Evening star., 1933-02-05

More snow was forecast for the
Washington area today, after the all
day storm that swept this section yes
tcrday. coating city streets and coun-
try roads with ice and causing series
Of freakish automobile accidents. Sew
eral persons were injured.
Interstate buses were involved in two
of the mishaps. Fifteen passengers on
one of the buses were forced to remain
aboard the vehicle for about an hour
after it crashed into an electric pole
near Gaithersburg. Md, knocking q
high-tensiOn line across wire fence
against which 1t halted and charging
the metal. Taft, Klingle and Highway
Bridges, rendered slippery by the slushy
snow, were the scenes of some of the
accidents.
The snow forecast for today by the
Weather Bureau was not expected to
add much to the three ee-and-a-half
inches that fell yesterday. Colder
weather was predicted, however.
No one was injured in the crash that
resulted In electrification of the fence,
but the miShap resulted in another
accident, in which an emergency truck
sideswiped an automobile while en- route
to the scene.
The smash-up occurred on the
Washington Frederick Highway, about a
mile south Of Gaithersburg. A Pitts
burgh- Washington bus skidded from the
road, crashed into pole and careened
into the fence.
When the bus struck the pole the
line was knocked loose and draped
across the fence. Fearing electrocution,
the passengers remained aboard until
the power could be shut of by srepre-
sentatives Of the Potomac Electric
Power Co. The current was of for
about an hour while employees of the
electric company towed the bus away
from the fence and replaced the line
On its way to the scene, the power
company truck sideswiped an automo-
bile near Rockville, but both the truck
crew and the occupants of the passen-
ger car were unhurt.
Driving southwark on the wrong side
Of Highway Bridge, according to police
Fred w. Yeager, 40, of 1904 Park road
crashed his machine into the spans
superstructure. Another automobile
operated by Sadie Mccormick, 272l
Chesapeake street, stopped suddenly to
avoid hitting Yeager's car and was
struck from behind by q Greyhound
bus, driven by Elliott Markham.
Yeager was arrested on a charge of
driving while under the influence OF
liquor.
A short time later six other cars
skidded from one side Of the bridge to
the other, careening across the side
walks and into the superstructure
The machines, according to the police
report, were operated by:
James G. Jones, Alexandria; Thomas
r. Perry, 636 B street southwest;
Simon Lowery. 46 o street southwest;
Benjamin e. Jordan, Clarendon; Clyde
E. Henson, 532 Fourteenth street
southeast, and Albert II. Saunders,
Alexandria.
Lowery was driving q mail truck.
Neither he nor any Of the other drivers
was hurt. Sand was spread over the
bridge by representatives of the Amer
ican Automobile Association shortly
after the mishaps.
A three-car collision similar to the
one in which the Greyhound bus was
involved occurred on Massachusetts,
avenue, near Thirty-fourth street.
Machines operated by Fred H. Cults,
IS, Of 1919 Z street, and James E.
Wortx, 1918 Montgomery avenue, Be-
thesda, figured In the first crash. Then
Wortx's automobile careened into .
lamp post, rebounded and hit . cas