Evening star., 1942-04-27
Five Killed in Area
Week-End Traffic:
Bus Crash Kills )
- Others Are Injured
ln Boulevard Accident;
Two Pedestrions Victims

Two Pedestrions Victims
Five persons were killed, three IL
q Baltimore boulevard bus crash
a. heavy Sunday traffic on Wash.
ingtor's streets and the surrounding
highways took one OF the largest
week end tolls OF the year.
Twcnty-nine persons were injured
six seriously. I'm the hesd-o bui
crash near Haiethorpe which proved
fatal TO Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Mur'
ply Of Jersey City and Gladya
Lemis, the latter colorcd, address
unknown.
Twelve Of the slightly injured are
from the Washington area.
Mr.. and Mrs. Murphy had been
In Warrington to watch their son,
Danny Murphy. Georgetown Uni
versity student. play baseball Sat
urday against Western Maryland.
They we're homeward bound and
were sitting In the bus at almost the
exact spot where the other vehicle
struck. On the seat behind them
was another son, Raymond Murphy,
10. who was uninjured.
Other Trafse Victims.
Other trafiic victims we're:
Mrs. Mary Thomas, 80, colored,
I0O block of Webster street NV.
John Seymour. 81, Of Accotink, Va.
In the bus crash, which occurred
late yesterday afternoon, most OF
the injured were passengers in q
northbound National railways car
rier which colnded with q south
bound Greyhound bus.
Ten ambulances were called into
service to carry the injured TO three
Baltimore hospitals. They were de-
layed by several hundred cars of
sightseers who drove to the scene
when news OF the crash quickly
spread. Cars were backed up for
miles on either side OF the wreck
for almost two hours.
Treated at Hospitals.
Among the persons who were
treated at hospitals for minor
lacerations, bruises and shock and
then released, were:
Thomas Dambrauskas, 16-month-
old son OF the Greyhound bus driver
Alphonsus Dambrauskas. IS, Of the
1900 block of Trinidad avenue NE,
who WAS not injured.
Daniel Gilman, Washington: It.
T.. j. Schantx. 80. Edgewood, Nd:
Mrs. Katherine Schantz, n, Bel Air,
ND; Mrs. Anna Allen, 20, Hyatts-
vile; Mrs. Sena Patton, SO, Seat
Pleasant, Miss Curtis Robertson, 20,
washington: Louis Charles, SO, Glen
Echo, Mrs. Bessie Moore, 80. WASH
ington; Mrs. Helen Magee. 26, Wash
ington; Mrs. Relea Madden, 81. Ar
lington: Mrs. H. L. De Lauder, 80,
Of Arlington.
Bus Swervcs From Lane.
According to Baltimore County
police, the Trailway bus had swerved
from the northbound lane to avoid
an automobile whcih had stopped
ut the Ridge avenue intersection.
The Greyhound bus struck the
middle Of the other. ripping away
the side and part Of the roof and
throwing mxhy of the railways
bus passepgerS, cut on, the roadway.
Tlsss0fesh hound, seeking to avoid
q collision by cutting into the north
bound lane, according to police,
sideswiped q car before coming to
. halt . hundred feet from. the
Intersection. wfeckage was sttewn
for severki hundre6' feet each way.
The driver of the ear that was
sideswiped was said to have been
slightly injured but his identity
was not learned.
Bus Drivers Held.
Neither of the drivers of the two
heavy vehicles was seriously hurt.
Mr.. Dambrauskas, the Greyhound
driver, and Howard K. Vail, IS, of
the 24oo block of Third street NE,
driver of the National railways bus,
were charged with manSlaughter,
State police said.
A Norfolk (Va) Navy Yard sailor,
James z. Neathery, was hero of the
rescue work. He was q passenger
In q car following the southbound
bus, and after the crash. declared:
well, here's where 60 to work" :"
He Jumped from the car and
started administering first aid. He
travelled back and forth between
the scene and hospitals on ambu-
lances for two hours before he col
lapsed from exhaustion.
There were 80 passengers on the
railways bus and 80 on the Grey
hound.
Mrs. Thomas was killed in an acci-
dent in the $500 block of Rhode
Island avenue, Brentwood, Nd,
when she was struck by an automo-
bile while crossing the road, police
reported. A companion, identified
by police as Kathleen Preston, As,
colored, first block of De Frees street
NV, received multiple abrasions
and was admitted to Casualty Hos
pitsl in an undetermined condition.
Police listed the driver of the car
in the Brentwood accident as Eric
z, Cuslmie, colored, of 500 U street
NV. and charged him with man
slaughter.
Mr.. Seymour. a carpenter, was
killed on the Washington Richmond
highway last night while crossing
the road. Police said an investiga-
ton would be conducted today by
the Fairfax County coroner. Mr..
Seymour lived with his daughter.
Mrs. Herman Sheppard, and the
body was taken to the Hall funeral
home at OccoQuan.
Downtown Bus Crash.
Eight persons, six Of them Fort
Belyoir soldiers. were injured, but
not seriously. when two buses COL
hded at Tenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. early today.
Thomas r. Mccormick. "a, ala First
street NV, driver Of westbound
Capital Transit bus, suffered head
decorations and was treated at Gar
held, police said. One of his passen-
gers, Gwendolyn G. Savage, 80,
zoos Sixteenth street NV. went to