Evening star., 1925-08-29
1 HURT IN CRASH
Of IMAM CAR AND
VACAT|ON|STS' BUS
Woman in Serious Condition
as Result of Collision at
Third and G Streets.
EYEWITNESS VERSIONS
OF COLLISION DIFFER
Street Car Reported Running at
High Speed-Motorman and
Chauffeur Free.

Eleven persons were injured today.
one Of them possibly seriously, when
a one-man safety car Of the Wash
ington Railway and Electric Co.
crashed into a bus bound for south
ern Maryland with capacity load Of
week end vacationists at Third and
G streets. Both the street car and
the big bus were partially demol-
ished.
The injured are:
Mrs. Frances Huntington, 764 Que
bee street, severe cuts about head and
body and badly shocked. Detained
at Emergency Hospital; condition pos
sibly serious.
George w. Sullivan. 80, SGT H
street northeast, motorman of the
street car; severe shock. cuts and
bruises. Treated at Casualty Hospi-
tai and sent home.
Charles f. Moran, 5s, East Falls
Church, Va; contusions of the chest.
Detained at Emergency Hospital.
Miss Minnie Stackhouse, Kenyon
apartments, cut about head and knee.
Treated at Emergency Hospital and
sent home.
James Watts. colored. 1916 o street,
gency Hospital and sent home.
May Be Injured Internally.
Arns Melchor, Ais Emory place,
possible internal injuries, but permit
ted to leave Emergency Hospital in
private automobile with friends.
Miss Sara Bonson. Gas L street
northwest. severe abrasions. Treat.
ed at Emergency Hospital and sent
home.
Mrs. Mary D. Massey. 649 Lamont
street. cut and bruised. Treated at
Emergency Hospital and sent home.
Charles O. Downey, 20S F street,
shaken up. Treated at scene and sent
home.
Robert Tolson, colored, 1918 L
street. cut and bruised. Refused hos
pital treatment.
Frederick Tolson, colored, 1880 Ninth
street, cut and bruised. Refused hos
pital treatment.
Neither Sullivan, motorman of the
street car. nor William B. Burroughs,
1903 Kennedy street. chauffeur of the
bus. was arrested. although Burroughs
went to the sixth precinct police sta
ton after seeing the most badly in
jured of his passengers sent to the
hospital and voluntarily remained
there until he was informed by the
dutnOTllleS tnat no charges were 10
be made against him.
The accident occurred few min
utes after o'clock this morning.
Although versions of eye-wiLnesses
differ, the general opinion Of those
who actually saw the accident from
the street was that the street car.
squarely between two stop streets,
was running at a high rate of speed,
F. A. Potter of Arlington, Va, who
saw the crash from his automobile,
estimated the speed of the car at 80
miles an hour.
"a Passengers on Bus.
The big bus carried "a passengers.
all bound for Leonardtown Nd Pre-
ceded by another bus of the Tide
water lines, il had left the Washing
ton, Baltimore and Annapolis Rail
way terminal at s O'Clock. Burroughs
declared he approached the intersec-
ton of Third and G streets AT a
speed not exceeding 10 miles an hour.
pointing out that his motor was still
practically cold, not having had suf-
ficient time to warm up.
The first bus, Burroughs said,
cleared the tracks safely, and when
he reached the track nearest him,
the street car, bound for Brookland,
was still considerable distance down
the block, but coming fast The
chauffeur said he would have had
ample time to make the crossing had
the street car been running at a
moderate rate of speed or even if the
motorman had slowed down. Before
he could clear the tracks, however,
the bus was caught squarely in the
middle.
Before the street car stopped it's
mad career, according to witnesses, it
had jumped the tracks and pushed the
big green bus, loaded with its human
cargo, 3S feet down the street. An
employe of the Semmes Motor Co.,
two blocks from the scene of the acct
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