The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-11-10
Two Roanoke Residents Are Killed
10 Injured In Series OF Accidents
That Sweeps Over Farmville Area
Saturday Wreck
West of Town
Cuts Off Power

AS one hospital employee put it,
The ambulances have Just been
coming and going"
A Roanoke woman and girl
we're killed and ten people injured
IN series of accidents that swept
over the Farmville area Friday.
and Sunday.
The dead were Mrs. John George
Jones, A, of 1861 Hamilton Ter
race. Roanoke. and Nancy Ann
Olive. of 1859 Hamilton Terrace.
Mrs. Jones was killed instantly
IN the two-car head-on collision,
afternoon. on Route
400 about two miles west Of
Prospect. The girl was pronounced
dead on arrival at Southside
Community Hospital.
Injured
Also injured III the Prospect &C
cident were the dead girls mother.
Mrs. Corinne Gregory Olive. 81,
and brother, Robert CT. ?. pas
sengers in the car driven by Mrs.
Jones, and two Camp Pickett
soldiers, occupants of the second
car, Sgt. Willie Melvin Ingram.
43, Of 249 McEvans Circle. Lynch
burg, and Cpl. Elster NJ. McClana-
han. %. of Princeton, w Va.
Another daughter of Mrs. Olive,
Mary Katherine, 3, was an occu-
pant of Mrs. Jones car also. She
was not injured in the accident.
according to the Southside Com
munity Hospital.
Mrs Olive and the two Camp
Pickett soldiers were taken to
Camp Pickett Hospital after being
treated at Southside Community
Hospital.
Cars Demolished
State Trooper T. w. Garter
said the accident occurred about
$50 p. m. Saturday, on a Slight
curve Mrs. Jones. ne said. was
heading east on Route 400. The
soldiers car. driven by Sgt. Ing
ram, was headed west.
Trooper Carter said both cars
We're demolished. He added that
Mrs. Jones car was unable to be
recognized after the crash and
wreckers had to pick up most of
the car piece by piece.
The trooper said that the Roa-
nokers were headed for Longwood
College to visit Mrs Jones daugh-
ter, who is a student there, and
We're then planning to drive to
Victoria to visit a brother of Mrs.
Olive, Floyd Gregory
Mrs Olive suffered a fractured
jaw and injuries to her left wrist.
Her son had temple decorations.
Sgt. Ingram had a fractured arm
and head injuries, and Cpl. Nc
C'onahan had face and eye in
juries.
Second Accident
Two Farmville residents were
injured in a second accident about
10 p. m, Saturday, about half
mile west Of Farmville on Route
400.
Doris Wilmoth. 81, of Farm
vile, passenger in the car
driven by Kenneth Jones, %. Of
Farmville, was injured most ser
Iously. She suffered back injuries.
Her condition seems good" ac-
,ording to Southside Community
Hospital
Kenneth Jones was kept at the
hospital overnight for observation
and discharged Sunday morning.
Sheares Wire
Trooper Carter said the car
vent out of control. Tipped over
8 or 10 times, sheared off a
guide wire Of an electric light pole
and continued off the highway for
several hundred feet into a
swamp.
Electric current was off in
Farmville for about 80 minutes
after the Saturday night accident.
The scared off guide wire Tipped
over the lines and shorted out the
Two men were injured in Fri
5av accidents. They were Frank
Holzgrefe. so, of Glen Allen, and
Robert Flowers. 80, of Meherrin.
Mrs. Holzgrefe was brought to
Community Hospital
after his panel truck hit some
ice on Route go. west of Cumber-
land Court House, Friday after
noon. He suffered head injuries.
Mr.. Flowers was treated for
and shoulder injuries
IN an accident with his oil truck
on Route 800 about p. m. Sat
Irday. He was discharged Satur-
day.
Injured Pedestrian
Bagby Roberts. IS, of Rice. was
AIKEN to the hospital after he was
truck by car driven by Curly
COX. of Favmyille. at the corner
If Second and Main Streets,
1870 a. m, Saturday. Mr.. Roberts
'eceived head injuries in the
accident
A small airplane made an elner-
yency landing three miles south
If Rice on 400 about 9 p m. Sat-
irday However, no one was re-
Nnrted inlllred In the landing The