Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
Capital Men Severely Cut
When Car Leaps Over
Embankment.
FIVE STRUCK BY AUTOS
SUFFER MINOR INJURIES
Three Men Cut and Bruised as
Machine Runs Into Ten-Foot
Ditch on Canal Street.

Twelve persons we're injured IN a
series of traffic miShaps in and ABOUT
the Capital yesterday and last night.
Two of them are in Sibley Hospital
suffering from serious injuries.
They are Eugene Longprae, "a, OF
1902 Fifth street, Washington Rapid
Transit Co. mechanic, and John S.
Jordan. 20. of 1851 Mount Pleasant
street Both men received severe lacera-
tions when the automobile in which
they were riding. light coupe, plunged
over an embankment and crashed into
telephone pole on Eastern avenue near
Bladensburg road northeast.
Miss Virginia Bowman, %, OF 2l15
Pennsylvania avenue, also a passenger
in the machine, according to police,
escaped injury.
Car Hits Side Of Bridge.
The car. owned by Longprae, was
operated by Jordan at the time OF the
accident, police said. 1t was believed
the vehicle struck the side OF a bridge
over the Baltimore 81 Ohio Railroad
tracks. and careened of the road at
the south end of the bridge. 1t was
demolished. The passengers were taken
to the hospital by Theodore Randall of
the 700 block of A street southeast, a
passerby.
Longprae was treated for decorations
of the scalp and possible fracture of
the skull. Both men were badly cut
by broken glass.
Felled by an automobile at Four
tenth street and Park road, Delmar
D. Hale, a. of 423 Addison avenue,
Virginia Highlands. Va, suffered LAGER
atoms of the right knee, sevdtal frac-
tured ribs and body bruises last night
He was taken to Garfield Hospital.
Struck at Intersection.
Evelyn Williams, IS, of 532 Fourth
street northeast, received bruises Of the
right hip and arms late yesterday when
an automobile driven by Mary Sher-
burn, 40, OF 4122 Twenty street
northeast. knocked her down while she
was crossing the intersection of Mount
Vernon place and Seventh street. She
was treated at Emergency Hospital. A
companion, Mabelle Davis, Is, of 534
Fourth street northeast, also was struck
by the car, but escaped injury.
Cuts about the face were suffered by
Col. H. c.. Hunt, 1927 Rhode Island
avenue, Ehen he was brushed by pass
ing automobile and thrown to the road
way while crossing in the 1900 block
of N street yesterday afternoon He
refused hospital treatment The driver
of the car, police reported. was Mrs.
Ethel A.. Birchland, AZ, of 4707 Connec-
t1IuO dFCtldC.
Thomas C. Warren, IS, Of 3O6 Sew
enth street northeast, was treated at
Freedmen's Hospital for leg cuts re-
ceived when a motor cycle he was OPP
Grating collided at Ninth and o streets
with an automobile driven by Charles
w. White, colored, 81, of 3l8 o street.
Woman Is Injured.
Mrs Lena Feldman, 80, of 908 Emer-
son street, was cut and bruised when
run down by an automobile driven by
Frances r. Ewing, Al, of Chester
County, Pa, in the 400 block of Sew
enth street.
Alice Smith, IS. -cclored, was severely
injured when struck by an automobile
on Rhode Island avenue near Hyatts-
Vile, Md. She was treated at Casualty
Hospital for possible fractures of the
legs and pelvis and lacerations.
Three colored men were injured last
night when their automobile ran into
l0-foot ditch in the 400 block CT
Canal street southeast.
Those injured were: Leger NARROW,
40, of Is c street southwest Andrew
Wood, 80, of 531 Forty-eighth street
northeast; Ben w. Galloway, "a, OF the
SEQ block of street southwest.