Evening star., 1942-04-27
Traffic Takes
5liyes; Bus
Crash Kills ;
2o Others Hurt
Over Week End
In D. G. Area

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highways took one of the largest
week end tolls of the year.
Twenty persons were injured,
six seriously, In the head-on bus
crash near Halethorpe which proved
| fatal to Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Muir
ply of Jersey City and Gladys
Lemis. the latter colored, address
unknown.
Twelve of the slightly injured are
from the Washington area.
Other Traffic Victims.
Other traffic victims were:
Mrs. Mary Thomas, so, colored,
100 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 a
northbound National railways car
rier which colided with 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
5 miles on either side of the wreck
for almost two hours.
Treated at Hospitals.
Among the persons who were
treated at hospitals for minor
decorations, bruises and shock ana
then released. were:
Thomas Dambrauskas, l6-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; 1t.
E. j. .Schantz. 33, Edgewood, Md;
Mrs. Katherine Schantz, 81. Bel Air,
Md: Mrs. Anna Allen, 40, Hyatts-
Vile. Mrs. Sena Patton, 80, 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, "a. Ar
nngton; Mrs. H. l.. De Lauder, SO,
Of Arlington.
Bus Swerves From Lane.
According to Baltimore County
police, the Trailway bus had swerved
from the northbound lane to avoid
an automobile whcih had stopped
at the Ridge avenue intersection.
The Greyhound bus struck the
middle of the other ripping away
Nm side and part ofythe roof end
pwite. many of The Trafsw1ys
hl,s PASSENGERS out on the roadway,
wEhe 0f4 hound, seeking to avoid
acollision by cutting into the north
bound lane. according to police,
sideswiped a car before coming to
q halt a hundred feet from the
intersection. Wreckage was strewn
for several hundred feet each way.
The driver Of the car that was
sideswiped was said to have been
slightly injured but his identity
was not learned.
Raymond Murphy, 18-year- -old
son of two of the victims, was sit
ting in seat behind his parents
and was uninjured.
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 2400 block of Third street NE,
driver Of the National Trailways bus,
were charged with manslaughter
State police said.
A Norfolk (Va) Navy Yard sailor.
James E. Neathery, was hero of the
rescue work. He was q passenger
in a car following the southbound
bus, and after the crash. declared:
We'll, here's where l 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 SO passengers on the
TrailwayS bus and 81 on the Grey
hound.
Mrs. Thomas was killed in an acci-
dent in the $500 block of Rhode
Island avenue. Brentwood, Md,
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
pital in an undetermined condition.
Police listed the driver of the car
in the Brentwood accident as Eric
E. Cuslmie, colored, of 500 U street
NV. and charged him with man
slaughter.
Mr.. seymour, 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
Belvoir soldiers. were injured, but
not seriously, when two buses COL
lided at Tenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. early today.
Thomas F. Mccormick, "a, 2l14 First
street NV. driver of westbound
Capital Transit bus, suffered head
lacerations and was treated at Gar
field, police said. One of his passen-
gers, Gwendolyn G. Savage, 80,
/ l006 Sixteenth street NV, went to
Emergency with thigh contusions.
| The soldiers hurt were riding on
a southbound A. B. & w. bus. They
were listed as Charles F. WE'LL, "a;
Royal Linnentz, 20; Ausbon Mills,
%; Leo j. Morgan, %; Harry
De eFazio, IS, and William Gullifer,
3D. All were treated at Emergency
for lacerations and contusions.
Edward Butler, "a. of Colesville,
Nd, was in a critical condition at
the Washington Sanitarium and
Hospital with a possible skull frac-