Evening star., 1938-04-25
THREE ARE DEAD
ANDD0zE ENHURT
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Baltimore Woman Burned
to Death in Fire-BIast
Following Crash.
c. c. c. YOUTH KILLED
BY HIT-AND-RUN AUTO
Richmond Girl. %, Succumbs as
Car Leaves Highway-Triple
Accident Injuries Three.

Sunday drivers left trail of three
dead and more than a dozen injured
as the result of accidents in the Dis
trict and in nearby Maryland and
Virginia.
One of the victims, Mrs. Mary
Wells. %, of Baltimore, was burned
to death last night and and two
others were injured in an explosion
and fire which followed crash on
the Frederick pike near Ellicott
City, Md.
The car in which Mrs Wells was
riding, the Associated Press reported,
was being towed by another when it
was struck by a third car Both the
towed automobile and the striking
machine burst into flames.
Mrs. Wells, sitting in the rumble
seat. was blown into the air when the
gasoline tank exploded. She landed
in the flaming wreckage and was
burned to death.
Jockey Seriously Hurt.
Seriously injured were Ralph Eek
hard whom police identified as q
Jockey at Pimlico and driver of the
car that struck the machine in which
Mrs. Wells was riding. and Barry
Hartle of Chewsville Md, riding in the
Eckhard car. MIR. Eckhard suffered
internal injuries and Mr.. Hartle had
a deep cash in his head and burns.
The others killed were Miss Mary
A rhrJcfnphor @f
Horace Lane, 19-year-old c. c. c. en-
rollee.
Miss Christopher died and two other
persons, her 60-year- mother and
Mrs. Susie Morris, so, narrowly escaped
death when their automobile left
United States highway No. l six miles
north of Fredericksburg. It crashed
into bridge abutment, overturned in
creek and was partly submerged.
Hit-and- Run Victim.
Young Lane was killed when struck
by hit-run driver on the Triangle
Joplin road in Virginia. A colored
man later was arrested in connection
with the case.
Mrs. Margaret Helsel, 80, of 557
Fourteenth street Sc, received Sc
we're head injuries. perhaps a skull
fracture, in collision that occurred
at Altoona, Pa, while she was motor
ing with relatives
In one of the Washington accidents,
four persons were hurt when their
machine was in collision with a Cap
ital Transit Co. bus at Sixth and M
streets S.W. They were Walter Rich,
rs; Mrs. Inez Rich, IS: Betty Rich,
8, and Fred Rich, 6, all of Alexandria.
None was believed seriously injured.
A three-car crash at Nebraska and
Massachusetts, avenues NV. sent
three persons to the hospital. They
were Louise Baruday, %, of 1915 Wis
consin avenue NV. cut mouth; June
Jones, %, of 174o Euclid street NV.
shock and conclusion, and Jack Jones,
80, of the Euclid street address, cut
forehead.
Two Youths Injured.
William Ross, 16, of 4O24 Illinois
avenue NV, and Cecil Hazard, Is.
of 1920 Fifteenth street NV, were
cut and bruised in an accident at
Nebraska avenue and Albemarle
street NV.
While an inquest was scheduled to-
day into the death Saturday of Sixth
Precinct Policeman Ernest T. Vessels,
20, who crashed into the side of a
street car, it was reported that an
other officer narrowly escaped a SINH
lar fate few hours later.
The second policeman, Bernard j.
Beckman, of the United States Park
Police, was pinned under the front
OF a street car for half an hour after
1t struck him when he made a turn
in front of it at Fourth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV. After be-
Ing extricated, Mr. Beckman was able
to ride his machine to Emergency
Hospital, where he was found to have
no broken bones.
Prior to the inquest into the Wes-
sells case, funeral services for the
officer, who lived at 651 Hamilton
street NV, with his wife and Z
year-old son, were to be held this
morning at Hines undertaking estab-
lishment. A police guard of honor
was named to attend the rites Burial
was to be at Mr.. Vessels birthplace,