Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-28
TWO F|REMEN HURT
ASENG|NE CRASHES
Apparatus Skids, Avoiding
Auto, While Responding 10
False Alarm.

Two firemen were injured, a IRE
engine put out of commission and the
driver of an automobile who failed to
stop on the approach of fire apparatus
arrested last night when an engine
of No. % Engine Company overturned
at Virginia avenue and Twenty-third
street. The engine, driven by Will
liam T. stockton. made a quick turn
TO avoid hitting an automobile driven
by Vincent =. GiovinaZZo, 533 Seventh
street southeast. Giovinazzo was
driving east on Virginia avenue, the
fire apparatus proceeding west He
failed to stop. and the fire engine.
swervins to give him wide berth
and make the turn into Twenty third
street, Skidded and crashed over on
its side.
Stockton received a fractured wrist
and Charles T. Rowe, riding on the
engine, suffered an injury to his back.
Neither was considered dangerously
hurt at Emergency Hospital, where
they were taken for treatment. Clio
VinaZZo arrested and charged
with failure to stop on approach of
fire apparatus. He put up $40 col
lateral for appearance in Police
Court.
At the time of the accident the
company was answering an alarm
from Georgetown University, which
turned out to be false. The COM
panyis hose wagon was proceeding in
advance of the engine. 1t kept on
going and those on it were unaware
of the accident until they reached
the university grounds.
Florence LomaX, colored, IA, 221O
Eighth street, was the victim of the
only hit-and-run accident reported
yesterday. She was a Florida avenue
and Seventh street, when knocked
down and slightly hurt. She was taken
to Freedmen's Hospital.
John r. Conner, APP Wisconsin ave-
nue.. while on his way to Emergency
Hospital today in the car of Hugh b.
Conner, another member of his family.
collided with the automobile of Harry
c. Birge, Falls Church, Va. at Seven
.teenth and NJ streets, resulting in
damage to both cars and destruction
of an electric light pole, the Birge
car catching fire. Policeman Tatnode
took the sick man to the hospital in
the sideCar of his motor cycle.
Mrs. Mabel Chase, Al. 1908 G street
northeast sustained fracture of her
left leg and serious injury to her
head late last night, when knocked
down by the automobile of walter
Clark, Colored. 929 Westminster
street, about 20 feet north of the in
tersection of Fourteenth and + streets.
pital. DR.. Thomas Roberts, Public
Health Service. witness to the acct
dent, told police that Mrs. Chase, her
umbrella raised. stepped directly in
front of the automobile that was not
going fast.
Mrs. Catherine r. Doe, wife of DR..
E. ]. Doe, 31l5 Forty-fourth street,
received injuries to her face and head
last night when her husbands car
collided with a steam shovel on Massa-
chuSettS avenue between Twentieth
and Twenty-first streets. She was
taken to a nearby residence and
treated by her husband.
Lizzie Washington. Colored, IS, 1853
Corcoran street, was slightly hurt
last night when knocked down by an
automobile driven by Lloyd Poindex-
ter, a neighbor, near her home.
Among the other numerous victims
of traffic accidents yesterday We're:
Richard Danzi, IL, 81 7 street: Mary
A Robinson, colored, %, 1912 E street
northeast; Margaret Curtis, colored,
81, 2247 Ninth street; Mrs. Cora
Ballou, 1925 Wisconsin avenue; Will
liam Oliver, colored, 2025 Ricketts,
court; Mary j. Boyle. so, Savoy apart
ments; Mrs. Addie Mock, &c, 1922 NJ
street; Mrs. Sinclair Silver Spring.
Md. and Mrs. Alice Moran, 1923
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