Evening star., 1934-06-24
DOZEN ARE HURT
|NMOTOR CRASHES
Six Injured in Collision Near
LeonardtoWn-Man Hit
June ID SuccumbS.

Walter Jones, So, of 3l8 Third
street, died in Emergency Hospital
yesterday of injuries received when
struck by an automobile on June IA,
and more than a dozen other per-
sons were hurt, two of them critically,
in traffic accidents in the District.
Maryland and Virginia yesterday and
last night.
Jones was hit at Seventh and F
streets by car said to have been
operated by Claude E. Kite, 80, of
Riverdale, Nd An inquest was or
dered by Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald, but 10 date was set.
The most seriously injured victim
of the week end mishaps was Eugene
R. Pilkerson, 81, of the 1400 block
of w street southeast. one of half a
dozen persons hurt when two ma
chimes crashed and overturned on
the Leonardtown, Md, highway near
Morganza. States Attorney John
H T. Briscoe of st. Marys County.
driver of one of the automobiles, was
one of the injured.
Car Crashes Into Pole.
Albert Reynolds, 80, colored, 1900
block of Union street southwest, also
was critically injured last night when
the car in which he was riding
crashed into telephone pole at
Good Hope and Naylor roads south
east.
The accident occurred, eleventh
precinct police were told, when the
operator, James McNair, also COL
ored, sWerved his machine in order
to avoid striking another automobile.
He was arrested and booked for in
vestigation. Reynolds, meanwhile,
was taken to Providence Hospital,
where he was said to have a frac-
tured skull and other hurts.
Other victims of the smash-up in
which Pilkerton and Br!scoe were in
jured were:
Mrs Briscoe. wife of the States at
torney, who suffered a badly sprained
ankle: his mother, Mrs. Walter Bris-
coe, severly cut about the legs; Mrs.
Pilkerton. dislocated hip and cuts
about the head. and an unidetifled
young man, who was said to have
been cut on the foot.
In Critical Condition.
Pilkerton, driver of one of the cars,
was treated at the Leonardtown Hos
pital for a fractured skull, broken
arm and cuts, and physicians held
little hope for his recovery Briscoe
received a fractured collarbone, a
sprained back and cuts about the
head and face.
According to State policeman Will
liam Rogers, Pilkerton's automobile
sideswiped the Briscoe car after max
ing a right turn into the highway
from a side road.
Those injured in the other mishars
we're:
RAYMOND Wit, 4, of 325 c street
southeast, cut and bruised when hit
by a machine at Sixth street and
Pennsylvania avenue southeast; Cath
crime Brown, so, colored, 1900 block
of Thirteenth street, bruised when
she walked into the rear bumper OF
a police scout automobile near her
home; Clarence Wright, "a, of Balti-
more. struck by a car while delivering
a package in the 1900 block of Girard
street; Lewis C. Miller, 19, and Rich
ard Coins, 20, both of Silver Spring,
Md. hurt when their machine crashed
into a pole near Rockville, Md; Mrs
Francis Kellison and her son, Lewis
Gregory. 400 block of Maryland ave-
nue. southwest, injured in a collision
between a truck and motor cycle on
the Shenandoah pike, near Cedar
Creek, Va, and Gibson Shull and
James Madigan, both of Frederick
County, Va, hurt in the same acci-
dent.