Evening star., 1936-01-02
STREETS MADE ICY,
TYING UP TRAFFIC;
BOY, I, IS KILLED
TreaCherous Film Scoots
Cars to Curbs, Forcing
Thousands to Walk.
LAD ON SLED MANGlE0
BYSTREET CAR WHEELS
Traffic Over Wide Area Is Grip
pled-Montgomery Schools
Are Closed.
Thousands of washingtonians were

late for work today when q freezing
mist swept the city at the rush hour,
coating pavements with a treacherous
film which disorganized the street
transportation system, spun scores of
automobiles into cutters and resulted
in at least one fatal accident. Many
others were injured.
The victim of the accident was Z
year-old Donald A. Miller, 5232 Macomb
street, who shot beneath the wheels
OF a Potomac Heights street car at
Manning and Sherrier places on his
sled this morning and was instantly
crushed to death. The child appar-
emily clung in terror to his sled. pow
erless to avert its course as it bore
him TO destruction.
The child was coasting in the $500
block of Manning place. short street,
the lower end OF which is crossed by
the street car tracks on Sherrier place
His body was badly mangled by the
wheels.
The street car was operated by
Motorman w. Lynn Moore, SO, Of
34l5 M street and the conductor was
Paul C. Scott, A, of 419 Sixth street
southeast
Parents See Tragedy.
The child's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde Miller, we're standing at the
top of the short hill when the acci-
dent occurred. They looked on in
horror, powerleSs TO aid their son as
his sled swept him toward the ap-
preaching street car, and finally be-
meath its wheels.
Mr. Miller told police his son had
been begging him to be allowed to
coast down the hill. but refused be-
cause of the car tracks. He said he
then saw cars go by in either direc-
tion. and suppoSing the cars operated
on a 15-minute schedule, he gave
permission for the boy to use his sled.
Father, mother and son had been
walking together, the child pulling
his sled through the snow.
More Rain Is Forecast.
No end was in sight for the ice
condition. More light rain and tenn
peratures near freezing we're expected
this afternoon. followed by additional
rain and slightly higher temperatures
tonight The rain is expected to end
tomorrow morning, but the ice prob
ably will remain.
The sudden coat Of ice which
formed on city already 7 inches deep
in snow created one of the worst traf-
fic conditions in years. Buses slipped
and Skidded on the hills, automobiles
crashed into the curb or into other
cars and were abandoned by their oc-
cupants, who either walked or waited
for buses and street cars running
behind schedule.
Mail service was delayed as post
men and mail trucks skidded and
slipped on icy pavements. The COM
muters who came in from Nearby
Maryland and Virginia suffered the
most inconvenience.
Motor vehicles not equipped with
chains were ditched by scores on all
highways leading into the city.
Two busses were ditched on the Fort
Myer Hill this morning and another
on nearby Glebe road. Dozens of
automobiles failed to negotiate the
grade at Four Mile Run on Memorial
Boulevard and were parked at the
curb while the occupants walked.
Bus Goes Into Ditch.
A special bus from Memphis to
Washington bearing delegates from
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
conference in Memphis slipped into a
ditch on top of Draper Mountain, Va,
and remained there during the night.
Thirty three passengers and two
drivers walked to Pulaski and were
here this morning. The special. it
was reported. almost turned over be-
fore being ditched.
| Five automobiles were reported
stranded on the mountain during the
night with the roads SC slick that pas
sengers were forced to crawl on hands
and knees in places as they left the
vehicles If the warmer rain con-
tinueS highways were expected to be
pasSable by noon.
The icy condition extended as far
south as Norfolk, while at Annapolis
the freeze forced pedestrians into the
middle of the streets and worked con-
siderable hardship on motor traffic.
The Capital Transit Co., which does
(See WEATHER, Page A.