The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
BUS DERAILS
TROLLEY CAR,
8 ARE HURT
Scores of Students Are
PeriIed in Crash on
Wet Street.
DRIVER IS ARRESTED
One Woman Killed; Eleven
Injured in Other
Accidents.

Eight persons were injured today
when a Peoples Motor Coach Com
pany bus, inbound on New York
street, crashed into an East Mich
igan street car, loaded with Tech
nical high school students on their
way to school, at Fulton street.
One woman was killed and eleven
persons injured In other traffic &C
cidentS over the weekend.
The buS-Street car collision oc-
CURED shortly after a. m. Leon
ard Du Pont, 1905 West Washing
ton street, driver of the bus, was
charged with assault and battery
and reckless driving. His hands
we're cut by glass from the bus WIN
dowS, nearly all of which were
broken.
The bus smacked into the side
Of the street Car in the center,
knocking the rear truck of the car
from the tracks and swinging the
rear end of the car, jammed with
screaming students, its length north.
The swinging rear end of the car
struck truck, parked on Fulton
street about twenty feet north of
the corner and knocked it on to the
sidewalk.
Wet Pavement Blamed
Motorman Ray Purdue, 1853 West
New York street, declared he had
stopped at the corner and was just
starting UP when the bus struck
the car.
Du Pont, driver of the bus, blamed
the crash on the wet wood block
pavement. He said he was not driv-
ing fast and damned on his brakes
and skidded three bus lengths.
The bus was knocked into tele-
phone poles at the northeast corner
and badly damaged. All the in
jured persons were bus passengers.
The injured:
Mrs. Fred Sutherlin, 57O7 East
Twentieth street, right hand and
arm cut; Mrs. lone DeNoun, 1890
Wallace avenue, hands cut; Mrs.
Pearl Tulley, 1916 North Temple
avenue cash on top of head; Miss
Lora Givin, Twenty-first street and
Leslie avenue, leg injuries; J. A.
Thimann, 1929 East New York street
right wrist Sprained; K. w. DECKER
son., 2175 Riley avenue, right arm
and shoulder sprained.
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One woman whose name was not
learned also was injured. All the
injured we're treated at the scene
and by neighboring doctors and
taken to their homes.
Mrs. Lola B. Parks, 63, of 3031
Bellefontaine street, was fatally in
jured late Saturday when struck by
BrookSide avenue car at Massa-
chusettS avenue and New Jersey
street. She died Sunday afternoon
Of q fractured skull.
Mrs. Parks was crossing the street
with her daughter, Mrs. Osborne,
with whom she lived, and pulled
away from the daughter to step
lIlCO GIle pdOl Oh CIle Car, ponce Sdlu.
Knocked from Wagon
Mrs. John Graham, 239 Lansing
street, received bruises about the
back and shoulders today when she
was knocked from the wagon in
which she was riding with her hus..
band, John, when it was struck by
an automobile driven by Thomas
LaFever, $50 North Lynn street.
The accident occurred in front OF
I'LL West New York street and
Mrs. Graham was taken into the
Office of nearby physician. La
Fever said that his car skidded on
the wet pavement.
G. L. Bruins, As, of 1884 School
street was seriously injured Sat-
urday night at Sherman drive and
English avenue when his machine
collided with one driven by Harry
Cunningham, 25. of GOT College ave-
nue.. Cunningham was charged
with reckless driving and speeding.
Others injured the weekend
accidents included:
Daniel Giblin. 1241 Sheppard
street; Howard Springer, %, of 539
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