Evening star., 1933-12-14
TOLL Of 5D|NJURED
! ON ICY STREETS
Hundreds of Autos Stranded.
Nearby Accidents Many.
Temporary Rise Predicted.
Continued From First Page.)

Although abandoned automobiles were
frequent in both Arlington and Fairfax
Counties, only one serious accident was
reported.
This happened in the town Of Fair
| fax, when an automobile driven by
Walker McC. Bond of Winchester
skidded as it was about to pass Grey
hound bus, swung across the road ano
then crashed into tree. The auto
mobile was demolished and Bond was
taken to Alexandria Hospital by Police
man Carl Mcintosh: where he was
| found to have suffered several fractured
ribs, a fractured knee cap, bruises ano
face lacerations.
In an effort to avoid q collision with
the car, Edgar Sharpe, driver Of the
bus, turned of the road and Jus'
missed going down a l5-foot embank-
ment by striking a tree. 1t was said By
Sheriff E. P. Kirby. None Of the eighl
passengers on the bus was injured.
| AS soon as the sleet started Arlington
| County officials began spreading sane
| on the hills of the principal thorough
| fares, among which were Wilson Boule'
| ward, Mount Vernon avenue, Frazer
! avenue and Addison avenue. Despite
these precautions. however, trafhc tie
ups were frequent. especially on the
States road One motorist reported tna'
1t took him an hour and half tc
drive from Clarendon to Falls Church
because Of the difficulties encountered
by other cars, and another said that
he left Washington at $40 o'clock yes
terday afternoon and did not reach his
home in Alexandria until 1880 O'Clock
last night.
Fairfax Conditions Similar.
Similar conditions existed throughout
all of Fairfax County. Ofhcials at
tributed the lack Of injuries to the slow
speed at which cars moved along the
icey roads.
Two men, both residents Of Alex
andria, were injured when their auto
mobile and a truck collided on the
Alexandria Washington road near Lloyd
avenue here yesterday afternoon.
Louis Dyer, 43, Of l52 Hume avenue
the driver Of the automobile. sustained
neck, and c. S. Haley of Isl Clifford
avenue, a passenger, received a possible
fractured shoulder, according to the
report Of local police. Both were given
treatment at the Alexandria Hospital.
Police arrested Boyd L. Diggs. col
ored, as driver of the truck, on a
charge of reckless driving.
Numerous accidents occurred in
Montgomery County. but only one
casualty was reported to police.
Mrs. Minnie Tomlinson. so years old,
of Walls Center, N. Y, suffered unde-
termined hurts when a car In which
she was riding with her husband, Ray
Tomlinson, skidded on Wisconsin ave-
nue., in Bethesda, and demolished an
electric light pole.
Tho wNv1an Wqg repn0Ved In the
Georgetown University Hospital by the
Bethesda Fire Rescue Squad. X-rays
were taken today to determine the
nature of her injuries.
A curious freak of nature oc-
| CURED along the streets OF Rockville
and the road leading to Norbeck. Al
though the surface Of the thorough
fares were wet. 1t had not frozen.
Other roads in the county were covered
with treacherous coating Of ice.
Children Among Victims.
Others injured and treated at hos
/ pitfalls included:
Lee Jackson. colored. "a, Glen Arden.
Nd. brought to Providence Hospital by
| the Bladensburg rescue squad and
| admitted after treatment for frac-
tured leg.
Margaret O'Connell, 2, Of l705 Capt.
tol avenue northeast. lacerated forehead
suffered when she slipped on ice near
her home. Treated at Providence.
Amy Jenkins, IS, of 3l7 Third street
southeast, trested at Providence for
| fractured arm, suffered when she fell
on the steps at her home.
James Stafford, 20, colored. Ali
Thirteenth street southeast. treated at
Providence for cuts over eye. suffered
In fall on icy pavement
! Clarence Jackson. 10, colored, 121
street southwest treated at Providence
for lacerations over eye, suffered in fai
near the hospital.
William Kemp, Is, of 829 Fifth street
, southwest, broken arm, suffered when
he slid under q truck after his bicycle
slipped from under him on the icy
pavement Providence Hospital.
Frederick Bates, 8, Of 50l3 Belt road
treated at Georgetown University Hos
pital for bruised and cut face after he
fell from his sled in alley rear of 40C
block Fessenden street.
| Airline William, IS, Of 1908 Twenty
third street, who fell on the ice at
Washington Circle. Treated at Emer-
gency Hospital for fractured left leg
Jeane r. Brucen. 80, of 27l2 Wiscon-
sin avenue, who fractured her left leg
| WIicu SiiC lcil Au 1IOuI VI AcI uOfIlc
Treated at Emergency and admitted
Reed Dolan, 81, Alban Towers
treated by police for head injuries
suffered when he fell on the icy pave
ment in 2l00 block Thirty-seventh
| street.
Thrown From Bicycle.
Lawrence Sullivan, IT, Of 2957 Carl
ton avenue northeast, thrown from his
bicycle on G street southwest between
Four ur-and-a-half and Sixth streets
I Treated at Emergency for laceration OF
| forehead.
Mabel Comstock, 46, of 2l3s California
street. who slipped on ice at Columbia
Road and California street. Treated
at Garfield for fractured left shoulder
Agnes Tanning, 81, of 412 Seventh
street southwest. who fractured her left
leg when she fell on the ice on Seventh
street southwest. near her home
Treated at Emergency Hospital. ane
Clarence Gordon, colored, "A, of 13l
D street southwest, who fractured his
left wrist and Sprained his right wrist
in fall on the ice at Third street anc
MacLean avenue southwest Treated
at Casualty Hospital.
| WAudAu n. 1Soucy, OF, VI f<f GicNeuII
street southeast, who slipped on the ict
in the 200 block of c street northeast
Treated at Casualty Hospital for frac.
tured left arm.
! Irving Keys, colored, 80, OF POLL
Georgia avenue, who slipped ano
struck his head on the curb in the
IND TRAFFIC