Evening star., 1924-10-21
z GIRLS ARE HURT
AS AUTOS COLLIDE
High School Students Are Taken
to Hospital-Trafic Toll
Is Heavy.

Two colored high school students,
Emma Walker, 16. 1928 Corcoran
street. and Lillian Glascoe. II, 1913 @
street. were severely shocked in a
collision between two automobiles at
Ninth and Q streets shortly before. Q
o'clock this morning. while on their
! way to school.
The car in which they were riding
was driven east on Q street by Henry
X. Walker, brother of Emma Walker,
and il collided with the car of Jane
c. Carroll, 30l Twenty-second street,
both cars overturning and being bad
ly damaged.
Carroll was driving north on Ninth
street, and the collision occurred far
enough to the east of the car tracks
not to interfere with street car traf-
ffc The injured students were taken
| to Emergency Hospital. where physi-
clans said they were not dangerously
hurt.
Frank f. Young, IL, 111s K street,
was slightly injured yesterday after
noon when his bicycle was struck by
a motor vehicle driven by Charles w.
! Proctor, 47l7 Wisconsin avenue. at
Fourteenth and y streets. Police
woman Helen Stanberger took the in
jured boy to Emergency Hospital.
Fourteen-year- George Strong,
1910 Biltmore street. while at Seven
teenth and Fl streets yesterday morn
ing, was struck and slightly injured
by a piece of pipe protruding from
motor truck, the driver of which
failed to stop.
Hilton Tines. colored. l3, 514 Oak
dale street. was knocked down in
front of GAL Florida avenue yester-
day afternoon by an automobile and
his left leg fractured. He received
aid at Freedmen's Hospital
James Cassidy, 10. see Twenty fifth
street, fell from his bicycle :n front
of his home yesterday afternoon and
sustained a dislocation of his elbow.
He was treated at Emergency Hos
pital
Jesse Corbin. 6s. and Anna Thomas,
both colored, were knocked down by
an automobile driven by an uniden-
tilted colored man while crossing
near Fifth and n streets about 12:3t
o'clock this morning. Corbin was
treated at Freedmen's Hospital for
a scalp injury The woman refused
treatment.
An unidentified colored man was
knock ed down at Maryland avenue
and Third street southwest yesterday
afternoon by the automobile of The
odore j. Dusterhoff, 22s Fourteenth
street southeast. and slightly hurt
He refused hospital treatment.
Myrtle Sarber. 26. 720 Sixth street
was knocked down and injured by
an automobile at Ninth and e streets
yesterday afternoon. She was taken
! home. Police reported the failure
of the driver to stop. but the license
number of the vehicle was obtained
Charlie King, 81 1898 Fourteenth
street, was injured about the body
and legs when knocked down by ar
automobile at Thirtieth and o streets
yesterday. He was taken to George
town University Hospital.
Kenneth c. Miles. II. 314 John Mar
shall place, and II. A. English, Is
110s Fifth street southeast, riding
| tandem on q bicycle near Pennsylvania
avenue and Fourteenth street about
1:45 o'clock this morning, were in a
spill" as a result Of the wheel col
liding with taxicab.
Miles hat blew off and he lost con-
troll of the wheel when he glanced
back to see what had become of it,
and both boys were hurled to the
pavement. Miles bit his tongue when
he came in contact with the pave
ment and was treated at Emergency
Hospital.