Evening star., 1935-10-11
CHILD IN AGONY
? FROM WOUNDS IN
TRAFFIC ACCIDENT.
Flesh Pierced by Bone OF
Leg as Coaster Hits Car
in Alexandria.
CAPITAL DEATH TOLL
FOR YEAR NOW is "a
Skull Fracture in Auto Crash
With Street Car Week Ago
Fatal to Colored Man.

A smashed head, badly cut ear and
a leg torn by a broken bone that
pierced the skin-that is the price 7
year-old Alfred Vermillion Of Alexan-
dria, Va, paid for coaster ride on q
traffic -congested highway.
In agonizing pain, the boy is how
ering between life and death in Alex
andria Hospital, while three of his
companions on the Inflated ride are
under treatment for. less serious In
turies, which are destined, however, to
cause long weeks of suffering.
In Washington, the traffic fatality
record for the year jumped to 81 with
the death in Freedmen's Hospital OF
William Taylor, Is, colored, of the
4400 block of Douglas street north
east. Taylor's skull was fractured a
week ago when a machine he was
driving collided with a Capital Transit
,. Co. car at Third street and Florida
s. avenue.
Two in Hospital.
: Two of the children who went riding
with the Vermillion boy-Keith and
John Grimes, and 6, respectively
are fighting pain and misery in the
Alexandria Hospital. The fourth VIC
tim Of the ride, Paul Cover, 3, is under
- treatment at home for raw wounds
where the skin was torn from the side
Of his face.
Gay and carefree. the four children
started out for the ride yesterday
afternoon from the Vermillion home
= at lis Grove avenue. From the top
of steep hill the coaster gained
momentum. The children shouted
: with pleasure. But at the bottom Of
:. the hill the coaster turned into Wash
: ington avenue and crashed head-on
= with an automobile The impact
: hurled the boys in four different direc-
= tons. Otherwise, they may have been
: crushed under the wheels of the
: machine.
: George P. Conner, 35, Vienna, Va,
:, driver of the car. picked up the chill
dren and rushed them to the hospital.
A hasty examination revealed that
Keith Grimes skull had been frac-
tured. His younger brother suffered
principally from shock. They are the
. sons of Mr.. and Mrs. William L..
: Grimes, 103 Mount Ida avenue.
1. The. Vermillion boy Is the son Of
: Mr.. and Mrs. e. ]. vermillion, of lis
Grove avenue. Covers parents are
Mr.. and Mrs. George M. Cover, 119
Grove avenue.
Boys Third Accident.
The accident marked the Cover
boys third in his three years of life.
A year ago his knee cap was broken
= when he was struck by car. Last
Summer he was again hit by a ma
chine, but received minor injuries.
At the time Of the accident Con-
ner had his wife and 2-year-old
baby in the car. He left them at
the scene when he took the four
injured boys to the hospital. Police
released him in the custody of his
attorney pending the outcome Of the
children's injuries.
In Washington another 3-year-old
child, Victor Brown, of 203 G street,
was cut and bruised when he was
: struck by car in front of his home.
: Casualty Hospital physicians found
: his teeth had been driven into his lip.
On his forehead was a large bump
and a bruise.
= Police reported that the machine
: which struck the Brown boy was
: driven by Aileen L. Henger, 200
Massachusetts, avenue.
: Another child, James Albert Fer
nandes, 8, of the 800 block of Forty
Fourth street northeast, and a pedes-
trian, Benjamin j. Turner, 38, of
z16 D street, were among the other
traffic victims in Washington during
the last "a hours.
The boy was struck by a car in
the 4400 block of Hunt place north
east. At Gallinger Hospital he was
treated for bruises to the face and
body.
: Stitches Given Wound.
:, Turner was struck while crossing
massachusetts avenue between New
Jersey avenue and Second street.
Casualty physicians found q cut over
:: his left eye and dislocated elbow.
Four stitches closed the wound over
: his eye. According to police, the
: car which struck him was driven by
: Pierre Taulelle, AL Fourteenth place
: northeast.
= Samuel Davis, colored, Silver
: Spring, Md, is in the Washington
Eanitarium Hospital with a skull
fracture and conclusion of the
brain-the victim of an unusual ac-
cident. He was hurled from the rear
end of truck on which he was
riding when it rounded a corner in
Silver Spring.
In the meantime, Casualty Hospital
Announced the death there of George
b. Howard, colored, Of the $500 block
of Benning road northeast, whose head
was crushed and skull fractured Nom
day when car he was driving crashed
into q warning sign on the Washing
ton Baltimore highway near Beltsville,
Md. The accident was blamed on
@Howard's failure to negotiate q curve
while going at high rate Of speed.
:. Coincident with the announcement
of Howard's death, Casualty reported
that Harry Chant, A, A street,
whose internal organs were torn apart
when he was struck by car Wednes-
day night at North Capitol and H
streets, is still struggling for life. The
pain which has racked his body since
the accident, doctors said, has intensi-
fed. and his condition Is extremely