Evening star., 1935-04-22
"A DIE, zoo HURT
|NEASTERT TRAFFIC
Maryland and California
Lead Death Toll With
Each.
BY the Associated Press.

The Nation today counted "a dead
and more than 200 injured in highway
traffic accidents over the Easter holi-
day.
Maryland's toll Of 10 was raised by
the deaths of six young persons when
their speeding automobile hit a park
ed truck near Powellsville. A 50-year-
old farmer was killed and the driver
Of the death auto was slightly injured
when his automobile overturned twice
A 5-year-old child and an 80-year-old
man were felled by automobiles, and a
l6-year-old high school student was
crushed to death when he cranked a
tractor in gear.
The Capitals traffic death toll for
the year was raised to 81 with the
deaths Of two persons, one as his
automobile hit a telephone pole. an
other the victim of a hit-run driver.
Ohio's week end fatalities numbered
six, two victims Of crossing carsh
at Columbus and another killed by
hit-skip driver who later surrendered.
Three Skaters Killed.
Near Lancaster, Pa, girl and two
boys, returning from a skating party,
were killed, and another girl was hurt
shortly before midnight in the crash
Of an automobile and truck. The
dead: Alice Shake. II, Coatesville:
Ellis Rhoades, 81, and Arthur Snow,
19. both of Rock Run.
Iowa's toll was three deaths. Victor
Pahl, a track star of st. Ambrose Col
legs, was injured critically when struck
by an automobile as he changed a
tire.
Thomas Emerson, 80, was killed in
Smyrna. Del, and his brother Law
renee, 38, was injured when another
car struck their parked automobile.
A woman was hurled from her auto
mobile to the street and killed in
Milwaukee when another automobile
struck her car. She was one Of six
killed in Wisconsins accidents. At
Mayville a retired farmer, carrying a
3-year-old child in his arms, was
killed crossing q street. The child
was unhurt.
Three Rockford, ILL.,, women were
killed in q head-on crash and three
others were injured. A Chicago youth
was killed in an elevated track accident.
Two Students Killed.
Two Ohio University students were
killed and the parents Of one Of them
injured last night when a Michigan
Central express train struck their
automobile at a grade crossing in
Calumet City, III. The dead: Miss
Elinor Hitchcock. II, Athens. Ohio,
and Eugene Macdonald, 81, Chicago.
Police said Los Angeles had its
worst traffic toll in months, with 8
dead and 113 injured. 13 critically,
In San Francisco one was killed and
five hurt. San Diego had one dead,
six hurt, one probably fatally.
Near the Onondaga Reservation In
New York, Ernest Jacobs, AZ, an In
dian, was killed by hit-run driver.
A Flat Rock, Mich, child. 3, was
killed when her father backed an
automobile over her. A Detroit police
man was fatally crushed against q
wall when he unfastened an auto
mobile trailer.
The told by States: Alabama, 1;
Arkansas, l.; California, 10; Colorado,
/; Connecticut, /; Illinois, Z; Indiana,
1: Iowa, 8; Kansas, /; Louisiana, /:
Maryland, 10; Massachusetts,, 4; Mich
igan, 2; Mississippi, 3; Montana, /;
Nebraska, L: New Jersey, 6; New
York, /; Ohio, 6; Oklahoma, /; Rhode
Island, 2; Texas, /; Utah, 1; Wis
consin 6, and the District of Column
bia, 2.
At Baltimore a man and woman
were dead today as the result Of
Easter automobile accidents.