The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
HURT IN
AUTO MISHAPS
ON WEEKEND
u Riding on Truck Injured
When 1t Turns Over
and Catches Fire.

Nearly forty persons. including
twenty-five Negroes riding in
truck which caught fire after turn
ing over, were hurt in traffic acct
dents over the weekend.
The truck accident occurred on
the Allisonville road, one mile south
of Allisonville, when tire blew out.
All persons riding in it were re-
moved before fire reached them.
Broken bones were incurred by
four. They are ROLAND Sanders, Is,
of 2l58 Baltimore avenue, rght hip
fractured: Anna Smith, Is. of 2423
Martindale avenue, left leg and jaw
broken; John Tuggle, IA, of 2517
Yandes street. right arm and col
lar bone broken, and Vernon Wealth
ers, Is, of 243S Martindale avenue,
left arm fractured.
Driver of the truck, Clyde Bridges,
q, of 2714 Columbia avenue, was
cut and bruised.
Girl Hit BY Taxicab
Cuts and bruises were incurred
by Dorothy Lee Williams, IL, of
5742 GuilforG avenue, when she was
struck by taXicab after she alight-
ed from a street car at College av-
enue and \Fifty-eighth street. Ed
ward Shelton. %, of IT'S West Mar
ket street, driver of the cab, was
arrested on charge of failing to
stop for a street car.
Harry B Van Trees, IL, of Ala
North Beville avenue, was arrested
on charges of drunkenness and
drunken driving after his automo-
bile collided with one driven by
Daniel S. Sellers, 1879 West Twenty
eighth street, at Illinois and Fifty
second streets. No one was hurt.
Occupants of an automobile which
struck John King, IS, Knightsrown,
as he was walking at Capitol av-
enuc and Sixteenth street did not
offer to aid him, he told police. He
was cut ard bruised.
Girl Is Injured
Slight injuries we're suffered by
a girl riding in the automobile of
Lewis E. Hollowell, Alexandria,
when it collided with another car at
State Road 81 and the Post road
She was treated at the Ft. Banjamin
Harrison hospital and taken away
before her name was obtained
The other car was driven by r. w.
Arnod, Detroit, who was accompa-
MED by Merrill Hershey, Detroit,
and John Wayman, a hitch hiker,
who had been given a lift. Arnold
and Hershey were en- route home
from Los Angeles, after losing in
Olympic game trials for the 440-
yard dash.
Nine persons of two families, we're
shaken and bruised when autcmo-
biles colliced at High School and
Rockville roads. One of the cars was
driven by Carl Simmons, II, King
man, accompanied by his mother.
Mrs. Ethel Simmons, 38, and four
other cnildren-Oral, 16; Lewis, Is;
Joyce, II, and Virginia, 10.
The other car was driven by John
Wells, 80, of 4419 West Washington
street, who was accompanied by his
wife, Mrs. Cleo Wells, 81, and
daughter, Joan, 5,
Incurs Serious Injuries
Serious injuries we're incurred by
Lewis E. Fish, IS, of Beech Grove,
when he was struck at Washington
and Pennsylvania streets by an au-
tomobile driven by Mrs. Myrtle
Treager. 43, Beech Grove, who was
arrested on a charge of failing to
obey a traffic signal.
In other accidents, cuts and
bruises we're suffered by the fol-
lowing: Robert Rayer, 7, of 416
West Abbott street; 1. A. Patr'"l,.
40, address not known; Miss H ~.
Clark, %, of 1108 North Rural sire .;
Den Bruce, "a, of 4917 East New
York street, and Albert Wadsworth,
Is, of 1926 Paris avenue.