Evening star., 1938-09-19
5DEAD, 14|NJURED
IS TRAFFIC TOLL
OVER WEEK END
3 Victims Burned to Death
in Scar Smash.Up Near
Biadensburg.
GAS TANK EXPLODES
WHEN AUTOS COLLIDE
Man Dies After Being Found
Beside Open Door Of Machine
on Lanham.Severn Road.

A toll of five dead and IA injured,
three of them seriously, was marked
up against week end highway crashes
In the Washington area.
One Of the wrecks, involving three
machines, caused an automobile to
burst into flames, trapping three Of
the victims and preventing their es-
cape.
The fiery smash-up occurred on River
road near Bladensburg, Md, early
yesterday and took the lives of John
Holley "a, of 1865 U street NV:
Anita MITCHELL 80, of 1911 First street
NV, and Ellen Gillis, 35, of the 1900
block Of Thirteenth street NV. all
colored.
Gas Tank Explodes.
They were riding in sedan, the
gas tank of which exploded when
another car. whose driver became
blinded by the headlights of an ap-
preaching machine, ploughed into
them.
Marguerite Best, 80, colored, 1911
First street NV, was pulled from the
flaming machine and a fifth occupant
of the car, Richard Carroll, "a, COL
ored, l400 block of New. Jersey ave-
nue. NV, apparently was thrown
clear. He later was found wandering
along the road in a dazed condition.
The Best woman is in Casualty Hos
pital with serious burns to her head
and body
Three of those in the automobile
that struck the death car were hurt.
They were William Parks, II. severe
head injuries, perhaps a skull frac-
ture; Marvin Stotler, 20. chest injuries
and burns, and Jack Pickett, 19. face
cuts. All three are from Seat Pleas
ant, Md, and were taken to Casualty
Hospital.
Neither Of the two colored youths
IN the third machine was injured.
Others Killed.
The others killed in traffic were Al
bert McGinnis, %, Lanham, Md, and
Daniel Berry, %, colored, of 14lO Co.
lumbia road NV.
Mr.. McGinnis died in Casually short.s
" after he was found beside the open
door Of his automobile on the Lanham-
Severn road, near Lanham, yesterday.
Mr.. Berry was one of two persons
on q truck that collided with a pas
senger car on Route 2, near Oxon Hill,
Nd, about 1:30 am yesterday.
Injured in the same accident were
William Newman, 48, Oxon Hill, chest
injuries, and Benson Smallwood, SO,
Oxon Hill, scalp lacerations.
Shirley Walters, 6, 424 Minnesota
avenue NE, suffered fractured pelvis
when she was struck by an automobile
near her home. She was treated at
Casualty.
Pedestrian is Injured.
Francis D. Slye, q, of 234 Seven
teenth street NV, was cut on the
legs when, according to police, he
walked into the path of a machine
at Benning road and Central avenue
NE.
Alton McGhee. 9, of Seat Pleasant,
was cut and bruised when he was
knocked down by car near his home.
-Four persons, injured in a head-on
collision on the Frederick pike yes
terday between Gaithersburg and
Shady Grove, Md, were to be re-
leased from the Montgomery County
General Hospital at Sandy Spring.
All suffered cuts and bruises, but
none was in a serious condition.
In one car were Mr.. and Mrs. War
rem r. Smith of Arlington, Va, and
IN the other, John H. Buzzard, 19.
OF 1923 Upland place NE, and Stan
ley Sheppard, IS, of Nealsville. They
were taken to the hospital by the
Rockville Rescue Squad.