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Eight Students Hurt
In Crash at Bridge;
Car, Cycle Collide


In the Washington area.
Eight of the injured are students
of Georgetown University and
Georgetown Visitation Convent
Junior College. who were hurt in
one crash. The injured included
Miss Catherine O. Connell, Is, daugh-
ter Of William B. O'Connell, pronni-
nent Washington attorney, who suf-
fered a spine fracture and possible
pelvis fracture.
The dead were Floyd Bolin, %,
Upper Marlboro, Md, and David
Elkins, Congress Heights, Md, ac-
cording to Prince Georges County
police.
MIR. Bolin died early today at
Prince Georges Hospital from in
juries received last night when his
motorcycle and an automobile
collided in the 7200 block of Cen
trail avenue, Capitol Heights, police
reported.
Car Runs of Highway.
Mr.. Elkins was killed instantly,
police said, when his car ran of
Route 224 mile south of Oxon
Hill, Md, last night. A passenger in
the automobile, Leonard Johnson, a
sailor stationed at the Anacostia
Naval Air Station, was treated at
Casualty Hospital for head injuries
and transferred to the Bethesda
Naval Hospital, where his condition
was said to be good.
The accident In which the eight
students were hurt occurred yester-
day about half-nile from Tyson's
Corner, Va, on Chain Bridge road,
when the automobile in which they
were riding skidded on the wet
pavement and struck a small bridge
abutment, Fairfax police reported.
-Four Of the injured still were in
hospital today, one Of them in
serious condition.
Mizell Wilson, jr., 20, George
town University student, who police
said was driving the car, was the
one whose condition was listed as
serious. Arlington Hospital attend
ants said Mr.. Wilson, of White
Plains, N. Y, underwent an opera
ton yesterday for ruptured blad-
der. He also is suffering from leg
fracture, they said.
Victims Condition Fair.
Miss Martha Ryan, 18, of 420l
Forty-fourth street NV, was said
to be in fair condition at George
town Hospital, where she is under
treatment for possible skull frac-
ture. She and the other girls in the
accident are students at Georgetown
Visitation Convent Junior College.
At Arlington Hospital, Miss Con-
stance Stephenson, Is, of Stock
bridge, Mass, and Miss O'Connell,
who lives at 1901 S street NV, were
listed in good condition. Miss Ste
prenson is suffering from left leg
fracture, deep cut under one eye
and other cuts. the hospital said. !,
The four other occupants of the
automobile were treated and re-
leased. They are:
Miss Edith Moses, 49, of 3819
Morrison street NV, bruises, Arl-
ington Hospital; John Leveroni, %,
Of Boston, who lives here at 1927
Belmont road NV, leg injuries,
Arlington Hospital; Thomas J.E!
Dolan, 81, Philadelphia, cuts on the
forehead, and Gerard Fleischert, 18,
Pittsburgh, cuts on the head, both
in Georgetown Hospital.
Arlington Driver Arrested.
William Windsor, 56, of oxford
street, Alexandria, was taken to
Alexandria hospital early yesterday
with skull fracture and cuts and
bruises after al. accident on Me-
mortal highway between Colling-
wood and Wellington Bridge. Park
police said they had arrested and
charged with reckless driving Robert
Lee Waterman, 20, of the 5000 block
of Wilson boulevard, Arlington,
driver OF the car which struck Mr..
Windsor.
Joseph F. Clark, SO, of the 400
block of Kennedy street NV, was
taken to Emergency Hospital yes
terday after being struck by a po-
liceman's motorcycle at Ninth street
and Massachusetts, avenue NV. He
was suffering from a fractured left
arm and head injuries. Pvt. Edward
G. Comingore, operator of the mo-
torcycle, said Mr.. Clark stepped into
the path of his machine. .