Evening star., 1940-09-21
4 Ambulance Crash
Victims Remain Under
Hospital Treatment
Seven Hurt in Collision
With Bus; DR.. Henry
Seriously Injured

Four persons of the seven in
tured late yesterday in the crash
of an Emergency Hospital ambu-
lance and a Capital Transit bus
still remained under hospital treat
ment today.
The condition of one of the in
iured-Dr. Russell Cole Henry, the
physician on the ambulance-WaS
considered grave. He received head
and spine injuries.
The crash occurred at C~nnec-
ticut avenue and Van Ness street
NV. as the ambulance, carrying
two women to Emergency Hospital
from the scene of another accident,
struck the front end of the bus.
List of Injured.
Those injured, in addition to DR..
Henry:
Mrs. Elizabeth Bouve. 25, of 5000
Tilden street NV, shock, cuts and
bruises, condition fair.
Mrs. Mary M Bouve, 100 Shep-
herd street, Chevy Chase, Md, brain
conclusion, decorations, abraSions
and shock, condition serious, in
Casualty Hospital
Rayford Jones. 80. colored. 1900
block of Sixth street NV, driver of
the ambulance. still under treat
ment but condition not considered
serious.
Mrs. Nell Spruce, 4309 Van Ness
street NV, passenger on the bus.
released from Emergency Hospital
after treatment.
Bertha Hall. 25. colored, 42l0
Thirty eighth street NV, another
bus passenger, also released after
treatment at Emergency.
Mrs. Mary S. Theriault, so, OF
1902 River road NV. a bus pasSen-
ger. released from Georgetown Hos
pital after treatment.
Vehicles Badly Damaged.
The ambulance, at the time of the
crash, was returning from the scene
of a bad accident at Nebraska and
Nevada avenues NV, in which Mrs.
Mary Bouve and her daughterin-
law Mrs. Elizabeth BOuve. had been
hurt.
The ambulance was proceeding
south on Connectlcu. avenue, ac-
crossing the avenue going west on
Van Ness street. The front ends of
both the bus and the ambulance
were badly damaged.
The driver of the bus. H. j. Rich
ardson, escaped without injury.
Traffic along Connecticut avenue
was congested for sometime after
the accident.
Accidents in nearby Virginia cost
one life and sent several persons
to hospitals. Crashes in Washington
brought injury to two others.
Killed near Woodbridge, Va, was
Chester Brown, %, a resident of
that town. Mr. Brown was sitting
on the railing of the bridge over
Occoquan Run when a convoy of
so trucks and guns of the 244th
Coast Artillery of New York City
approached.
Death Held Accidental.
One of the vehicles was forced to
sWerve toward the rail to avoid
an oncoming car. Mr.. Brown was
knocked over backward and was
removed to Alexandria Hospital,
where he died a short time later.
The driver of the Army vehicle was
allowed to continue after the cOrO-
ner had certified the death as acci-
dental
Thomas j. Reamy. 20. of COG
North Piedmont street. Arlington,
Va, was in critical condition at
Emergency Hospital today after an
accident near Marshall, Va. Two
other persons received minor i'll
juries.
Mr.. Reamy received a fractured
skull and fractured pelvis when the
car in which he was passenger left
the road on a curve. The driver of
the car, whose name was given as
Bob Lyons, %, of Arlington, and
Charles Tillets %. of Alexandria,
another passenger, also were treated
at Emergency for injuries.
William NJ Hills. ?. colored, of the
100 block of Florida avenue NV,
was in Children's Hospital with a
brain conclusion today after being
struck by an automobile near his
home.
Ike Charney, 43, of 436 Sixth street
NE, was treated at Freedmens s
Hospital last night for injuries re-
ceived in an accident at Eleventh
and w streets NV. His condition
was not considered serious.