Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-24
WOMAN Of 70 DIES
AFTER AUTO INJURY
Mrs. Margaret R. Wroe Is
Fifty-first Traffic Fatality
Here Since January |.

| Mrs. 'fargaret r. Wroe, 70, who wa.
J injured August Ia In walking against
! the automobile of Mrs. Mary w. Wal
/ lace, S0lS Eighth street, at Seventh anc
| y streets, died at Emergency Hospita
| last night. victim of the fifty-first fata
accident since January |.
Mrs, Wroe had inst stepped from tbs
temporary sidewalk where building
operations were In progress. and Mrs
W ace was making a rlsht-hand turn
when the accident occurred.
Mrs. Wroe. native Of Bsltsville. Md.
was widow OF Capt. Charles P. r. Wroe
who served as captain of Company d
Is. Volunteer Infantry. In the Civil War
H died % years ago. She Is survived
By niece. Mrs John /. StarneS. 524
Park road, and nephew. Richard Belt
also Of this city. Funeral services viii
b. conducted at the home of the niece
Monday afternoon. Intcrment will be
in Arlington National Cemetery,
-Four Hurt in Train.
The motornan and three passengers
en- a car Of the washington Railway IL
Electric Co. were injured yesterday aft
elncon when the dropping of the rear
meteor caused the car 10 sop suddenly.
The car man, Clifton Brown, 81, 2l5
Thig,sen"l str southeast was hurled
mo the glass FROM of the car, end the
shatteIing pane cut his throat. At Emer-
eanty Fl al his condition today sill
5 uudevsi- lined.
Mrs Anna V. Hensel, 81. of Colmsr
Manor, Md. one of the passengers, sus-
aimed a fracture of one rib. and like
The other two passengers vas bruised
and shocked The others were Mrs.
Olive Houser. 90 years old, of 939 Fifth
street northeast and Mary f. Lansher,
- years old. of 24ll Eighteenth street.
A collision on Highway Bridge early
today in which four cars figured fed TO
the injury of one man and the arrest
of another
According to the police report. Reed
V Richmond. 81. 42l2 River road. who
operates cars for hire, wes at the wheel
OF a machine that hit the car OF j. r.
Carver of Alexandria, i1turing James
Murphy, so. of 700 Franklin street.
Alexandria Carvers passenger. the
Carver car was hurled into that OF Al
bert Taussig, II years old. OF Gum
Springs, Va. which in turn struck
the machine of Remus Jones of l24l
Irving street. The total damage to
the vehicles was put at $3.50 Murphy
was treated at Emergency Hospital for
a cut head. and Richmond was charged
with driving while intoxicated.
Other Traffic Victims.
Three other traffic victims were re-
ported over night
While at Second and S streets, Louis
Bryant. coiored. l4l T street, was struck
BY the automobile OF Benjamin Jackson,
il44 Nineteenth street, and his head
and chest injured. He was treated
at Freedmen's Hospital
Thomas Slaughter, 10, sl8 Eleventh
street southeast, ran against the side
of the automobile of G. B. Smithey,
i25 Rock Greek Church road, while
playing near Pennsylvania avenue and
Eleventh street southeast Suffering
from conclusion OF the brain, the child
was treated at Casualty Hospital. His
condition was reported undetermined,
Z. Nj. Blackwell. 81. 1921 Twenty
ninth street, was knocked down at Dunn
barton avenue and Twenty-seventh
street by a taxicab driven by Leon j.
Phillips, 463 H street southwest, and his
arm slightly injured. Phillips took him
10 Emergency Hospital.