Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02
IS PERSONS TAKEN
TO HOSP|TALSFO
ACCIDENT INJURIES
Miss Helen ReintzeII and Ed
ward ChriStman in Sc
rious Condition.
HIT-AND-RUN MOTORIST
MAKES ESCAPE ON FOOT
Two Cars Turn Over Twice on
Washington Baltimore Boule-
ward, Hurting Ten People.

Accidents sent 10 persons-motorists
and Professionalism hospitals with in
juries late yesterday and last night.
Two of the victims of the many mis-
haps-Miss Helen Reintzell, 18 years
old, of 1885 Spring road and Edward
Magruder Christman, 10, of $500 New
Hampshire avenue-were reported to be
in a serious condition today.
Miss Reintzell suffered possible
fracture. of the skull when sedan OPP
Grated by Arthur K. Olsen, %, of 6517
Eighth street was struck and overturned
by a heavier car at Twelfth and w
streets shortly after midnight. The
driver of the second car is said to have
abandoned his machine and to have
fled on foot.
Driver Not Apprehended.
A passing motorist took the injured
girl to Garfield Hospital. Police of the
eighth precinct instituted an immediate
search for the hit-and-run driver, but
he had not been apprehended today.
Christman is confined to Sibley Hos
pital with fractures of both legs and
internal injuries received when his mo-
tor cycle was in a collision at Kennedy
street and Georgia avenue last night
with car driven by Neal Joseph Wenk,
26 years old, of 5008 Seventh street.
Ten of yesterdays casualties occurred
in pair of accidents on the Washing
ton-Baltimore boulevard. Six persons,
riding in machine driven by Mrs. Lii
liam Snider of 5000 Eighth street, were
hurt when the car ran off the road and
overturned twice, while four were in
jured when an automobile operated by
James M. Gray of 3704 Thirtieth street
northeast figured in similar mishap.
Mrs. Snider's husband, Louis Snider,
suffered decorations of the scalp and
possible fracture of the skull, while
the driver, two children, Jerry and
David, and Mr.. and Mrs. Nat Lieber-
man Of 1887 Taylor street, sustained
minor cuts and bruises.
II Stitches Taken.
All six persons were treated at the
Office of a physician nearby. Seven
teen stitches were required to close the
head wounds of Snyder.
Gray, Charles Holland of Branch
vile, Md, and the wives of the two
men were brought to Washington for
treatment after the other accident on
the boulevard. All of the occupants
OF the car suffered cuts and bruises.
Holland sustained possible skull frac-
ture.
A pedestrian, Mrs. Mary Egan, 81
years, old, of 2230 Massachusetts ave-
nue., was removed to Emergency Hos
pital with a fractured right leg after
machine operated by Allen I. Wat
kins of the 200 block Third street
knocked her down at Dupont Circle
and Connecticut avenue.
An accident on the Washington Rich
mond Highway near Quantico Va, sent
two Baltimore men, Meyer Cohen and
Ray Morrison, to the Marine Base Hos
pital with minor injuries. Sol AlromitZ
and Julia Alromitz, who were in the
machine, escaped unhurt.
Mrs. Sarah PomerantZ, 33, of 300 L
street, was treated at Emergency Hos
pital for minor decorations of the head
suffered in an accident at State place
and Seventeenth street, while Mrs. Luz
ellie Jackson, 35, of 1879 First street,
was given first aid for cuts on the
right hand sustained in another miShap.
Lacerations of the scalp, upper lip
and right knee were received by Lo-
renzo James, coIored, "a, of 800 Mclean
avenue southwest, when his car crashed
head-on into tree at South Capitol
and streets. He was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital.