Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
WOMAN IS KILLED
AS AUTOS CRASH
ON.FA|RFAX PIKE
Six Are Injured When Two
Machines Hit Head-on,
Wrecking Both.
VICTIMS NECK AND
LEG ARE BROKEN
One Car Bursts Into Flames, but Is
Extinguished Quickly by
Virginia Firemen.

Mrs. Minerva A. Anderson, 81 years
old, of 1900 Carlton avenue northeast
was killed and six other persons were
injured last night when car driven
by her son collided head-on with a
machine in which four Virginia youths
were driving to the Fairfax County
fair. The accident occurred three miles
from Fairfax on the Little River turn
pike between Fairfax and Alexandra.
Mrs. Anderson sustained fractured
neck and two fractures of her right
leg, and died almost instantly. The
others escaped with minor cuts and
bruises.
The injured are the son, William An
derson, 81: Mrs. Lula Withers OF 507
Massachusetts, avenue, Bernard Free
man, 20, of 81 East Linden street, Rose
mont Alexandria; Norman Muddiman
of 108 Craik street, Rosemont, Alex
andria Robert Newly, Is, of Seminary
Hill. Fairfax County, and Wilson Creel
of Annandale, Va.
The Anderson youth, with his mother
and Mrs. Withers, was driving toward
Washington while the four other youths
were en- route to the Fairfax fair in
Freeman's sedan when the crash &C.
Cured. Both machines were wrecked
and their occupants thrown into the
roadway.
Freeman's car later caught fire, but
was extinguished quickly upon the ar
rival of the Fairfax Fire Department.
Deputy Sheriff G. Wilson Darr Of
his investigation had not progressed to
the point where he could definitely say
how the accident had occurred. for all
of the principals involved in the case
were so confused by the shock of Mrs
Anderson's death that they have not yet
clearly related the details of the col
liSion.
Da-S. who was patroling the Little
River turnpike with several other Fair
fax officers in police car, was one
of the first arrivals on the scene. In
structing his companions to maintain
a watch over the wrecked machines, lie
placed Mrs. Anderson and two others
in his automobile and drove at break
neck speed to the Alexandria Hospital
where Mrs. Anderson was pronounced
dead upon arrival. Mrs. Anderson is
the mother of Mrs. H. K. Philips 81
BIS Forty-flfth street.
Passing motorists took the others
with the exception of Mrs Withers, tC
the Alexandria Hospital. Mrs. Withers
was brought to Emergency HoSpita
here, where she was treated for cuts
and bruises. An X-ray was taken this
W uCtClDllhC WA1ChAtCA cAAS AAeeN
a fracture of her right arm.
William Anderson, Creel and Newly
were detained all night at Alexandra
Hospital after being attended by DIR
Martin D. Delaney, while Muddimar
and Freeman were permitted to go tt
their homes after receiving first aiC
treatment for their. cuts.
Sheriff Eppa Kirby of Fairfax County
said today that Freeman, who is to bt
released from the Alexandria Hospita
this afternoon, would be taken to Fair.
fax for an investigation of the case
Arrangements for an inquest today after
the questioning of Freeman also are
being made by DR.. T. Marshall Jones
Alexandria coroner.
The body of Mrs. Anderson, who was
the widow of Charles F. Anderson, has
been removed to Wheatley's funera
home in Alexandria pending the COM
pletion of funeral arrangements.