Evening star., 1941-08-11
Crashes Kill IS
In Maryland
And Virginia
D. 6. Youth Dies
After Accident
Coused by Blowout

Fifteen people were killed In
motor accidents over the week end
in Virginia and Maryland
One victim was a 19-year-old
Washington youth, John Stathes Of
1882 Eighth street NV, who died
in Emergency Hospital yesterday
after an accident a mile north Of
st. Inigoes, Md.
When the automobile in which he
was a passenger had tire blowout
Saturday, it hurtled into a culvert,
police said. The young mans pelvis
and both legs were broken. A
Leonardtown ambulance hurried
him to the hospital.
Five Virginians we're killed yes
terday when a Southern Railway
freight train crashed into their 1926
model automobile as they were bound
for Sunday school at Jasper, Lee
County, Va, the Associated Press
reported.
The dead of this accident were
ESmond L. Cousins. about SO, Sun
day school superintendent; Cora
Nell Kerns. IL; Beatrice Light, Is:
Estil higgins, IA, and Sadie Lee
Rhoton, Is.
Three other occupants of the car
escaped with minor injuries. A wit
ness said the auto stalled on the
railroad tracks at the top of steep
grade. with the front wheels across
one rail 1t was thrown so feet
into a corn field.
Freak Accident Fatal.
A freak accident took the life Of
Edgar L. johnson. about Al, Of
Alexandria, when the car he was
driving left the highway near Char
lottesville. State troopers said he
was thrown from the car; the vehicle
turned over, and its front wheels
landed on Mr.. Johnson, strangling
him.
Six colored persons were injured.
at least one of them seriously, in an
accident / mile south of Alexandria
on United States Route No. early
today. Anna Mae Davis, Is, of
1905 Fifteenth street NV. was un-
conscious from a head injury, pos
sibly a fractured skull, and Harold
Reynolds, %. a chauffeur, of 260l
| Thirty-first street NV. was suffer-
ing severe cuts and bruises. The
condition of Sergt. Floyd Miller OF
Fort Belvoir, and Thelma Jones, 2l,
Of 1108 Eighth street NV, and the
! occupants of the other machine,
James McDougal and Mrs. Annie L.
McDougal, both of Philadelphia, was
! undetermined. They we're admitted
to Alexandria Hospital for treat
ment.
Virginia Victims.
Other Virginia dead were:
Hattie Lee Smith, 8, OF Danvllle,
killed in a collision yesterday about
/ % miles southwest of Richmond.
Her mother and brother were criti-
cally injured.
j. w. Poe. 49, Navy enlisted
man attached to the U. S. S. Hani-
bal, killed when his motorcycle was
in a collision with an auto on Vir-
ginia Beach Boulevard yesterday.
Leonard Armentrout, "a, farmer
of near Harrisonburg, struck by an
| auto about miles north of that
town Saturday night.
Maryland Fatalities.
Further Maryland accident fatal
tiles we're:
Miss La Rue Whitehurst. 10. Of
Westminster. fatally injured in an
accident on the new Windsor-West-
minister road when the car in which
she was riding left the highway,
went over an embankment and
landed in a dry creek bed as she
returned from the Westminster
Riding Clubs horse show dance.
Roy Brown, %. also of Westmin-
ster, companion of Miss White
hurst, died of his injuries early to-
day. A third occupant of the car,
Oscar Hess, jr., %, also of West
minister, was injured slightly!
Mrs. Amelia L. Parsons, IS. of
West Ocean City, and Mrs. Lilly
Baden Truitt, SIS, Ocean City. killed
while walking across the Berlin
Ocean City highway late Saturday.
An 18-year-old youth later sur
rendered to police as driver of the
automobile which struck them.
Edward Foss, SO. of Baltimore,
hit by an auto while crossing a
street in that city.