Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-08-07
Trapped Driver
Dies in Flames
In Crash Here
Two Others Injured
As Truck CoIIides
With Oil Tanker

WIN VII UUNSI
One man was killed and two
others were hurt in a flaming
crash of two trucks yesterday at
Fifth street and Kansas avenue
NV. Heroic rescue efforts by
;hree men saved the injured.
Near Leesburg, Va, a 58-year-
Did man was killed instantly last
night when his auto was in coll
Iision with a tractor-trailer on
route IS.
The dead were:
Junior Arthur Hess, %, of 612
place. Seat Pleasant,
Md.
E. Jack Wallace of Petersburg,
Va.
Mr.. Hess died when his tractor
trailer was in collision with a fuel
oil tanker truck in the Fifth street
and Kansas avenue crash.
Gas Tank Exploded.
His body was charred beyond
recognition when a 50-ga'lon gas
oline tank on his truck exploded
and the truck caught fire.
Injured in that wreck were Os-
valid Harris, IS. of 1925 Florida
avenue NE, driver of the oil
tanker. and George F. Moore, So,
colored, Of 215 Florida avenue
NV. who was with Mr.. Hess in
the tractor trailer.
Mr.. Hess died despite efforts by
two Salvation Army officers to
rescue him. 1t. Phil Collier of
819 Quintana place NV. accom-
panied by Maj. Werner Vansyckle.
both of the Salvation Army's Har.
Dor Light Corps, first pulled MIR.
Moore to safety.
Driven Back BY Flames.
Then 1t. Collier ran to aid Mr..
Hess. He grasped the driver but
could not extricate him. The
flames drove him back from the
truck.
Mr.. Harris was wedged uncon-
scious in the cab of his truck, with
his legs pinned under the gear
shift. He was pulled to safety by
Harry Rosen, a restaurant owner
who lives at 1902 Kansas avenue
NV. near the scene Of the crash.
Mr.. Moore was in serious con-,
dition in Freedmen's Hospital with
chest and head injuries. Mr..
Harris condition was reported
good at Emergency Hospital. He
suffered conclusion.
damned Cab Into Truck.
The collision drove the tractor.
trailer against the curb with the
cab of the oil truck jammed
against it. Within seconds, the
tractor-trailer'S gasoline tank.
one of two, exploded and the
truck caught fire. Firemen ex-
the blaze in five min
uteS.
The death of Mr.. Hess brought
to 81 the number of trafflc
fatalities here this year, COM
pared with 80 at the same time
last year.
Head-On Collision.
Virginia State Trooper r. F.
Hoskins said Mr.. Wallace was
killed instantly when his auto coll
ided head-on with a tractor.
trailer miles south of Lees
ourg.
He said Mr.. Wallace was travel
ing north and lost control of his
car on a curve.
The truck driver, Leroy D. Pratt
Ter, Of Indianapolis, Ind, suffered
only slight injuries. Mr.. Wallace's
body was taken to the Slack fu.
neral home in Leesburg.
Arlington Boy Struck.
Charles Wallace Peters, S, Of
l721 North Quebec street, Arling-
ton, was in critical condition in
Arlington hospital today with in
iuries suffered when he was struck
oy a car yesterday.
Police said the boy rode his
tricycle. down the Quebec street
nil into the path of an auto
driven by Miss Lucy Blakeslee
Thwing, 10, of the $500 block Of.
North Nineteenth street, an en-
oloye of the Arlington Recreation
Department. The boy Is the son
Of Claude w. Peters, an Arlington
County zoning inspector.
4-Year-Old Injured.
Jeffrey L. Dargan, 4, colored,
Of "a I street NE, suffered a pos
sible skull fracture and cuts on
the face and shoulders when he
was struck by car last night.
Police said the boy darted from
between parked cars in front Of
MS home and into the path of a
car driven by George Crutchfield.
81, colored. Of 1921 Sixteenth
street NE. The boy was taken
TO Children's Hospital.
Traffic Victim Loses Foot.
A Washington man had his left
foot cut of and four other persons
we're injured in an accident in
volving two automobiles and a
military tractor trailer last night
IN U. s. Route /. four miles north
IT Dumfries, Va.
Harold Howard, %, colored, Of
he 100 block of Fifteenth street
Sc. was the victim who lost his
DOT. State police reported.
He was treated at Alexandria
hospital and transferred to Mount
Alto Veterans Hospital in Wash.
ngton.
The other injured were: Ray.
nond Howard, colored. Is, of the
90 block of Fifteenth street Sc;
George Withers. colored, Is, Of the
90 block Of Sixteenth street Sc:
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