cooperation Of the courts was
best means of hating the menace.
When an alleged speeding auto col
lided with a motor bus at Twenty
Third and Delaware SITS, late Sun
day. six were injured and a score es-
capped.
The driver of the speeding auto
left the scene and is at large. All
the injured were taken to their
homes.
Sergt. Dean and emergency squad
investigated and were told by H. G.
Majors, 61712 n. Illinois St. driver
Of the bus operated by the Peo-
pies Motor Transit Company. that
the sedan, in which We're five col
ored persons. hit the bus on the
left side, knocking it over the curb
and pinning it against the pole.
The sedan ran over the opposite
curb and stopped with the front
axle sunken into the ground.
Injuries Not Serious
Those injured: Miss Frances
Kavanaugh, 945 High St. shoulder
injured; Elaine Cooler, 6, daugh-
ter Of Mrs. Harry Cooler. 142 E.
Forty-Eighth St. cut on foot; Mrs.
Simon Fox, 546 E. Maple Rd.. arm
injury; Alvin Cohen. 6O2 E. Forty
Sixth St, injured about legs: Mr..
and Mrs. D. Jacobson. same adj
dress, injured by flying glass and
bruised about the body.
Among the passengers who es-
capped and who remained until police
arrived were Leonard Y. Harrison Of
the Chamber OF Commerce: Thomas
F'ricklander. 524 State Life Bldg.
and George NJ. Fork, 11O9 y. Tux
edo st. All say the sedan was speed
ing.
Women Arrested
Later Sergeant Dean arrested Mrs.
Elnora Williams and Miss Olga Ho-
gan, both of 1911 Cornell Ave. on
vagrancy charges. They, along with
Geraldine Williams, 3. and Roscoe
Clark, 6. Of 1916 Cornell Ave, were
said to have escaped injury and were
in the sedan. The car title shows il
to be owned by Walter Clark, 1915
Cornell Ave. Frank Gibson. 1916
Cornell Ave. was driving the auto.
All are colored. Clark was arrested
today.
Gibson was also ARRESTED later
today.
Autos driven by Wilburn Bohan-
non, 1889 Nordyke Ave, and Robert
N. Fish, 1926 lie Grand Ave. met
head-on at Morris St. and Nordyke
Ave.
The collision caused Wiley Fish,
4. to be thrown from the car and he
suffered injuries to his forehead and
knee. He was taken home and Bo-
harmon was held.
John L. Norris. 80, Of 2166 Barth
Ave. was charged with operating
motor vehicle while intoxicated, fol
lowing a collision of his auto with
one driven by Wilbur F. Ayers 81.
of 1922 E. Washington St, at Lin
wood Ave. and z. Washington St.
Car Turns Over
Mrs. Kate Farrell and her son
TF-iIl5ov, - 1909
ing today from injuries received Sat
urday when the car Farrell was
driving overturned at Fortieth St
and CentrSl Ave, after striking a
parked auto. Mrs. Josephine Nc
DougaI, 1047 y. Beville Ave. owner
of the parked car was arrested for
failure to display a tail light.
Miss Anna Boles. 81 y. Temple
Ave, is held after the car she was
driving struck Melvin Chandler, 8,
of 2637 E. Eighteenth St. Saturday.
The accident occurred in front of
the boys home.
A. r. Crist of Mars Hill, was cut
about the hands Saturday when the
machine he was driving was struck
at W. Washington ST.. and Rockville
Rd.. by a car driven by Ray Rhodes
of Chicago, III.
Francis McGlinchy. 1913 Lexington
Ave, was cut about the arm Satur-
day when his car turned over at Vir-
ginia Ave, and Buchanan St.
Nurses Are Injured
Misses Jackie Arbuckle and Gladys
Fears, both nurses at the Daa-
coness Hospital, are in the hospital
suffering from injuries received
when a car driven by John Shockley,
So S. Audubon Rd., was struck at
Thirty Eighth St. and Fall Creek
Blvd, by a car driven by Burton
Williams. 1908 y. Capitol Sunday
night.
Mrs. Nettie Elmore. 4033 Fulton
St, was suffering from injuries
about the head today as a result of
a crash Sunday night when a Car
driven by Louis Fuchs, 154 W.
Maryland ST., was struck by a Co
lumbia Ave. street car. Robert
Dale. 351 n. East St, motorman
Of the car. was held