Evening star., 1946-11-08
3 Bus Crashes,
Car Accidents
Hurt 3 Here
Injured Girl Lies
20Minutes in Roin
Awaiting Ambulance


Awaiting Ambulance
Fog and rain, which made pave
ments wet and slippery, were con-
causes in a series of traf-
fic accidents late yesterday after
noon and evening which resulted in
injuries to at least q persons.
Capital Transit buses, police said,
were involved in three accidents
one Of which resulted in injury to 13
people.
A 19-year-old girl, hit by a car.
lay on the pavement in the rain at
Eleventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV. for 20 minutes await
ing an ambulance She was shield
ed from the drizzle by a raincoat
and a newspaper held by a soldier.
Automobile Hits Bus.
The 13 were injured at Delaware
avenue and Canal street S.W. when.
according to police, an automobile
operated by Benjamin o. williams,
%, of Route 2, Vienna, Va.
into the side of a bus driven
by Alvah T. Snyder, As, of 1444 w
street Sc. Mr. Williams was charged
with colliding.
The seven injured bus passen-
gers, all treated at Providence Hos
pital and released, were listed by
police as:
Sidney Golden, 46, 1852 W street
Sc.
Louise Nance. colored, 81, 1852
Sumner road Sc.
Lillian Andrews, 81, 3oo3 Seventh
street Sc.
John w. Burkert, 80, $40 Newcomb
street Sc.
Mabel A. Smith, "a, Old Fort
road Sc.
Genev,eve M. Doherty, 81, 2s74
Second street Sc.
Prentice r. Bacon, 81, 45s New
comb street Sc.
Five in Car Are Hurt.
Injured in the automobile were
Williams. the driver, who incurred
cuts to the scalp, hands and face,
and the following passengers:
James Muse, "a, ass l. street S.W.,
possible skull fracture.
Miss Myrtle Hale, rs, Route 2,
Vienna.
Watson Kingsborough, 80, 1114
Howard road Sc.
Frank Gaskins, 26, Vienna
Odessa Williams, Is, l24 Virginia
avenue SW.
All were treated at Casualty Hos.
pital and released except Mr.. Muse.
The 19-year-old girl, Miss Theresa
Stirling, 5706 Marlboro pike, Hillside,
Md, was injured when an automo-
bile operated, police said, by Robert
r. Larson, 26, 1904 Vista street NE.
struck her and Myrle Corder, 81, Of
Arlington, who was only slightly
hurt.
Treated at Emergency Hospital.
Miss Stirling was treated for con.
cussion and neck injury at Emer-
gency Hospital, where she was taken
in a Fire Department ambulance,
other ambu1ances being unavailable
because of other injury calls.
+ Police charged Mr.. Larson with
failing to yield the right of way to
pedestrians in the crosswalk.
James T. Yates, 21, colored, 122
Sixteenth Sc, was injured in q
freak accident at Thirteenth and G
streets Sc. Police said Mr.. Yates,
a pedestrian, was about to cross
the street when Capital Transit
bus and a truck collided.
The truck Swerved with the force
OF the collision, the rear END strik-
ing Mr.. Yates who was treated for
head cuts and bruises at Casualty
Hospital.
Truck Driver Slightly Injured.
The truck driver, Edward S. Jones,
46, 1919 New Jersey avenue Sc,
who was only slightly hurt. The
BUS was driven, police said, by Ken
meth G. Longerbeam, n, 814 D
street NE.
Mrs. Bernice n. Jones, As, Route
2, Falls Church, Va, received possi-
BILE internal injuries when an auto
mobile she was driving collided
with bus at Thirty-tf1ird and @
streets NV, hurting the car over
the sidewalk and into the porch of q
house at 3215 @ street NV, knock
ing down lamp post on the way.
Also injured in the accident were
Mrs. Jones son Edward, 6, and a
Mrs. Mabelle Franklin,
so, Route 2, Falls Church.
The bus driver, police said, was
Edward Grifaths, jr., Is, all Eight
eenth street Sc.
Woman and Child Hit.
Mrs. Jessie Beales, so, 4421 Fifth
street NV, incurred compound
fractures of the right leg and right
arm and chest injuries when, police
reported, she was struck by an auto
mobile operated by Eldridge Morris.
80, 1861 Irving street NV, in the
1900 block of New Hampshire ave-
nue. NV.
Mrs. Beales is in serious condition
in Emergency Hospital
EThree-year-old Mary Reynolds,
Alexandria, suffered broken right
leg and Bessie Byrd, A, also of
Alexandria, received cuts and bruises
yesterday when struck by an auto
mobile while standing in . safety
zone at Washington and Gibbon
streets, Alexandria.
The child was admitted to the
Alexandria Hospital and the woman
was released after treatment. Both
are colored.
Truck Driver Is Held.
Alexandria police said the two
were hit when the car attempted to
pass to the left of truck which
had stopped for turn into Gibbon
street.
The driver, listed by police as
George T. Carper, So, Gold Dale,
Va, was charged with reckless driv-
ing and operating a vehicle with
faulty brakes. He was released tIn-
der $3.50 bond pending a hearing to-
day in Alexandra Police Court.
In another accident, the driver
of trailer-tr escaped injury aft
er the vehicle struck dump truck
parked on the Baltimore boulevard
at Laurel, Md, and skidded into the
Paddock Hotel, causing damage es-
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