Evening star., 1938-10-03
THREE Y0UTHSD|E
WHEN AUTO HITS
BRIDGE ABUTMENT
Three Other Young People
Are Seriously Injured if
Same Crash.
MARYLAND ACCIDENTS
HURT EIGHT ADDITIONAL
District Mishaps Negligible. but
Two Persons Are Run Down
in Nearby Virginia.

Three youths were killed and three
others seriously injured when their
automobile struck an abutment and
plunged off bridge into Piscataway
Greek between Clinton and T. B., Md,
in Prince Georges County early yes
terday. Eight other persons were
hurt in additional Maryland week end
accidents, while the District traffic
toll was negligible.
The dead in the Piscataway Greek
accident were Morris Buckler, 10, Guy
and Webster WEIGH, II, twin brothers,
all of Benedict.
In Washington hospitals are Lucille
WEIGH, IA, sister of the twins; Albert
Miner, jr, IL, Benedict, and Robert
Williams, 18, United States Naval
Training Station, Norfolk, Va. All are
seriously injured.
The WEIGH girl and Albert Miner
are at Providence Hospital Williams
was transferred to Naval Hospital yes
terday from Providence.
Thomas r. Farrell Maryland State
police patrolman, said he believed the
car driven by Buckler had been travel
ing at high speed and crashed into
the abutment when the driver was
blinded by headlights of an oncoming
automobile.
Motorist Discovers Tragedy.
The injured lay in the brush for two
and half hours before a motorist
noticed them. The young people were
returning to Benedict after attending
Saturday night motion picture show
In Washington.
Meanwhile, Albert Miner, ST., father
Of the injured youth, sought to keep
news of the accident from Mrs Miner,
also a patient at Providence, where
she gave birth to boy week ago
The father works for a Washington
ice cream concern.
Five persons from Hagerstown, Md,
were injured, none seriously, when
their car overturned in a ditch on the
Rockville pike near Grosvenor lane.
Spencer Lindsey 20, one of the VIC
tins, was in Washington Sanitarium
and Hospital with several broken ribs
and wounds on the forehead. The
others, treated at the sanitarium and
discharged, are Miss Ruth Renner,
10; Ethel Shaw, %; Frances Miller,
%, and Leroy G. Metz.
Two Others Hurt.
An accident at Forestville, Md, yes
terday resulted in injuries to two
young men, Charles Furman, 19. Boil
ing Field, who was taken to Walter
Reed Hospital, and Robert Fox, 25,
1000 block of G street NV, who was
taken to Casualty The car in which
they were riding ran off the road.
They were not hurt seriously.
Mary C. Hobbard, %, Of 55l3
Eighth street NV, suffered head in
juries, perhaps skull fracture, in an
accident near Laurel, Md, last night.
She was brought to Emergency Hospi-
tai, where, in addition to the head in
juries, she was treated for multiple
cuts.
Hilda I. Chew, Al, of 421 Eleventh
street SW., and Paul R. Kanode, 26
of 3l2 Second street NE, we're cut
and bruised when their automobile
struck lamp post and tree on
Bladensburg road NE, near r street,
early today. Both were treated at Gal
linger.
Man is Struck.
Alfred Winsett, SO, Potomac Hotel,
was taken to Emergency with a broken
wrist and cuts Saturday night after
he was knocked down by a hit-run
driver on the Lee highway, near Co.
lonial Village.
Alice Lee, colored, of the 900 block
Of Eighth street south, Arlington, Va,
was taken to Freedmen's Hospital yes
terday after she was struck by car
said by police to have been driven by
Miss Mary Virginia Eaton, Fairfax, Va
The woman suffered broken right
arm and dislocated shoulder. Police
said she was struck at Columbia pike
and Ives street, in Arlington County,
as she was crossing the road.
Auto Strikes Pole.
Frederick Bosch, 36, of Bowie. Md,
and Harry G. Weiss, 40, of Highbridge,
Md, were injured when their automo-
bile, driven by Mr.. Bosch, struck a
telephone pole on the Defense highway
near Bladensburg early today. They
were taken to Casualty Hospital by the
Bladensburg Rescue Squad.
Officer Earl j. Huber of the Prince
Georges County police, who investi-
gated the accident, said the left front
tire of the car had been blown off.
Both men were said to be in fair
condition today by hospital officials.