Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23
z HURLED 60 FEET
BY SPEEDING AUTO
Young Women, Struck by
Fire Chiefs Machine, in
Critical Condition.

Hurled so feet by q. speeding fire
chiefs automobile as they walked in
front of street car, which was dis
charging passengers, two young women
were so seriously injured at Fourteenth
and C streets early this afternoon that
| their lives are despaired of at Emer-
gency Hospital.
The young women, Mrs. Margaret
Connick, % years old, 1885 c street
northeast, and Miss Cecilia King, IS,
303s Otis street. northeast, employees
of the Potomac Electric Power Co.'S
Office at Fourteenth and B streets, had
just alighted from a south bound street
car and started to cross in front to
their offices across the street. AS they
stepped from the west track to the
east track the automobile of Acting
Central Battalion Chief A. H. Wolter,
driven by Private william Jaeger, flash
ed by on the left side of the street car.
Horrified spectators gasped as they saw
the bodies of the two women hurtle
into the air, describe an arc some
is feet high and crash into the west
curb so feet away.
Jaeger managed 20 bring his machine
to a stop and the two women were
picked up and rushed to Emergency
Hospital, where preliminary examina-
ton showed both sustained fractured
skulls. Witnesses described the speed
of the fire car as so to so miles an
hour. The chief was responding to an
alarm from the Department of Agri-
culture.
Mrs. Mary Jaeger, mother of the
driver of the machine, was killed by an
automobile several weeks ago.
H. r. Remnant, 1925 Sixteenth street,
and Max Yohe, 333 Mclean avenue
southwest, told Detective John Fowler
that they had seen the two women
alight from the street car while the fire
| sirens were blowing. They said they
were struck as they started to cross the
street to their offices. James M. Chill
| ton, Riverdale, Md, said the young
women stepped from the car as the au-
| tomobile approached. Other witnesses
| of the accident were Mrs. B. ]. Jones,
| 1914 Connecticut avenue; Miss Margaret
| Fainter, "a New York avenue, and Law
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| east.
From the witnesses it was learned
that the chiefs car responding to the
alarm left the District Building and
sped south. AS it approached G street
the street car stopped and the pas
sengers started to alight. The fire car
swung to the left from behind the street
car and caught the young women just
as they crossed in front Of the street
car.
The fire to which the automobile was
bound, in the grain laboratory of the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics, De-
oartment of Agriculture, at 221 Linworth
place southwest, caused no appreciable
damage and was quickly extinguished, |,
chiefly by the sprinkler system in the
building, officials of the bureau reported
shortly afterward.
The fire broke out while chemists were
redistilling ether during experimental
| work in the laboratory. The exact cause
of the fire had not been ascerta1ned
early this afternoon. What damage re-
suited, it was found, was caused by the
water.
Oficials of the Washington Railway
e. Electric Co. said that all trainmen
were instructed to use discretion in
opening the doors to discharge pas
sengers when the fire apparatus was
approaching. They believed that the
u1otorman of the car, one-man car,
failed to hear the fire siren.