Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-05
More Than so Are Injured
and Is Arrested for Shoot
ing Fireworks.
TWO DROWNED; ONE DIES
IN HEAD-ON CAR CRASH
Jokesters Tossing Firecrackers Into
Auto Hurt 7-Month.0ld Baby
and Boy 10 Years Old.

The glory of the Capitals July the
Fourth faded today under a trailing
cloud of holiday accidents in and near
the city which cost three lives, sent
more than threescore celebrants to hos
pitfalls or physicians and led to the ar
rest of Is persons for shooting fire.
works.
There were two deaths in the water.
one automobile fatality and numerous
casualties of varying gravity resulting
from ultimely explosion of fireworks
some of the latter of bootleg" variety.
A perverted sense of "humor" induced
several alleged practical jokesters to toss
lighted firecrackers into passing auto
mobiles or at pedestrians, injuring a
7-month-old baby and a 1O-year-old
boy. Police are seeking the perpetra-
tors.
The dead:
David w. Buell., 81 years old. shop
foreman, of 200 Del Ray avenue, Be-
thesda, Md, drowned shortly before
last midnight about a mile west of the
from wharf into canoe.
Boy Scout Loses Life,
Arthur Dewey, 12-year-old Boy Scout,
Of Rosslyn, Va, died under water, pos
sibly from heart attack, after diving
into swimming hole at Camp Wood
row Wilson, Scout camp, at Burnt Mills,
Md
Constable Frank Brown, So years old,
of Laurel, Md, killed in head-on auto
mobile crash near the Laurel Bridge.
Tn Hn
version, &c. also of Laurel, was gravely
injured. He is under treatment at the
University Hospital, Baltimore, for
numerous hurts.
Hospital attaches and family physi-
clans we're busy throughout the day at
tending victims of fireworks accidents.
Many of the injuries were caused BY
So-called safe and sane" noise NAL ers
and lights, and others resulted from
premature explosion of f1recrackers.
Many of the latter were "bootlegged''
into the city from nearby Maryland
and Virginia.
Police Drag for Body.
Buell. was drowned just off Simpsons
float on the south side of the river,
when he fell in the water while getting
in a canoe Miss Margot Hipkins. %
years old, 1705 p street, who preceded
him in the canoe, called for help when
he fell, She said Buell. had one foot in
the canoe and one on the wharf when
the canoe apparently slid away from
him.
Attracted by Miss Hipkins' calls for
help campers along the river and at
PENDANTS at Simpsons boathouSe sum-
moned police. The District of Columbia
fire rescue squad and police of the har-
Dor precinct hurried to the scene and
began dragging for the body.
Buell. was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
M. W. Buell. of Falls Church, Va. He
Is survived by his parents, two sisters,
Mrs Ester E. Lewis and Myra Buell., IS
years old, of Falls Church. and two
brothers, John E, Buell. of 1909 Fifteenth
street, this city, and Alven J. Buell. of
Falls Church.
Young Dewey is believed to have
died of heart attack just after strik-
ing the water at the Burnt Mills camp.
The boy had been eating roasted pota-
toes and the condition of his stomach
togther with the shock of the cool
water is said to have brought on the
attack Very little water was forced
from his lungs by the Kensington
Volunteer Fire Department rescue squad
and Montgomery County Policeman Jo-
seph Nolte, who administered first aid.
Ihey worked on MN Tor almost an hour.
Had Been at Camp Several Days.
DIR. w. A. Shannon of Takoma Park
Pronounced the boy dead and issued a
certificate indicating heart trouble.
Dewey and his brother, Alton Dewey,
had been at Camp Woodrow Wilson sew
eral days. They are the children of
Mr.. and Mrs. Randolph Dewey of Sill
yer Spring.
Arthur was pulled from the water
by his companions. The Kensington
rescue squad and the Silver Spring
Volunteer Fire Department, both at
the Independence day carnival at Kens-
ington, made the run to Burnt Mills
in few minutes. The body was taken
TO Rockville by W. Reuben Humphrey,
jr., undertaken. No inquest was con-
sidered necessary. Arthur was a mem
Der of Troop Sc
Constable Brown was fatally injured
when the car in which he and Halver-
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