Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-16
Girl Also Hurt and Fourth
Escapes Injuries as
Car 0VerturnS.
SOFT ROADSIDE DIRT
BLAMED FOR CRASH
Children Prominent in List of
Yesterdays Car In
jurieS.

A 16-year-old girl and two young
men were injured early today, when
the automobile in which they were
riding overturned on Defense Highway,
Near Beverly Hills. Md.
The most seriously hurt Of the trio
was James L. McInerney, % years old,
IL Grant circle, who suffered a frac-
tured skull. He is at Sibley Hospital
where he was still unconscious Severs |
hours after the accident, which occur
red about 2 am.
Joseph Stoner, 20, Of 4o16 Seventh
street. driver Of the car, also was Lad
~ hurt, receiving injuries of the same
nature as those suffered by McInerney.
Physicians at Casualty Hospital, where
he is patient said he was conscious,
however.
Miss Helen Lloyd, 16, of 324 Eleventh
street southeast, was cut about the
head, face and neck, and the right
side OF her chest is believed to have
been fractured. She is being treated at
Sibley.
Another young woman, whose name
investigators were unable to learn, was
riding in the machine, but she escaped
injury.
The foursome was returning from
o dance at Beaver Dam Club. given by
. fraternity. The automobile, it was
sank into the soft dirt at the side Of
the road.
Stoner was taken to Casualty by
John A. Peters, AIS New Hampshire
avenue. who also was returning from
the dance. Another motorist took Miss
Lloyd and McInerney to Sibley.
One Child Dies.
One child died yesterday from in
turies suffered in an automobile COLI
sion near Aceotink, Va, while four
other youngsters we're reported hurt in
local accidents, one seriously.
Two-year-old Jean Gray, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Gray of 23o9
Nichols avenue southeast, died at Emer-
gency Hospital from a fractured skull
received when her fathers car was
struck by another machine on the
Washington Richmond highway Thurs
day.
Gray was driving southwark when an
automobile approaching from the OPP
posite direction skidded on the wet
roadway and crashed into his auto.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gray were hurt but
slightly, while three other occupants
escaped uninjured.
Struck by an automobile at Four
tenth and Varnum streets late yester-
day, Raphael G. Enrich, IL years old,
OF 1903 Randolph street sustained a
fractured skull and broken right leg.
He is reported to be in a critical con-
dition at Garfield Hospital.
The driver Of the car, John F. Ellis,
II years old, of 4413 Fifteenth street
was not held by police.
Suffers Minor Injuries.
Other children who were hurt in YES
terdayS accident were Mary Ellen Eek
loff, years old, Of 1902 c street north
east; Jeanette Gibson, z, of III2 L
street. and Robert Hinton, colored, S. of
1880 Sixth street. They received only
minor cuts and bruises
The Eckloh girl was run down by a
truck at Twelfth and G streets north
east. and was taken to Casualty Hospi-
tai for first aid. A taxicab hit the Glib
son child in the 10000 block Thirteenth
street. She was treated at home Rob-
ert Hinton walked into the side of an
auto in the 100 block Sixth street and
was struck by the rear bumper He
went to Freedman's Hospital
Two colored people, Mary Davis. rs.
OF 469 K street southwest, and James
Posey. %, OF S02 o street, suffered cuts
and bruises when an automobile in
which they were riding crashed into
a street car trolley pole near Nicholas
avenue and Homer place southeast last
night
Both were taken to Casualty Hospj-
taI and treated by staff physicians.