Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-03
CHILLED AND 7 HURT.
IN COUNTY CRASHES.
Three BaItimoreans Fatally
Injured at Monterey
Grade Crossing.

Six persons killed and seven injured,
two seriously. in five automobile acct
dents, was the motoring toll of yester-
day and early today, Three Baltimore
residents we're killed yesterday in a
decreasing accident at Monterey,
Md; one early today at Braddock
Heights, Md, when car failed to nego-
tiate curve; one pedestrian near VIII
Transport, Md, and car passenger
was killed near Bull Run Bridge, va.
When an automobile, driven by A. w.
Smith, %, of Martinsburg, w. Va, en-
route from Baltimore to that town over
the National Highway, failed to nego-
tiate turn III the road at BraddocK
Heights, Md, it crashed into wire pole,
resulting in the death of Frederick Hol-
lis. %, of Martinsburg; the serious In.
jury of Smith and Frank Piercco, %, OF
Baltimore, and three others, Russell
Stoner, IA, of Baltimore; Russell Llckey,
26, and Dudley Wolford, II, OF Martins
burg. The injured were taken TO the
Frederick, Md, Hospital.
Three Die in Train Crash.
Three persons were killed when an
automobile driven by Morris F. Watts
Maryland passenger train by Western
Maryland passenger train at Monterey,
Md. Watts, his wife and Miss Daisy
Brewer, the latter also OF Baltimore,
were instantly killed. Watts and Miss
Brewer were thrown from the machine
and died instantly. while Mrs. Watts
died EN- route to the Waynesboro, Pa,
Hospital. A coroners jury found that
the driver of the machine was reSpon-
sible for the accident.
An unidentified cripple, aged about
70 years, was run down and killed by
an automobile near Williamsport. the
driver of which continued without stop
ping. The police made a search for
a car with battered headlight, which
witnesses to the accident said was
broken by the impact.
Man Dies After Accident.
BENJAMIN Gentry, SIS years old, a
near Centerville, Va, died last night
in the Warrenton Hospital, to which
he was removed following the wrecking
of an automobile driven by James Mar
tin, near the Bull Run Bridge. 1t was
said that a tire blew out on the car,
throwing it of the road, to subsequent
~ turn over.
Two automobile crashes at Four
Corners, on the Colesville road, In
Montgomery County, Md, resulted IN
the serious damage OF one car, the in
jury of two persons and the arrest of
one man, Ellsworth A. James of Balti-
more, charged with driving without q
license. He was assessed $3.50 by JUS
tice of the Peace Charles P. Clark.
Runs on Highway.
Leroy Edwin Baxter, 1900 block of
First street southeast, ran of the road
near Four Corners, struck a cement
culvert, and landed up against a dan
ger sign on the road, according to re-
port to the northern district station by
Montgomery County Police Officer Jo-
seph Nolte. In this accident Bakers
wife, Myrtle c., and his son, George.
were injured, the former receiving a
cut on the hand and the latter cut
on the leg. According to Nolte, Baxter
alleged that car driven by a woman
sideswiped his car, forcing him off the
road. Bakers car was badly damaged.
Earlier in the day, according to re-
port by Corpl. George Windham of the
Montgomery County police, car driven
by James and one driven by Mrs. Jo-
sephine Espey, 500 block Of Eighth
street, collided near Four Corners.