Evening star., 1938-01-24
IS F|REMEN HURT
WHEN TRUCK SK|DS
ANSWERING ALARM
Six of Rockville Department
Seriously Injured as Ma
chine 0verturns.
APPARATUS RESPONDING
TO CALL ON ACCIDENT
Eight Other Persons Minor Casual.
ties in Week End Traf-
fc Crashes.

Responding to an accident call near
Boyds. Md. yesterday morning a
Rockville, Md. Fire Department truck
crashed into bank and overturned,
injuring six men seriously and in
flicting lesser injuries on seven Others
Eight others were hurt, but not seri-
ously, in other traffic accidents in
Washington and vicinity over the
week end
The accident occurred near NeelS-
vile while the truck was following
the rescue squad car to the reported
collision in which George B. Russ, 19,
of 1908 Quincy street NV. sustained
broken leg. He was standing on
the running board of his car, parked
at the side of the road. when another
machine, operated by Preston Turner
colored, of Boyds, skidded on the icy
road and crashed into his machine.
Montgomery County police strug-
gled for more than an hour with a
traffic jam created by friends and
relatives of members of the Fire De-
partment, who hurried to the scene.
List Of Injured.
Those seriously injured were May
nard Hudson. %. driver of the truck.
broken left leg and internal injuries;
Elmer Hutchison, Is, back injuries;
George Norris. l9, conclusion of the
brain: John B. Ray, %, fractured
ribs; Theodore S. Mason, jr., rs, frac-
tured right leg, and George Boise, 40,
fractured right wrist.
Others who escaped with cuts and
bruises were Paul Anders, 10: Frank
Poole, %; Will Gartner, IS; Norman
Pyles, 26; Calvin Hutchinson, %:
Woodrow Marth, %. and William
Wootton. 25 Poole went to the hos
pital today for X-ray examination.
The rescue squad car reached the
scene of the first accident, but was
Immediately ordered to return to take
members of the Fire Department to
the Georgetown Hospital. The rescue
squad truck from Gaithersburg, Md,
then took Russ to the Montgomery
County General Hospital at Sandy
Spring.
SkidS 100 Feet.
EyewitnesSes said the truck turned
around twice and skidded for more
than 100 feet before it overturned in
the ditch. Coils of heavy fire hose fell
on top of those thrown against the
bank.
Eight persons. two of them children,
were injured in other accidents in
Washington and vicinity over the week
end. but none were reported in a seri-
Gus condition.
Woodrow Bates, "a. and Sidney
Bloom. 10, both of Bethesda, Md, were
cut and bruised when a motor cycle on
which they were riding was in collision
with an automobile operated by John
G. Cain. "a, of the $500 block of Fifth
street NV, at Wisconsin avenue and
Fessenden street NV. Mr.. Bloom also
received a dislocated shoulder. Mr..
Cain refused treatment for minor
shoulder injury, police said. Two
women passengers in Mr.. Gains car
were uninjured.
A hit-and-run automobile struck
Mary Alice Strickland, 8, of % r street
NE, at North Capitol and O streets
late Saturday, cutting her legs and
hands.
Falls OF Bicycle.
Eugene Glaze. 4. Of SOC Sixth street
NE. fell off a bicycle while riding
with girl companion yesterday. She
was treated for cuts and bruises to the
face and head at Casualty Hospital.
Hilda Sprinkle, 16 of 14OO block of
North Lincoln street, Arlington, Va,
received collarbone fracture and pos
sible brain conclusion in an automo-
bile collision early yesterday morning
at Glebe road and Columbia Pike in
Arlington. Robert Chichester, about
16, of the $500 block of Hampton
street, Bethesda, Md, received slight
bruises. Both were taken to Emergency
Hospital where Miss Sprinkle's condi-
ton was said to be improved.
Robert Comstock of the 1900 block
of Montgomery Lane, Bethesda, said
by police to be the operator of the
car bearing Miss Sprinkle and the
Chichester youth, was released under
$500 bond Marvin May of the 5100
block of Connecticut avenue was listed
as operator of the second car. Mr.
May was released under 5000 bond
Both drivers were uninjured.
Catherine Margelos, IT, of the 600
block of Fourth street SW. received
fractured collar bone when a car
in which she was riding overturned
at Montrose, Va, yesterday afternoon
She was treated at Providence Hos
pital and dismissed.
SM.,7o Dolu1.7st