Smyrna times., 1930-11-19

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CAUSED BY FOG SATURDAY
BUS AND TRUCK CRASH-ONE
DEATH AND NINE INJURIES
William III. Willim of BridgeviIIe,
Driven Home by Son, Killed in
Auto-Train Crash at Harrington
The fog and slippery highways
last Saturday were contributary
causes of two deaths and a num-
Der of injuries between Bear Sta
ton and Bridgeville. One man,
John Card of Casanova, New
York State, was killed instantly,
and nine injured Saturday night
on the Glasgow-Elkton Road, a
mile and half south of Bear Sta
tion when a bus of the Colonial
Lines enroute from Washington to
Philadelphia, was side-swiped by a
truck driven by Howard Williams
of Philadelphia. Nine occupants
of the bus including Steward
Smith, the driver, were injured.
The two drivers were held in $4,000
bail each on charges of man
slaughter. State Highway police
investigated the accident and
learned that the bus was proceed
ing at a moderate speed when the
crash came. The front of the
truck struck the side near where
Card was sitting, three seats from
the front of the bus. His skull
was crushed and he died almost in
stantly. The other occupants of
the machine were injured by fly
ing glass and from the shock of
the impact. The injured were ex-
tricated from the wrecked bus and
hurried to hospitals in ambulances
and in cars of motorists attracted
to the wreck. The driver of the
bus said he was in the line of traf-
fic when the crash occurred and
the driver of the truck declared it
was due to his machine skidding
on the slippery road. The truck
was badly damaged and the bus
was wrecked.
Teachers in Accident on Highway
Two teachers of the Bridgeville
public school are in the Delaawre
Wilmington, suffering
from injuries received Saturday
night when the machine in which
they were returning from the
of the State Teachers AS
sociation, at Newark, collided with
another car on the DUPONT Boule-
ward near Boyd's Corner. Miss
Anna r. Short, of Cannon, daugh-
ter of E. w. Short, the driver of
the automobile in which the teach
ers were riding, escaped injury,
but Frank Scott, of Montgomery
county, Pa, who drove the other
car, suffered injuries to the elbow
and the left shoulder, but did not
require hospital treatment. The
pair who We're hurt were Miss
Mary Lendenham, of Bridgeville,
who received decorations of the
face and scalp and fractured
ankle, and Miss Emily King, 80
years old, daughter of Raymond
King, of Seaford, received lacera-
tions of the face and scalp. II
was first reported that Miss King
had received fractured skull, but
examination proved that this was
not the case. In the car with
Scott were his wife, Mrs. Mary
Scott, AZ years old; his son, Frank
Scott, Jr., 8 years old, a brother,
Lewis Scott, of Haverford, Pa, and
his son, Lewis Scott, Jr., years
Did. None of them were hurt. The
extent of damage to the car of
Miss Short was estimated at 5000.
and that of the Scott car at $780,
Scott said that the rain and fog
made it very difficult for him to
see, and blinded by the lights of
he approaching Pontiac, careened
across the road and crashed into
t. Private Jewell and Hession, of
he State Road station, State
Police, investigated the
accident. No arrests were made.
w. III. WiIlim Killed at Harrington
William H. Willim of Bridgeville !
vas killed Saturday when his auto
vas crossing the track a mile be-
ow Harrington. His son, w. I.
who was driving the !
failed to see thru the
og, an approaching freight train
md crashed into the train. The |
,lder Willim suffered fracture of /
he skull and died several hours |
lfter being admitted to the Mar
hall Hospital at Milford. Private /
Holt. of the State Highway Police
orce was a witness to the acci-
lent. He stopped to await the
passing of the train and he said
hat Willim pulled around him and
.rashed into the train. He helped
he men from their wrecked car
md took the elder man to the hos
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