Evening star., 1937-06-12
DEFENSE HIGHWAY
CRASH KILLS TWO
D. c. CoIored Men Die After
Car Skids, 0verturns
and Hits Tree.

Two Washington colored men vert
killed in q Maryland crash early to-
day, while a third died OF injurie,
received in an accident severdl day,
ago. bringing the Districts 1887
traffic toll to so. eight more than for
the same period last year.
The Maryland accident also re-
suited In injuries to five other persons
one Of whom was hurt when two
cars collided at the scene Of the fatal
crash.
The dead are William Watts, %, OF
31S G street southeast; Keither Will
liams, 20, Of 2024 Georgia avenue
and Francis Duncan, 20, of 303 Third
street southwest.
Eight other persons, all from out Of
town. were injured in another smash
up early today on Route SO, about
miles this side Of the Fairfax (Va)
Court House Three Of them were
seriously hurt.
At Georgetown Hospital, where six
Of the victims were taken by passing
motorists, the seriously injured were
identified as T. F. Peck, II, and his
wife, 70. Of Etowah, Tenn, and Ralph
Weir, II, of Caledonia, Ohio.
Peck. who may be injured internally,
and his wife. who may have q skull
fracture, were passengers in an auto
mobile operated by their daughter,
Mrs. Stella shearer, 3e, also Of
Etowah.
Mrs shearer received multiple lac
erations and perhaps internal injuries
and her son James, 6, was cut on the
head. Thomas Peck, 10, q nephew Of
Mrs. Shearer. vas unhurt.
The Weir youth, riding In another
machine, has q fractured skull, ac-
cording to physicians. His mother,
Mrs. Sarah A. Weir, -, may have q
factured skull.
Mrs. Weir's husband and another
son, 16, also were reported injured,
but they were not brought to George
town and could not be located i'm
mediately.
-Four Alexandra women were In
tured and the driver of trailer truck
narrowly escaped death in q freak &C
cident on the Washington Richmond
Highway, south of Alexandria, last
night.
The women, Emily Jones, ThelmA
jackson, Ethel Williams and Josephine
Webster, all received head injuries
when their machine collided with the
truck, bursting the gasoline tank OF
| the truck.
| Shortly after the crash, E. Daniel
Berg, Of Chester, Pa, jammed on the
brakes Of his motorcycle near the ac-
cident, and spark from his engine
ignited the spilled gas. The truck
caught fire and the driver, Millard C.
simms. 70. Of Gastonia, N. c., barely
managed to extricate himself.
Watts and Williams were passen.
gers in a machine that skidded, over.
turned and struck q tree on the De
fense Highway miles from tn,
Peace Cross when the driver at
tempted to avoid trafhc snarl.
Head and Leg Injuries.
Hurt in the same accident were
Joseph Briscoe, II. colored, 1921 {
street southeast. severe head injuries
Oscar Williams, %. colored, 925 Fifth
street southeast, the driver, leg in.
juries; Francis Williams, %, colored
also Of the Fifth street address, head
injuries, and Sterling Watts, 10, col.
ored. 3l8 G street southeast, heac
injuries
Dorothy Corrado, 20, OF 1912 North
Capitol street, received sprainec
back when the automobile in which
she was a passenger was tagged down
at the scene Of the accident and an.
other car crashed into its rear. She
WAS taken to Sibley Hospital
Duncan died in Emergency Hos.
pital from injuries received Wednes
day when truck on which he wa.
working was struck by another trucl
at Seventeenth and H streets.
Man, IS, Severely Hurt.
Most seriously injured OF othe,
Washingtonians hurt during the las
"a hours was Frank Bowling, IS, O.
2109 F street, who was struck by az
automobile at fourteenth and ,
streets.
At Emergency Hospital he was sal,
to have compound fracture Of tn
thigh and perhaps 4 fractured skull.
Therman Dandridge, 13, colored
5000 Gay street northeast, received
hip injury when struck by a passin
. automobile as he alighted from
street car at Twenty-fourth street an,
, Benning road northeast He VA
. taken to Freedmen's Hospital.
William Green, is, Of 1927 FIT,
, street. sprained both ankles in An acct
dent that occurred while he va
"hitching" ride on his bicycle o.
the back Of an oil truck, according t
. a police report.