Evening star., 1938-07-15
HALF Dozen HURT
IN AUTO M|SHAPS:
MAN, IS, |SV|CT|M
Four Injured When Sedan
CoIIides With Cab and
Then Hits Bus.
DEATHS OF TWO MORE
BRING 1898 TOLL TO A.
Girl, 8, Hit by Car, Succumbs,
Motor Cyclist Expires After
Crash With Truck.

Traffic accidents in the District re.
suited today in injury to more than
! half a dozen persons, one a 7S-year.
old patent attorney, and included 9
three-way crash involving a Capita
Transit bus. a taxicab and a sedan
at New York avenue and Sixth
street NV.
The death of a colored girl struck
Wednesday and a motorcyclist injured
In crash late yesterday raised Wash
ington's traffic toll for the year to a.
The attorney, James L. Skidmore,
1902 Park road NV, who has Offices
In the Washington Loan & Trust Co.
! Building, was struck at Fourteenth
and E streets NV. shortly before noon
by an automobile which police said
was operated by Lydia Hill of Alexan-
dria. Va. He was admitted to Emer-
gency Hospital with a possible leg
fracture and severe head injuries.
Four occupants of sedan narrowly
escaped serious injury when their ma
chine collided with a taxicab at the
New York avenue intersection. ca
reened sideways IS feet and smashed
broadside into bus. The bus carried
, no passengers.
Overturning Prevented.
Witnesses said the second collision
prevented the sedan from overturning
and crashing into tree.
The occupants of the car, all treated
at Freedman's Hospital for cuts and
bruises, were Wilbur Washington, 10,
Of 628 K street S.W, said by police
to have been the driver; Albert Driver,
80, Of 400 Casey court SW.; Sam
=. Dozier. ~. Of s19 Fourth street S.W,
and Ralph Williams, ~, of 1928 Union
street SW., all colored.
The taxicab was driven, police said,
by E. w. Morgan, %, of 102 Sixty
seventh street, Benning. D. c., who
escaped injury. The smaller vehicles
were damaged considerably. The bus
was driven away shortly after the
crash, slightly damaged.
Girl Dies Of Injuries.
Grace Gardner. 9, colored, 238 K
street S.W., died at her home today of
OuxC1CN VCu1lCCOdy WllCA
struck by an automobile at Second and
H streets S.W. She was treated at
Providence Hospital for a fractured
leg, cuts about her head and internal
injuries.
Her death followed that of Willie
Biggs, 26, also colored, 1119 o street
NV, who died late yesterday at Gar
AA1d HacvA{ta1 offar Ia
crashed into the rear of q truck near
Eighteenth street and Kalorama road
NV. Fifty-seven had died in trafiic
accidents this time last year.
a Another death occurred in the near
by area late yesterday when a Rock
vile (Md) colored woman was killed
instantly after a Washington bound
Baltimore g. Ohio express train
smashed garbage truck at a Mont.
eomery County grade crossing-the
scene Of the death of child last week.
Stalls on Tracks.
The accident occurred after the
truck, operated by the woman's hus-
band, stalled on the tracks. The dead
woman was Mrs. Helen Sewell, 46.
The driver, Frank Sewell; their two
children, James, IA, and Lily, l6, and
another occupant, Charles Moore, 20,
leaped to safety. The accident oc-
CURED within a mile of the crossing
where IA children died in a school
bus-train crash three years ago.
In another Maryland accident short
~ before noon today, Cleatus B.
Grinder Of Union Bridge, Nd, re-
ceived fractures to both his legs and
internal injuries. He is in a serious
condition at Washington Sanitarium
"A blowout caused a produce truck he
was driving to swerve from highway
near Wheaton, Md, and crash into a
telegraph pole. Two other occupants
Of the truck, Carl c. Abbott and VIII
liam Main, both of Union Bridge.
escaped injury.
Meanwhile, two traffic death in
quests were scheduled today at the
District Morgue One will be in the
death Of Mrs. Bessie Goldman, 80,
wife Of Rabbi Morris Goldman. She
died June 20 at Emergency Hospital
after being struck by an automobile
at Fourteenth and Upshur streets NV.
Her husband, injured at the same time
and confined at Geofgetown Uni
versity Hospital since the accident, Is
expected to testify at the inquest.
Police said the driver of the machine
was Miss Nina Kilgour, "a, of the
5000 block of Morrison street NV.
The coroner's jury also will hear
circumstances surrounding the death
Of Mrs. Fay Robertson Roeca, 81, Of
Covington, KY, who died of injuries
received Tuesday night when struck
by an automobile while crossing IN
the 3100 block of Wisconsin avenue
NV. The driver was said by police