Evening star., 1937-09-27
FIVE DEAD, SCORE
INJURED IN NEARBY
HIGHWAY CRASHES
Motor CycIist, Wed Only Two
Months, Is Killed Near
Fredericksburg.
EDN0R, ND, MAN VICTIM
OF HIT-AND-RUN AUTO
Two Walking Along Roads Are
Struck by Cars-City Escapes
Fatal Accidents.

Five dead and more than a score
injured was the toll taken in traffic
crashes on nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia roads during the first week end
holiday Of the Fall police reported
today. No fatal accidents were re-
ported in the city proper.
Eugene c. Dowell, %. of 628 Sligo
avenue. Silver Spring, Md; his wife
and another man and girl were in
jured last night when the motor cycles
on which they were riding crashed
into the rear of a sloW-moving au-
tomobile on the Washington-Rich-
mond highway near Fredericksburg,
Va.
Dowell, who suffered fractures of
the skull. jaw and leg, died in Mary
Washington Hospital, Fredericksburg.
His wife, Mrs. Gertrude Dowell, 81,
who was riding tandem on the motor
cycle, suffered cuts on the head and
only two months.
A motor cycle operated by Raymond
G. Hall, Is, of Burnleys, Va. piled
into the wreckage when Dowells ma
chine spilled. Miss Margaret Ayres.
1e, of Fredericksburg. who was riding
tandem on Halls machine. suffered
. fractured pelvis. Hall was treated
for cuts on the head. A third motor
cycle narrowly missed piling up on
the wreckage.
Hit-and-Run Fatality.
John E. jenkins, 20, Ednor, Md,
was killed by hit-and-run automo-
bile early yesterday on the Colesville
pike, miles north of Colesville. His
body was dragged IS feet from the
spot where he was first struck, marks
on the road showed. He had been
dead several hours when his body
was found. He had worked as farm
hand.
Dallas Jackson, colored, Herndon,
Va. was killed and five companions
injured early yesterday when the au-
tomobile in which they were riding
swerved from the road and struck
bridge at Bull Run, Va. Those in
jured, all colored, are John wilkinson,
Newman, all of Herndon, and Florence
Wilkinson of Sterling, Va
Walter Skilman, 80, of Fairfax, Va,
an employe of the Virginia State
Highway Department., was killed when
struck by hit-and-run automobile
while he was walking on the Fairfax
Winchester Highway.
Pedestrian Is Killed.
Samuel Silvius, SO, of Gaithersburg
was killed instantly while walking on
highway 240, about 2l2 miles north OF
Gaithersburg last night.
Colon Crolley. 25, also of Gathers
burg. was operating the car which
struck Silvius, police said. Crolley
told Officers Windsor Poole and Will
son Payne of the Montgomery County
force that Silvjus walked in front of
his car as he was about to pass him.
The Rockville Rescue Squad took
Silvius' body to Rockville, pending
further investigation.
Mrs. Mary Revercomb, u, of the
Home for Incurables, was critically
injured today when struck at Wiscon-
sin avenue and Tenley Circle by an
automobile driven, police said, by
David M. Miller "a. Of Alexandria,
Va. Miller was charged with reckless
driving Mrs. Revercomb was treated
at Georgetown Hospital for a possible
fracture of the pelvis, shock and cuts
and bruises.
-Four persons were injured yesterday
when an automobile and an interstate
bus oollided at Eleventh and G streets
southeast. Those hurt were Robert
H. Herring, 26, Of 522 Raleigh street
southeast, driver of the car; his wife,
Lillian, Is; his brother, Charles, 20,
and Emo Cuchale, 20, of Hyattsville,
Md. Robert Herring was charged at
the fifth precinct station with reck-
less driving and in Police Court to-
day, bond was fixed at $500 pending
hearing October 6. The Herring
brothers were treated at Providence
Hospital for cuts and bruises. Mrs.
Herring and Cuchale were treated at
Casualty Hospital for head injuries.
Boy, s, Is Injured.
After visiting his mother, who is i'll
In Providence Hospital. 5-year-old
William j. Gore, Berwyn. Md, was
struck by an automobile block from
the hospital yesterday. He was given
f1rst-aid treatment at Providence and
allowed to return home.
Grant Reddish, TO-, Of 214 Upshur
street, was cut on the head last night
when struck at Bennings and Bladens-
burg roads northeast by an automobile
driven, police reported, by William
Barkley, 16, Of 1884 Seventh street
northeast He was treated at Gallinger
Hospital.
Arthur Smithwick, TO- OF 1lO3 c
street southeast, and Emo Zell, 1s, OF
1920 East Capitol street, were treated
at Casualty Hospital for injuries suf-
fered when the motor cycle they were
riding ran off the Marlboro pike
Smithwick, operator of the machine
suffered fractured left hand and cuts
on his legs. Zell was treated for cuts
and bruises.
Joseph W. Williams, %, Asheville
~ c., suffered possible internal in
juries when door of the automobile
in which he was riding few open and
he was hurled to the road at Bladens-
burg. He was treated at Casualty Hos.
pital.
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